Phil Cook wrote:
> Yeah worked well with XP; people are people. If you told someone they 
> should run as a LUser, but some of their programmes might not 
> work/install

The real problem is the vast numbers of specialized crap programs out 
there written by people who don't know what they're doing (i.e., experts 
in what they're doing rather than experts in programming).

Ten years later, it really should be normal for people to be writing 
software that runs as a normal user even if it installs as administrator.

I have a program that tracks real estate. It has a per-machine license 
key that it stores in the per-user registry ("because it's a per-user 
license. And it would break too much to fix it"[*]). Which means you 
cannot install it as administrator and then run it as a normal user. You 
have to run it as the same user that installed it. This is a 
multi-thousand-dollar program, too. But it was written by a goob who 
doesn't understand even the basics of writing usable programs, let alone 
advanced stuff like installers.

> The latest wonder is that Media Player won't start unless "run as" 
> Administrator, doing a search reveals others with this problem and the 
> curernt solution is to unistall any 'suspect' media players. 

So why blame Media Player? Why not blame the people who can't even write 
a codec that works without admin privs? :-)


([*] Don't you love people who argue "It isn't broken. Besides, it's too 
hard to fix."  Sorry I didn't call you back. I didn't get your voice 
mail. And you didn't leave your phone number on the voice mail.)
-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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