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lheisey wrote:
> I have done as you asked. However, the installer still comes up. I
> notiiced the event viewer shows Office 2000SP1 as being the cause.
> HELP
I've done this successfully many times with Office in all versions. Did you
run all the apps once as the user, with that user in the local admin group?
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> lheisey wrote:
>>> I am installing a 3rd party time & attendance software. So what at
>>> this point can I do so the users can run the software without the
>>> installer coming up?
>>
>> See if temporarily granting the domain account local admin rights
>> helps - run it once, then take the rights away, have them log
>> out/log in, and try again.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, 1) complain loudly to the app mfr. about this
>> - it's lazy developers who don't understand that local users should
>> not have admin rights to *run* software and b) if that goes nowhere,
>> try FileMon and RegMon from www.sysinternals.com to see if you can
>> figure out what folders/regkeys the app needs write access to, and
>> tweak them.
>>
>>>
>>> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>>>
>>>> lheisey wrote:
>>>>> I don't understand Windows Installer. W2K workstation. I
>>>>> install upgrades to software as the administrator and then every
>>>>> time a user logs in and wants to run the upgraded software, the
>>>>> windows installer continues to come up. How can I do this
>>>>> different so that the installer stops popping up?
>>>>
>>>> It depends on what you're installing, really. With some apps
>>>> (particularly older versions of Office), I install as
>>>> administrator, temporarily grant the user local admin rights, run
>>>> it once, then take the rights away. What specifically are you
>>>> havng problems with installing?
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