SE4 on XP Home with Limited Account

[Ed Kolis]

Hi all!
Anyone know if it's possible to play SE4 on Windows XP Home if you have only a Limited (non-adminstrator) account? I tried setting it up for my brother, but when he ended his turn, he got an error about not having permissions to access a file. I was going to change the permissions on the SE4 folder to let him write to it, but then I remembered that XP Home doesn't let you set individual folder permissions. Is there anything I can do to get around this? I thought maybe I could try moving SE4 out of the Program Files directory, since Windows is probably protecting that more than other places on the hard drive, but I haven't tried that yet... think that might work?

[Aiken]

I remember something about setting win9x emulation for particular binaries in XP. It should be somethere in .exe properties. This might help (or not).

personal opinion: never get involved with underOS.

[Colonel]

Two things that might work. First Check your internal security and file sharing next you could just install the game on every sn- on to the desktop of each

[Thermodyne]

Never had the pleasure [sic] of XP home, but check to see if you have the option of adding the account to the power user group. Or, you could build a shortcut to a script that would use the runas argument to launch the game.

[Ed Kolis]

Thanks, I'll give those suggestions a try tomorrow... grr, tried to upgrade the RAM on my family's computer today, too, but the manual says it only takes up to 128 MB chips and I bought a 256... stupid eMachines... or should I blame Micro Center, since their Online Memory Configurator told me it would work with a 256?

[Kana]

Using XP home...never had any problem what so ever...but all account on the machine are Admin so that might make a difference...

Kana

[Raging Deadstar]

Ed Kolis said:
Thanks, I'll give those suggestions a try tomorrow... grr, tried to upgrade the RAM on my family's computer today, too, but the manual says it only takes up to 128 MB chips and I bought a 256... stupid eMachines... or should I blame Micro Center, since their Online Memory Configurator told me it would work with a 256?

I'm Using an eMachine as well, It's about 2 years old and so far has 384mb RAM. It's been quite reliable. The only disadvantage is that some top spec games I'd like won't run on it. But hey, I'm not complaining, I got this Free!

Never Overestimate the Staff at your local PC SuperStore. "This Display PC Won't reformat..." "We'll have it....muhahahaha. Oh it seems to be an ID10T error..."

[Ruatha]

I think you've spelled the solution yourself.
Move it out from Program Files to a different directory and it should be solved.