Cutting a long story short.
 
Since Kodak image viewer wasn't included in WinXP, my users have been forced to use Image and Fax Viewer for a .tiff file that gets sent around our network weekly. The viewer is useless, it is incredibly slow (even on 500 Meg P4's) to open the images, and navigating them is both difficult and time consuming. I have found a way to get the original Win2k viewer running, by copying some .Dll's and OCX files, plus the application itself. even on a 233 P2 the difference is noticibly superior.
 
Now I need it to work on a users P4. The program runs fine, I can save and print etc, when I log on with my domain administrator rights I have no problem setting the kodak program up as the default viewer (which is my objective here) even local administrator rights are sufficient. However anyone with domain user associations cannot change the to program, Unless I give them sufficient rights to do so. I've tried changing the rights, setting up the machine and then changing the rights back again. whilst changed, everything is fine, as soon as I change the rights back, XP reverts to the original (crap) viewer, and I can no longer select the kodak program.
 
I've tried setting the kodak program to run as Admin.
 
I've tried to change the way the program runs with the built in apcompat settings
 
I'm losing my patience.
 
Is anyone aware of a security setting I can change on the local machine? bearing in mind that the server that this machine is attached to an NT 4.0 Server, and that the domain rules will most likely override security settings at logon.
 
Thanks in advance.