SO7, Windows XP Home
Hans Werner Strube
for users without administrator rights. Namely, the file types (endings,
icons) are not settable. If the user is temporarily given administrator
rights before SO7 installation, the file types are set, but after removing
the administrator rights again, the settings are gone!
Further, while doing a Workstation Installation with administrator rights,
the setup program asks for overwriting C:\WINDOWS\fonts\ariblk.ttf . This
is strange, since a user's Workstation Installation should not make such
global changes to the system; if at all, this should be done during the
preceding setup -net installation.
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Hans Werner Strube str...@physik3.gwdg.XPAM.de (remove .XPAM)
Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Univ. Goettingen
Buergerstr. 42-44, 37073 Goettingen, Germany
Hans Werner Strube
> On Windows XP Home, there is a difficulty with a Workstation Installation
> for users without administrator rights. Namely, the file types (endings,
> icons) are not settable. If the user is temporarily given administrator
> rights before SO7 installation, the file types are set, but after removing
> the administrator rights again, the settings are gone!
When I restored administrator rights, the settings were active again.
Looking into the registry with regedit, I found the reason for this
behavior. The entry HKEY_USERS/<my-user-classid>_Classes (which contains
the filetype settings) had access settings for administrators, system,
and an unknown user S-1-5-21-1409082233-.... (not resembling any other
user classids), but not for me! I then added access for
<hostname>/<my user name> manually, and everything now works.
Maybe the mentioned unknown user does not exist in XP Home but only in
XP Professional??