Multi User Problem

Multiple Accounts under XP Pro

Published on October 13, 2005 By Artifact85 In WindowBlinds

Finally got WB5 loaded and working with the help of support.

Now, after logging onto my wife's account, I see she does not have WB available.

Older versions had a patch for multi users but I thought that wasn't necessary anymore.
4.6 showed up on her account fine.

Any suggestions?

Comments

Bichur

on Oct 13, 2005

Is her account admin or limited?

Artifact85

on Oct 13, 2005

She's admin, so should have rights

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Bichur

on Oct 13, 2005

she had WB before, yes?

Artifact85

on Oct 14, 2005

Yes, when I had 4.6 loaded, she had it on her account, fully functional.

milksama

on Oct 14, 2005

This is a known feature not included yet in the Windowblinds 5 Beta; it is currently only set up for a single user.

You might be able to work around this if you run WBload.exe (located in C:\program files\stardock\object desktop\windowblinds) prior to running Windowblinds.

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

Black Xero

on Oct 14, 2005

I think there can be another method:

WinXP has an incluede utility to set permissions for files access control called "cacls"

copy this file from \windows\system32\ and paste in your WB dir ...

then run it with these perameters: /E /T /G USERS:F

CACLS filename [/T] [/E] [/C] [/G user:perm] [/R user [...]]
[/P user:perm [...]] [/D user [...]]
filename Displays ACLs.
/T Changes ACLs of specified files in
the current directory and all subdirectories.
/E Edit ACL instead of replacing it.
/C Continue on access denied errors.
/G user:perm Grant specified user access rights.
Perm can be: R Read
W Write
C Change (write)
F Full control
/R user Revoke specified user's access rights (only valid with /E).
/P user:perm Replace specified user's access rights.
Perm can be: N None
R Read
W Write
C Change (write)
F Full control
/D user Deny specified user access.
Wildcards can be used to specify more that one file in a command.
You can specify more than one user in a command.

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