Easy CD Creator and W2k

Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know very much about Win 2000. I just built a new computer for our church with a CD burner. Of course the burner came with Easy CD Creator 4.0.

What we're wanting to do is have an account like 'office' or something that the secretary, etc can use to login locally to the computer and do stuff in Word, etc. I've been trying to use ECDC under the 'office' account (which ISN'T in the administrator's group). Whenever I run ECDC it comes up with Access Denied messages, which I know this has something to do with permissions or something because I add the user to the admin group and it works fine.

Is there a way that we can change permissions or something for that account so that it can use that software? I've already tried giving that user full access to both Program Files folder and Winnt folder just to see if it was something with those, and it still wouldn't work. We would really prefer to keep this account restricted because the secretary isn't very familiar with computers and we don't want to run the risk of her 'accidentally' deleting something important.

Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.

The only thing that I got to work a while ago was to typed Start|Type Regedt32|enter
In HKEY_Current_User you need to click on SOFTWARE and find all the occurrences of your software. (Adaptec, Easy CD Creator, whatever) and click SECURITY (at the top of the box) and then click PERMISSIONS. Add your user with full access. Do the same for HKEY_USERS and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. That is the best thing that I have found, but it didn't always work. If that doesn't help, run a search in the forum because your question has been asked a lot in the past.

Thanks for your quick reply Mope, but that didn't work. I found your post about this from a few months ago, and nothing from that worked either. I got as far as you got in editing the registry and then getting the message about the registry when running ECDC. Then ECDC doesn't detect the cd burner.

Any more ideas/suggestions? Thanks again.

Maybe I've misunderstoond, but are you saying that the software to run the CDRW is installed on a Windows 2000 box, and the secretary is trying to access it remotely through the network from her PC with the CDRW? I'm probably waaaay off here, but if that's the case, then I would recommend installing the software locally on the box that has the CDRW unit in it. Again, I'm probably wrong here in my understanding of the problem, and if so, then please disregard this post.

[quote]Originally posted by WebHead:
<strong>Maybe I've misunderstoond, but are you saying that the software to run the CDRW is installed on a Windows 2000 box, and the secretary is trying to access it remotely through the network from her PC with the CDRW? I'm probably waaaay off here, but if that's the case, then I would recommend installing the software locally on the box that has the CDRW unit in it. Again, I'm probably wrong here in my understanding of the problem, and if so, then please disregard this post.</strong><hr></blockquote>

No.....not even close. The software (Adaptec's (actually Roxio I guess) Easy CD Creator 4.0 is installed locally on the win2k box. The computer is only going to be on a peer-to-peer network when I get the machine finished, so there will be no network logons or whatever as in a domain, etc, just a local account on the Win2k box. Hope that clears it up some.

Thanks anyway WebHead!

This seems to be a problem with all burn software. I don't know the work around, sorry I couldn't help more. Even Nero is supposed to have a security tab and it doesn't. E-mail Roxio support and see what they have to say. I think that the newest version of ECCD fixes the problem, but I'm not sure. It's silly that even backup operators don't have burn rights. There are two things that might work - use a ZIP drive and then someone with admin rights can transfer the files to RW. Or, give your user admin rights and leave it at that or go through properties and deny specific functions to that particular account. Chances are your user won't know/care how to change the properties back. Deny priviledges takes precedent over Grant priviledges so you can include user in admin account while Denying user access to folders, etc. Hope this helps...

BTW - I totally forgot to add this. You didn't tell us if you need the secretary to use the burner. If you are the one who wants to use the burner but don't want to log out of 'office' for some reason then you can right click on the shortcut to ECCD while holding the Shift key down. Then you can select Run As and type in the password for the admin account. I hope for the hair on your head's sake that is the problem!

Thanks for all your help Mope. I didn't know about the 'Run as' feature. That's pretty neat. I guess that we can live like that for a while. The secretary probably won't need to use the burner, and the people that do will be the only other 2 people that know the admin password anyway, so we can just do it like that. Thanks again for your help!

Just for follow up and for anyone else that might have this problem, anything below version 4.05 is not supported in W2K, according to Roxio. I downloaded an update file that updates it to verson 4.05 and installed it and now I can run ECDC just fine under a non-admin account with no changes to the registry. Here is a link to Roxio's site with the update:

<a href="http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ecdc/ecdcupdates.jhtml" target="_blank">http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ecdc/ecdcupdates.jhtml</a>