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Xilren's Twin
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on: September 27, 2007, 03:29:17 PM

I resubbed to CoX for my kids, and when trying to have them play i find out you cannot run Cox unless you are an Admin user on the PC?!?  This is only game I have run into this issue with.

If i to the "run as" my admin user on their shortcut it will work, once.

Does anyone know how to get around this? 

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Glazius
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Reply #1 on: September 28, 2007, 06:59:08 AM

I can play it as a non-admin just fine.

I think you might need to temporarily promote them to admin so the game can install under their user preferences, but after that they can run as a user.
Xilren's Twin
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Reply #2 on: September 28, 2007, 03:45:31 PM

My first thought was "But wouldn't that mean every non admin user has to have their own full install?" which would be assinine if true.  I'll give it shot and see what happens.

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Alkiera
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Reply #3 on: September 28, 2007, 08:32:21 PM

The launcher sets a whole bunch of stuff in the registry, and it's probably on a per-user basis, rather than per-machine (kinda dumb, yeah).  Might, tho, let you have different resolution preferences on a per-user basis.

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