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Run TI Home 2009 as User in XP Professional?

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Hi,
In addition to some other issues I am having, I can't seem to get TI Home 2009 to run in any of my user accounts. My set up is Windows XP Professional with 1 admin and 2 user accounts. I went in as admin and granted permissions to the users group but this did nothing.

If I log on to a user account and do a "runas" and launch the program, it comes up. I than run system clean up and nothing in that user account is deleted.

Is there a work around or am I just hosed on this? It seems that if the product will only work on the admin account you may want to warn consumers before hand.

Thanks.

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You can always use the Rescue CD to access the basic Backup, Clone, and Recovery features.

Good point if all I needed was the recovery functions. One of the main reasons I bought this was for the system clean up utility. I try to keep information, even the stuff I delete, as secure as possible.

Not working out so well in this case.

To clarify, if you run system clean up as an Administrator, it will destroy information under that profile only. All user data stay intact.

Acronis used to recommend adding the users to the "Backup Operators" group on their commercial products. I don't know if this is possible on non-domain machines.

The behavior you describe for System Cleanup sounds normal. If, for example, you run Windows XP Disk Cleanup, it will only clean the profile for the running user.

A workaround, if you like playing with scripting, is to download Mark Russinovitch's PS Tools from Microsoft. Using the tool PSExec you can log into another account and run a script as another user. This even works across a network to another PC.

I use this method to automate the weekly maintenance tasks on the various family member's PCs in the middle of the night.