http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1254 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Programs and users en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:52:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1254#post-7175 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:11:29 +0000 BuBBy 7175@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This is just the way windows works. To oversimplify an explanation on how the registration database works, there are two levels of scope (actually there are more - but this will suffice to explain the concept).</p> <p>1. Private User Settings (HKCU)<br /> 2. Global System Settings (ie. All Users) (HKLM)</p> <p>In terms of permissions - users can read &#38; write only to #1 and can only read from #2. To write to #2 you must be an Admin.</p> <p>Most applications read and write to #1, as the user doesn't need Admin to install or run the program. The programs that you need to be Admin is because they write to #2.</p> <p>Each user account has their own #1 section. A user cannot normally see another users #1 section. (This is for example how each user can have have their own settings. eg Desktop Wallpaper)</p> <p>Therefore if an application writes preferences, activation details, settings to #1, when running the application as a different user - there will be a completely fresh (or empty) set of settings - so in this case the program may not know it was ever registered.</p> <p>So there is nothing wrong. It's just how the registry works. It has always worked that way. If you want to run a program from 3 user accounts - it will probably be necessary to activate the program from each account separately. (unless the program writes to #2 - then all users share the same settings). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1254#post-7165 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:33:20 +0000 pauloparra 7165@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>For some unknown reason (I'm in contact with Microsoft), the PC account that I was using to install and activate all the GAOTD software got screwed. The end result was that, even though I have created only four user accounts on my computer, now there are five user entries in "c:\\Documents and Settings". The extra account looks like a newly created account, but it has the same user name as the GAOTD account and its windows name is similar too. Also any attempt to logging to the account that I was using to install and register GAOTD programs, would open the user account that was magically created.</p> <p>Since the only change I had made to the computer was the installation of the Oronto Burning Kit, I uninstalled it and things went back to normal for a while. I was able to logging my real account. The big problem was that recovered account lost the ability to run GAOTD software as registered.</p> <p>I though that the account was not able to run the GAOTD software as registered because of the mess of having two accounts that are almost identical and that if I just use another admin account to run the GAOTD software I should be ok. Wrong!<br /> GAOTD programs seem to run only under the account that activated them and I don't understand why. Why can't I run the GAOTD software from a different admin account on the same computer on registered mode?</p> <p>Thanks<br /> -Mario</p> <p>PS: Backups don't seem to help as I haven't lost any files. I haven't been able to learn how to use system restore. </p>