MAC,
Thanks for the info on DMR, I'd not come across it before - it might have useful applications in my corporate world too.
For others interested, here's a link to the
MSDN DropMyRights article
RunAs is fine if it's a solo machine, but many games store user info and game score in the currently logged on profile - not all of them create an internal database of players. If you have several kids doing games then all the preferences and scores get all mixed up.
- Not a problem for me, as both boys log on to the same account.
And running anything "as" Administrator means that everything gets written into the Administrators document folder rather than yours.
This may be true - I haven't noticed it myself - but the boys aren't complaining (yet).
I find that the way that works best is NEVER to use the autorun install, but to run the game SETUP.EXE as admin (while logged in as normal user), then create a shortcut with "run as" for the game once installed.
Copes with everything the 7 and 10 year old have wanted to run - so far!
I also recommend VirtualCD or similar, especially for younger kids - why bother with the hassles of physical CDs if you don't have to? I find that about 30% of games will install if simply copied to the hard disk, and a further 50-60% will work with V-CD. That just leaves 10-20% where you have to physically put a CD in the drive.
And yes, I know you call it root, or SU
