Question for techies: how do you give Admin permission to a program?

Fist off, I don't use Norton, so I don't know if this will work.

Right click on the program » run as » administrator » enter the password.

No, I mean, give it permanent permission so it can run its automatic update unattended... Is there a way?

Thanks for answering though.

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Patric...I think you'd have to set the permissions for that user from within the admin account....setting Norton's configs to others' accounts from there....

Eeeeasy. Live update won't run if your user doesn't have a password set. So, go into your user account and set a password. Then go into Scheduled Tasks, right click Symantec NetDetect, choose properties, and click Set Password, enter the password you just put into your user account. Live update should now run normally

Really?  Just the user password, not the admin password? Cause Live Update won't work if ran from the user account. I must log in as Admin. I'll try it anyway. Thanks.

 

BTW: while I'm at it, does XP let you restrict certain programs for certain users?  A friend of mine asked me that question. She has two kids, an older and a younger one. Her older boy plays a lot of shot-em-up games, but she doesn't want to let her younger one play those games. So, is it possible to tell XP to block the execution of some specific programs for a specific user?

paxx, I've tried to do what you are attempting to do with no success. After searching on Symantec's support site, I came to the conclusion that there was not a way to do. At least, no relatively easy way, although it may be possible with some advanced rights configuration or group policy editing.

On your second question, yes. It does take some user rights changes. You could create a special group, put those users in that group, remove them from the normal users group, and set appropriate rights to the program directories that group could and couldn't access.
Alternately, you could install the restricted programs to an alternate path (not Program Files) and restrict rights to that path.

Hmmm, dunno about that. I know some programs can be installed for a specific user only. I've never had to do it so...

 

paxx,

you should be able to run this as a scheduled task in the scheduler. Use the add scheduled task wizard and once you've selected the program and the schedule, you should have a dialog that asks you for the username and password, you can enter the admin info here, and it will run as that user. I'm guessing that the auto update is an application that can be run, not a function of another application.

Doesn't anyone read anymore?

...I don't think so Fuzzy

Patric...boot into Safe Mode as the Administrator and file and folder will show a security setting on the right click...you can allow total or partial control of any programs for any users you want.

There ya go - in pictures. You'll see the task has run successfully

Wow, thanks gary.

Fuzzy Logic: I think I understand... Netdetect isn't the live update program, but it checks if you have an internet connexion every 5 minutes, and that NetDetect software needs to run with the user password... If I understand correctly.  And that would be why Live Update doesn't want to run as a user. Makes sense.  I'll try it. Can't now, it's not for this machine, but for another machine. Thanks mucho mucho!

Yes, that's it.  You'll have it updating in no time

 

If only Symantec would have had this info come up on their support database, it would have saved me a lot of trouble!