Users and applications

Ok, I admit I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to Win NT/2000.

Anyway, we have a sort of "scanning station" computer that everyone uses when the want to scan something. Each person generally uses their own account to login when they fire up the machine. This particular computer (like many around here) uses Windows NT 4.

When I installed Photoshop on this computer, I did so with the Administrator account. Now of course, Photoshop doesn't appear in the Start Menu unless someone is logged in as the administrator. Ooops.

Ok, so I know I can just copy over the relevant .LNK files to the appropriate part of the All Users folder to make the application "visible" to all. My question is, what did I do wrong here during installation? What should I have done differently during the install if I wanted the application to be available to all use regardless of user account?

I tried poking through Knowledge Base, but I don't even know the names of the relevant concepts to get a useful search done. :)

When your installing an app on an nt4 machine usually it will ask you where to stick the .lnk files. I don't remember the exact wording but that is what I seem to remember.

Hi There,

Some application, not sure about photoshop, but some only put link in the current user profile.

I think it is a necessary evil wit NT4.0.

have never seen a fix for it.

Cheers :)

well some applications put the *.lnk in the User profile, other in "all users" - if you install one copy - just move the file..

better yet use the login script to move the file...

move %windir%\profiles\full path %windir%\profiles\full path to "all users" start menu..


enjoy...


Added after a while ..

just had a different idea - in my old job I used to build software distribution packages using MSI, Wise and others..

they allow you to customize a package to where you want the ICON :)