Stupid Crappy Windows Admin Rights Moan Thread :(

MarkyMark · 1 Sep 2006 at 15:48

Ok basically all's I want to do is play Battle Front 2 as a normal user in XP Pro, but my windows box keeps insisting that I have to be logged in with admin rights just to play it

After a bit of research its listed by microsoft as one of many games that run this way. So, anyone got any idea of how to make it run under a normal user account?

Its frustrating the heck out of me now. What if you had kids with limited access. It means you would have to give them admin rights just to play a game :mad:

Cheers in advance

M0KUJ1N · 1 Sep 2006 at 15:56

Welcome to the world of the Windows sysadmin

It's a right PITA that in this day and age software houses continue to churn out badly-written applications that will only work if they have carte blanche access to your machine :|

There are ways around these sorts of issues but they can be a) time-consuming b) complex c) not guaranteed to solve the problem.

A good place to start would be to download Filemon and Regmon from www.sysinternals.com to see what the program is actually doing "behind the scenes". Then you have to poke holes in the access rights to files/registry entries that require admin rights to read/write to.

MarkyMark · 1 Sep 2006 at 16:05

M0KUJ1N said:
Welcome to the world of the Windows sysadmin It's a right PITA that in this day and age software houses continue to churn out badly-written applications that will only work if they have carte blanche access to your machine :|

There are ways around these sorts of issues but they can be a) time-consuming b) complex c) not guaranteed to solve the problem.

A good place to start would be to download Filemon and Regmon from www.sysinternals.com to see what the program is actually doing "behind the scenes". Then you have to poke holes in the access rights to files/registry entries that require admin rights to read/write to.

ohhh thanks very much. Ill have a poke around in there then

Burnsy2023 · 1 Sep 2006 at 16:36

A bodge approach would be to right click on the application exe and select run as. This will allow you to enter admin account credentials.

Burnsy

The_KiD · 1 Sep 2006 at 16:43

As M0kujin says, the only way to do it without admin rights, would be to find what files it is trying to change and then give your non admin account full permissions to those files.

You could always just do it to the whole directory.