Run TI Home 2009 as User in XP Professional?
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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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.
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To clarify, if you run system clean up as an Administrator, it will destroy information under that profile only. All user data stay intact.
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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.
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