HELP Visio won't open in any profile except for ADMIN in WIN2k ProF! Please or I'll get fired!

[TwoMix]

Hey guys, I have a win 2k prof. sp 2 machine, and I installed visio 2000 standard on as administrator. But when i loggin in as any other profile, w/ or w/o admin rights, visio startsup and goes into updating files but it hangs at 80& and another pop up comes up saying starting installer. I tried reinstalling as another loggin name, giving domain and local rights, but visio wont start in anything except the administrator account i installed it on.

Also I can't start netscape 4.5 on any loggin names w/o admin acess...it goes thru the new profile setup but then says read error or somehting.

Please help me! Im gonna get fired! thanks guys.

 

[The Stigenator]

sounds like something fscked with the policies..

try giving the other user admin rights and see if it works.

otherwise try another system.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Sorry to hear you lost your position.

 

[TwoMix]

haha i didnt get fired yet.....yea i tried a domain account w/ admin rights, but only the local administrator account works. policies you say???

 

[bmacd]

haha...i'm not thread crapping on you, but you didn't think to check the policies? Surely you're not the network admin, otherwise, they're in some trouble.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Czar]

This is a known issue, ran into this last year when I was working for a software company, I just had to give the users administrator priviliages by adding them to the administrator group for that computer.

You definetly should not be fired for this, has nothing to do with you or what you can do, its a problem with visio.

Try giving them administrator rights, run the program once, close it, remove administrator rights and try again, it might work.

 

[Hammer]

tell your boss its "working as designed"

 

[TwoMix]

Thanks guys.....no im not the network admin just a lowly intern...im not gonna get fired..i just needed some help. Ill try this again! I already tried ur advice Czar (thanks) but that didnt help. Its like only the local admin can access Visio. Other loggin names w/ domain admin rights can't start visio.
Is netscape 4.5 plagued with this kinda problem 2???

 

[Czar]

hmm it should work

right click my computer / manage / local users and groups / groups / click administrator / click add / then add the network users who is supposed to get admin rights

worked in my case

 

[Wizkid]

"domain admin" rights is not necessarily enough. You must do what Czar suggested.

 

[MadRat]

All programs that require registry entries are plagued with this FEATURE.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Czar
This is a known issue, ran into this last year when I was working for a software company, I just had to give the users administrator priviliages by adding them to the administrator group for that computer.

You definetly should not be fired for this, has nothing to do with you or what you can do, its a problem with visio.

Try giving them administrator rights, run the program once, close it, remove administrator rights and try again, it might work.

Yeah....Office 2000 has a similar issue.

 

[MadRat]

What it probably was concerns how Microsoft implemented the 32-bit registry and its security. Until you add entries as an admin you cannot set the security levels. This complicates installing software on all NT and beyond machines. The easiest workaround in NT4.0 is to script an autoinstaller that switch-user's to an admin account and simply add the registry entries, being that they add to the current user. Win2k and XP are aware of the switch-user and actually disassociate new entries with the ex-user and add them to the admin accounts rather than the non-admin user. Microsoft really never made an easy workaround for this behavior in Win2k or XP.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

[sarcasm mode]
Well, Microsoft just worked on security for a month, so they must have fixed this in the latest patches, right? Right??
[/sarcasm mode]

Edit: P.S. Ask Ameesh.