Permission Error when switching users

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I recently purchased Dark Avatar from Stardock.

The installation went fine and I can get the game up and running.

I have my computer set up with different users for my family, for the purpose of controlling my child's (age under 10)internet access.

My child and I play Galciv together, taking turns, when I work she controls our civ. When I am home, we play it together. We do this playing the same game through different user accounts on the computer. Galciv2 always worked well for this after copying the files from my documents/mygames/galciv2 to the other user account's mydocuments/mygames/galciv2.

I did this with Dark Avatar too, but when switching to my childs user account Dark Avatar does not load and projects a permissions error.

Operating System is Windows XP Media Edition.

Probably not a common problem.

TJ_Striker
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Does the error say what directory it doesn't have access to? DA should run fine under a limited account, aside from being unable to write a debug.err (which won't stop it from running).
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I just realized I confused the language.

When I said user account, I really meant user profile.

I copied the DA shortcut from one user profile desktop to the other, and copied the "my documents" folders as previously stated.

So when I logoff and switch user profiles, logon, using the same computer, DA gives the permission error when executed.

I will copy the exact permission error message when I get home from work.

Thanks

TJ_Striker
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
ok kryo,

I figured this one out for myself.

I had assigned my child's user profile as a "limited" account in Windows. Once I changed it to a regular profile account, DA worked fine.

The permissions error I received was due to the limited account status.

All better now, but I still wonder why Dreadlords worked fine under the limited account and Dark Avatar wouldn't.

TJ_Striker