Jon Tydda
Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk
Mon Aug 2 06:15:41 CDT 2004
Yeah, I've seen some where it asks: Install for all users or current user (username)? Jon -----Original Message----- From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk] Sent: 02 August 2004 12:13 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] W2K Setup & Admin Principles Thanks Jon So are you saying that the way a piece of software installs (to current user or all users) depends on the authors of that software? That there's nothing I can do at installation time to affect that? Because Office 97 definitely installs only to the current user. -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk --------- Original Message -------- From: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] W2K Setup & Admin Principles Date: 02/08/04 11:06 > > If you install something as the admin, you should be able to see and use it > as all other users unless it specifies not to in the set-up, so yes, copying > the shortcut will work (usually). Normally the software will install to the > "all users" part of documents and settings/start menu, so you won't need to > do that. > > I don't know about Norton, except that I don't use it. I've never had any > problem with McAfee and multiple users on the same box though. > > You can right click on the desktop, turn active desktop on and remove all > icons from the screen, or you can do it via Active Directory (don't know > where though, I imagine it's part of the security settings). > > HTH > > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk] > Sent: 02 August 2004 11:03 > To: Dba Tech > Subject: [dba-Tech] W2K Setup & Admin Principles > > > This must be trivial for anyone with W2K admin experience, but I'm coming to > it for first time so some help would be hugely appreciated. > > What we want to achieve is commonplace. A workstation with an admin level > user and an ordinary (or power) user who can run software but not get at > setup functionality. Simply put, what is the standard way of achieving this? > Let's take our first software, Office 97. If I load it as Admin then only > Admin can see it to run it. Is there something I can do to make it load for > All Users? Or do I have to make my user an admin temporarily and load it a > 2nd time for them? Surely not. Or do I just copy the shortcut to the All > Users desktop? Will that really work? Doesn't sound the 'proper' way to me. > There must be, I'm certain, a straightforward, simple and correct way to > achieve this. > > Certain software throws up specific problems, again probably because I'm > going about this wrong. Take Norton AV. I load that under Admin and it runs > fine. I download the latest virus defs and run the downloaded EXE and it > does the business. Now I logon as my user account, but if I then try to > update the virus defs I'm told the subscription has expired. What's that all > about? > > And what does one use to make things like 'My Computer' disappear from a > user's desktop, or 'Control Panel' disappear from the start menu? To really > achieve a tightly stripped down UI in other words. Do you guys still use > TweakUI for things like that, or is there an in-built mechanism? And is > TweakUI ok in a multiple user setting anyway? > > Does anyone have the answers to this lot? And can anyone recommend good > on-line resources where I can read up and improve my knowledge (shouldn't be > difficult!) of this stuff. Because I've never been called upon before to do > this kind of thing I've sort of muddled through when I've needed to do > anything, but now I need to know more. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > -- > Andy Lacey > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk > > > > > ________________________________________________ > Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally > privileged. 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