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It's Quicken 2005. Every problem session with them ends with "must be admin".
It's hard to believe it's 2005 and they insist on this kind of security
exposure. Hasn't XP been out for more than a few months?
"Colin Nash [MVP]" wrote:
>
> "Davenk" <Davenk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:90ACDAFC-510C-4ABB-85D9-B97AC26BD2A9@microsoft.com...
> > Quicken requires the user to have admin rights. Is there a way to give one
> > user admin rights and also restrict them to using Quicken only - no other
> > programs or functions ?
>
> An administrator has complete control over the machine. You can fiddle with
> the interface a bit to hide some icons and so on, but in the end you won't
> be able to prevent them from doing anything that you can do.
>
> If this is an up-to-date, current version of Quicken then its a shame that
> Intuit cannot write their software properly. Maybe they have a patch
> availabe? (I do vaguely remember seeing something about an update for their
> QuickTax product to run as a limited user.)
>
>
> --
> Colin Nash
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
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