DiabloII only working under Administrator account.
I have DiabloII installed just fine. Can play just fine, but only under adminstrator accounts. Problem isn't for me though, problem is for my family members, who are only members of the users group. I get errors about not being able to detect the CD in the drive, but it obviously can see the CD, since the auto-run ...
I have DiabloII installed just fine. Can play just fine, but only under adminstrator accounts. Problem isn't for me though, problem is for my family members, who are only members of the users group. I get errors about not being able to detect the CD in the drive, but it obviously can see the CD, since the auto-run works just fine, and I can browse its content with out trouble.
Anyone know what's up with this? I'd prefer not to promote all my family member's accounts to Administrators just for a game.
Thanks,
-bzj
Anyone know what's up with this? I'd prefer not to promote all my family member's accounts to Administrators just for a game.
Thanks,
-bzj
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hey man,
well, Diablo 2 requires administrative rights to play under windows 2000. says right on the box if you want to look.
darrylzero
well, Diablo 2 requires administrative rights to play under windows 2000. says right on the box if you want to look.
darrylzero
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The game creates two main keys in the registry (besides the uninstall one) one under HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Blizzard Entertainment and another one under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ->Blizzard Entertainment.
Make that:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Blizzard Entertainment
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Blizzard Entertainment
The game creates two main keys in the registry (besides the uninstall one) one under HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Blizzard Entertainment and another one under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ->Blizzard Entertainment.
Make that:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Blizzard Entertainment
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Blizzard Entertainment
Assign your brother's account Administrator rights. Then go through the NTFS security and Local Policy Settings and remove/deny him access where appropriate. This leave the you administrators group and Administrator account in tact, but limit his capabilities. You may want to create a group to place his account in, just in case you want to use these same security settings for other accounts.
I am only going to say this based on what other people here have said with regards to D2; regarding the creation of keys.
IF THIS is the case then..it is relatively simple.
Give your brother ADMIN rights (wait till i finish)
Log in as him ...play diablo2 ...that should create the keys
quit game.
log off ..remove his admin rights and IF d2 works that way
it should then find the keys next time..provided it does not modify anything else.
I have not tried this since i am the only one on my computer.
IF THIS is the case then..it is relatively simple.
Give your brother ADMIN rights (wait till i finish)
Log in as him ...play diablo2 ...that should create the keys
quit game.
log off ..remove his admin rights and IF d2 works that way
it should then find the keys next time..provided it does not modify anything else.
I have not tried this since i am the only one on my computer.
well,
been tried to allow a user account to run diablo 2, giving the account full control over battle.net and blizzard keys. i'm getting cannot find cd-rom messages when trying to run the game. anyone else have better luck?
darrylzero
been tried to allow a user account to run diablo 2, giving the account full control over battle.net and blizzard keys. i'm getting cannot find cd-rom messages when trying to run the game. anyone else have better luck?
darrylzero
