You mean a program that is launched from the startup group or something that is in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run? ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Farrugia, Paul Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:02 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: User rights and applications Thanks for the responses.... There are actually 2 programs that aren't running correctly unless the user has admin rights. One program actually runs at startup and when the user logs in they get a few pop up errors. If I do set the programs to run as administrator is there a way to apply that change permanently? The only way I know how to do it is to right click the application and select Run as....but from what I've seen the settings reset at log off. Regarding the regmon /filemon/acl methods....how can I get regmon and filemon to scan programs that run on start up? -----Original Message----- From: Monroe, Frank [mailto:Frank.Monroe@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 11:25 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: User rights and applications I usually use regmon and filemon to find out where the failure is then twak the ACL's. We don't give admin or power users out to anyone. ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Herchenbach, Jim Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 5:18 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: User rights and applications You can always make those few programs run as administrator, or would that be too much set up time involved. JIM HERCHENBACH RVW Inc. ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Farrugia, Paul Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 2:41 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] User rights and applications Hello, Has anyone run into problems with programs not running properly on XP workstations when a user is given Power user privileges? If you change the local privileges to Administrator then the program runs fine. What do most of you do in these situations.....give the user admin rights? Is there another way around this? Thanks in advance, Paul