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No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

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    No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

    I did a "clean install" of Windows XP PRO. I set up two users, myself as administrator, secretary as Limited. I installed Alpha Five ver. 4.03, updated to ver. 4.5, installed patch to make it Build 266. I did all this from my administrator user. I did this with many other programs as well. When I switched users to the secretary, all the other program files are in the Windows XP START>PROGRAMS Menu, except Alpha Five. I switched the secretary to Administrator type, rebooted, still not there. I then went to Explorer, found the Alpha Five folder, went to the Alpha5.exe, double clicked, and opened the program (it did request the serial number--which I had given when I installed it from my user name). The program then loaded fine, however the Alpha Five folder still does not appear in the START>PROGRAMS folder. Any suggestions?
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    RE: No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

    I think I understand what you are trying to do. Give this a try:

    While logged in as administrator, navigate to c:,documents and settings, administrator, start menu, programs. Find the Alpha five program group and copy it (control+c). Navigate back to c:, documents and settings, all users, start menu, programs. Paste (control+v) the Alpha five program group there. Log off and log back on as the person with limited rights and you should see Alpha 5 program now.

    vkj

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      RE: No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

      Thanks! That did the trick! Appreciate your help.

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        RE: No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

        In the future.. if you install a program and you want all other users of the computer to use the same program.. install using the control panel's "Add / Remove Programs".

        This makes it available for all users... usually.

        And you should do this from an administrator level account too BTW.

        Jeff K.

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          RE: No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

          I found nothing will help solve the problem other than making the secretary's status to "administrator" rather than "limited." The other "fixes" worked only until the system was rebooted. I spoket to someone at Alpha Software and he said that was the only way to get it to work. Alpha Five ver. 4, Build 266, is the only program on the system with WINDOWS XP Pro that behaves this way.

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            RE: No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

            I agree with Wayne.

            I cannot find any way that a non-administrator can run Alpha in XP. This is a real pain when distributing a runtime app.

            I think it can be done by meddling with the registry. Anyone out there know of a solution.

            Michael

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              RE: No Alpha 5 in XP START Menu

              I experienced this same problem when I installed an app on a Win2K machine. The way I got around it was to uninstall it and changed my install routine to install it in the C:\ (root directory) rather than in the c:\Program files directory. You might try that to see if it works for you on XP. (I use the Wise Installmaker program for my distribution apps and it is real easy to change the install directory.

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