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How to give write permission to a specific file/folder to a limited XP user?

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Hi! I'm the admin on my Win XP machine and my kid has a limited user account. Sometimes she can't save a game due to her limited account restrictions. I got around this problem by starting the game as an admin (right-click trick) within her limited user account and the game save/work fine. It's getting a bit annoying now since they're more and more games and programs that can't save certain files. Without giving her admin rights, is there a better workaround?

Thank you.
 
You could try setting your kid up as a Power User. This will give her more rights to install and run programs, but wont allow access to changing the system settings.

Now I don't know whether your on XP Pro or Home, but I'm gonna guess that you can do this in Home as well.

Go to Start - Run - Type "Control Userpasswords2" (no quotes) in the box. This should open the User Accounts applet.

Select your kid's account and go to Properties - Group Membership, and select Standard user, which is the Power Users group.

Now she should be able to run her programs without having the luxury of being an Administrator.

Also, I believe that if you have XP Home and go into Safe Mode, you can set NTFS permissions from there as well if it helps.

Unfortunately, I've never really used XP Home, so forgive me if any of these instructions are misleading.
 
If at all possible I would try and avoid giving her power user rights. Users can still do considerable damage to a system running with power user rights. For example I've got a good number users that use software which wont run unless they are power users. Quite a few of them have managed to muck up their computers with spyware/adware that they wouldnt have otherwise been able to do if they had just been users.

If you are running XP Pro than I would modify the ACL for the required folder(s) as was suggested by PorBleemo. If you're running XP home there are still other things you could do, such as creating a FAT32 partition for her to save her games on.

Elevate privilages with caution.
 
Unfortunately I'm running XP Home (NTFS). Is there any way to turn on the securty tab?

Any suggestion appreciated.
 
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