Program Access by User Account

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I'm a new XP Home SP2 user. 2 questions:

1. Is there a way to limit access to a program based on a user account?
Example, I would rather not even allow access to Quicken for my kids accounts.

2. When I install some programs using the administrator account, the
programs try to run when limited accounts are used...an can't because they
don't seem to have full access to program. How can I avoid this?

 

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Hi StarFord,

Please read: http://rickrogers.org/xpsware.htm, it should help answer those
questions.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"StarFord" <StarFord@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7239DD77-77AA-4A04-BA80-D8CE125CF802@microsoft.com...
> I'm a new XP Home SP2 user. 2 questions:
>
> 1. Is there a way to limit access to a program based on a user account?
> Example, I would rather not even allow access to Quicken for my kids
> accounts.
>
> 2. When I install some programs using the administrator account, the
> programs try to run when limited accounts are used...an can't because they
> don't seem to have full access to program. How can I avoid this?

 

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I've been looking into this myself but have XP Pro. I don't know if this
will work with XP Home.

I've disabled simple file sharing and set the properties of the application
(right click the .exe file) to add a particular User Account then set the
access capability of the User Account to deny all access to the .exe. I
hope I've explained it - it seems to work for me.

Fingers crossed that it'll work for you on XP Home.

"StarFord" <StarFord@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7239DD77-77AA-4A04-BA80-D8CE125CF802@microsoft.com...
> I'm a new XP Home SP2 user. 2 questions:
>
> 1. Is there a way to limit access to a program based on a user account?
> Example, I would rather not even allow access to Quicken for my kids
> accounts.
>
> 2. When I install some programs using the administrator account, the
> programs try to run when limited accounts are used...an can't because they
> don't seem to have full access to program. How can I avoid this?