Fix needed for Simple Viewer's requirement for administrator account to run

[RPF]

This is really and XP Pro question, not a camera question per se, but I figure that a few of you might own a computer:rolleyes:.

My XP Pro computer is set up with an Admin account and two user accounts that do not have administrator privileges. Software (and Simple Viewer is no exception) has to be installed in an account with administrator privileges. When I attempt to open it from a user account a notice pops up that I can't run it from an account that doesn't have "administrator permissions". So, I have to right click on the desktop icon for Simple Viewer and use the "Run as.." option. I find this very inconvenient, but it causes my lovely wife to use really inappropriate "computer language" when she has to go through all these additional steps just to review her photos.

Any ideas on how to fix this so the program will start from a user account? (I have other image viewing software on the computer, but it won't display the Panasonic camera mode for a given shot).

Thanks,
RPF

[dev]

Give her administrator privileges.

[RPF]

Giving my wife's account user privileges would defeat the whole purpose of User accounts, which is security. MY account is a User account. I log onto the Adminsitrator account only to install software.

Most "Top Ten" lists of ways to secure your XP PC will include NOT running from the Administrator account. Very few people go to the trouble (XP doesn't make it easy, of course) of doing this, and fewer still know how to go about it.

I've never installed software or updates from the Administrator account that failed to then run in the User accounts. Panasonic has managed to screw this up somehow.

RPF

[dev]

I didn't know about the security aspect of accounts. Interesting.
I originally set mine up with myself and my wife as admins and my kid as a user. Within a day he was complaining that he couldn't play his games on his account.
Since then we have had 3 administrators.

[RPF]

dev,

If you're running behind a router and keep your anti-virus and spyware subscriptions/definitions up to date, this business of user accounts is probably a "belt and suspenders" approach to security. I'm just geeky enough to want to fiddle with it. I also disable the default Guest account (highly recommended) and create a "Visitor" User account with the password displayed near the computer so that the grandkids (or any company) can log on without me feeling like I'm in danger of having my computer security compromised by what they're doing.

Undisirregardless, as it were, so to speak, if I had a kid that was a gamer I'd buy or build him his own computer. I've heard that gamer sites on the Inet are more risky than a lot of the Inet in terms of exposure to spyware and viruses. I'd also want to install one of them there prenatal control programs....or maybe that's parental control...

RPF