Program authorisation Win 7

Admiral Huddy · 13 Mar 2013 at 18:58

What determines if a program requires an admin password?

I have installed an old game for younger son who's account is basic but it requires admin password each time. I've changed the properties of the shortcut so it it runs as admin and changed the authorities of the permissions of .exe to full rights for the user but it still requires a password.

Anyway round this?

marc2003 · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:04

it's probably trying to create files where it's not supposed to. if you installed it to program files, it might be trying to create it's own config files there. windows won't allow that because these days, application settings are supposed to be stored in your user profile.

you could try installing it in an alternative location.

Admiral Huddy · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:26

Cheers for the reply

I have, it's a seperate gaming partition.

marc2003 · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:35

not sure then. you could try running process monitor to see what it's trying to do when you start it. but even if you do get information back from it, i'm not sure if there is much you could do about it.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

edit: forgot to say, what rights does the limited user have on your games drive? it might be worth delving in the properties of the game folder and giving them full permissions (or at least create/modify if not full).

theheyes · 13 Mar 2013 at 20:17

It's a combination of things. An appropriate entry in the manifest is the first giveaway but older executable files won't specify. Beyond that I'm pretty sure Windows does some heuristic analysis, even as crude as looking at the filename, and will err on the side of asking for credentials if it's not sure.

Antar Bolaeisk · 13 Mar 2013 at 20:34

You could try this so you wouldn't have to enter the password each time:

http://www.howtogeek.com/124087/how...ard-user-run-an-application-as-administrator/

It can open up a bit of a security hole though if the kid is knowledgeable enough but it's not that big a deal seen as you can get around the Windows passwords trivially enough anyway.

Admiral Huddy · 14 Mar 2013 at 09:06

Antar, that's exactly what i need and for the same reason - cheers buddy

Interestingly enough, I did install and reinstall the game to the same directory but the second time it didn't request an admin password. So theheyes is right, some thing during the first installation decided it needed it.

However, it seems the game doesn't same the check points correctly. So again I'm assuming it's privileges.

I'll certainly give that a go tonight and report back.

edit - I wonder if I can substitute "Administrator" with my user profile name in the savecred, as I'm setup as an admin?

Antar Bolaeisk · 14 Mar 2013 at 18:45

Admiral Huddy said:
edit - I wonder if I can substitute "Administrator" with my user profile name in the savecred, as I'm setup as an admin?

Can't see why it wouldn't work.