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    You gotta be kidding me...(painful software installation experience)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by booboo12, Dec 26, 2007.

  1. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    Seriously? A computer software product designed explicitly for young/tween age kids MUST run in an administrator level Windows XP user account? I'm talking about U.B. Funkeys. http://www.ubfunkeys.com/products.aspx I tried Run As on the installer, installed fine, but the game itself wouldn't recognize the game's proprietary USB Hub/Toy. Installed a patch that I assumed would address the issue, no dice. But lo and behold, in the Administrator account, everything runs fine. So now I'm forced to let an 11 and 13 year old have an Admin account, just to play a kids game? :confused:

    Does anyone else think this is a big security risk, or is it just me?
     
    booboo12, Dec 26, 2007
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  2. sly

    sly m1530 owner!!!

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    well just tell them not to do anything else than play the game as most as u to be the adminstrator
     
    sly, Dec 26, 2007
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  3. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    Virtually everything has to be run as administrator on XP. No big surprise here, it seems.

    If you believe it's a big deal, contact the developer and ask them to fix it.
     
    Jalf, Dec 26, 2007
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  4. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    Well, that's what I did. But still, I think that maybe they should redesign the program to work well under a limited account, I'll E-Mail them to see what they have to say (like they will even respond :rolleyes: )

    Thanks Jalf and sly for responding.
     
    booboo12, Dec 26, 2007
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  5. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Yeah. That issue was fixed on mainframes in, what, 1964?
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Dec 26, 2007
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