Guest David Thielen Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 Hi; We have a problem where one of our customers has installed our software which is an AddIn to Microsoft Office. The registry entries that tell Word where to find this AddIn cannot be accessed by any user, even when the user logs in as administrator and and does a RunAs as the administrator. He is not on a domain and got his computer from BestBuy where they "optimized" Vista for him. One interesting thing - his account has no password and it will not let him set a password (an interesting approach to security). Any ideas? thanks - dave david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 "David Thielen" <thielen@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:cue5s49k5rf2iakal3lsnvd1qf6ep6dhb7@4ax.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Hi; > > We have a problem where one of our customers has installed our > software which is an AddIn to Microsoft Office. The registry entries > that tell Word where to find this AddIn cannot be accessed by any > user, even when the user logs in as administrator and and does a RunAs > as the administrator. > > He is not on a domain and got his computer from BestBuy where they > "optimized" Vista for him. One interesting thing - his account has no > password and it will not let him set a password (an interesting > approach to security).</span> Yeah. Allow users to log on easily, but don't let them do anything once there. style_emoticons/) Often when sufficient user rights seem insufficient on Vista, it is the integrity mechanism at work. Mandatory Integrity Control or Windows Integrity Control (MIC/WIC). Quote
Guest David Thielen Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 ps - this is Vista Home Premium. Is there something special we need to do in our installer when setting registry values? thanks - dave On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:44:35 -0600, David Thielen <thielen@nospam.nospam> wrote: <span style="color:blue"> >Hi; > >We have a problem where one of our customers has installed our >software which is an AddIn to Microsoft Office. The registry entries >that tell Word where to find this AddIn cannot be accessed by any >user, even when the user logs in as administrator and and does a RunAs >as the administrator. > >He is not on a domain and got his computer from BestBuy where they >"optimized" Vista for him. One interesting thing - his account has no >password and it will not let him set a password (an interesting >approach to security). > >Any ideas? > >thanks - dave > >david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net >Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com >me -- http://dave.thielen.com > >Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm</span> david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm Quote
Guest MBUnit Posted March 20, 2009 Posted March 20, 2009 David Thielen wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > ps - this is Vista Home Premium. Is there something special we need to > do in our installer when setting registry values? > > thanks - dave > </span> http://www.randem.com/vistainstalls.html http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3695651 Quote
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