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The Answer-- Quickbooks w/o Administrator privileges

Finally, the top-secret, classified information that Intuit doesn't want you to know! Here's how to run QuickBooks without administrator privileges:

Give Full Control to the Users group for the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaProperties\PrivateP roperties\Joystick\Winmm HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intuit HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (yes, the entire hive)

Also give "Modify" access to the Users group for

Program Files\Intuit

That's it! That's what Intuit is too lazy to do on its own in the installation program, or too lazy to fix in the program itself somehow. I have had two clients running it successfully with no users as local administrators for many months now. Now it can be told; I hope this helps some of you on the front lines.

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Andrew M. Saucci, Jr.
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Andy,

Which version(s) of QB does this apply to ?

Thanks!

*Watt
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*Watt

It probably applies to any reasonably current version. I had QB 5 running at one client and installed QB Enterprise Solutions 6 afterward with no modifications. It will likely work for any Intuit program that installs underneath "Intuit."

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaProperties\PrivateP

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Andrew M. Saucci, Jr.

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Ed Adams

Historians believe that in newspost on Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Ed Adams penned the following literary masterpiece:

I think you misunderstand.

They were registry entries that enabled one to run Quickbooks without being an administrator of the computer as in user/power user/administrator.

It doesn't alter the security of Quickbook users.

Duncan

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Duncan Clark

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Ed Adams

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