Getting games to run as limited user?

[Salvador]

I'm new to running my pc as an admin and limited user. What do you guys do to run games in limited user accounts?

 

[mechBgon]

Here are my suggestions: http://www.mechbgon.com/build/LimitedSW.html

If they won't cooperate despite those measures, then I'll right-click the game shortcut while holding the Shift key, choose Run As... from the menu, and run it using an Admin account.

If that gets tiresome, then if you happen to have WinXP Professional Edition, you can make a custom shortcut that auto-launches the game using a different user account. The catch is that the different user account does have to have a password, it can't be a blank password.

Here's a pic of a shortcut like I describe in the steps below below: pic of shortcut where superuser is my Admin account, and user is my Limited account.

1) find a shortcut to the game or other program, and drag a copy of the shortcut to your desktop or wherever you want it

2) right-click the shortcut and choose Properties

3) in the Target: box, go to the beginning of the line and add runas /user:<admin account's user name here> /savecred ahead of the stuff that was in the box already.

4) in the Start in: box, change the location to somewhere that your Limited account has full access to, such as your C:\Documents and Settings\<Limited account's user name here> folder.

5) hit Change icon and re-specify the icon you want, and you may want to change the label on the icon so you can tell it runs at Admin level.

Now it will ask you once for the password to the user account you specified, and from then on, when you use that particular shortcut, it will run as that other user automagically.

On my Limited account's desktop, I have "Run IE as superuser" and "Run CMD as superuser" icons to allow me to do Admin-level work from within my Limited account.

This also can be used to lower a program's rights. On my Admin account, I have a "Run IE as user" icon that runs IE with my Limited account's credentials, so I can browse fairly securely even when I'm on my Admin account (which is seldom).

Again, the /savecred option is only found on WinXP Professional, not Home

 

[Salvador]

mechBgon to the rescue again! Thanks!

I installed the software as the admin on the admin account and I can't see the game in programs in the limited accounts even if I temporarily give the limited accounts administrator status.

I'm going to have to try your suggestions and see if I can get it to work.

Thanks again for the response!

Sal