the machine and XP very protective about who can and cant write to the registry and some other areas of the machine. Youll find this problem alot from network delivered applications ie a shortcut points at a application that is run from a network share. You can further reduce the damage done by inquiring minds by using hard drive protection software such as DeepFreeze or HD Gaurd. I've always said that computers have no educational merit, anyway, so have no place in schools ah he forgets about the games :horrified :) Murray P 04-02-2005, 07:07 PM Glad I haven't got Sims 2 around here, what a nutty way to set up software let alone a game. Agree with GL. It shouldn't need to happen. Mudd 28-02-2005, 07:46 PM Hi all! I come all the way from Sweden to participate in this forum.. A comment on bad programs (that need to be run as Administrator): All Adobe programs is like this. Our students run them, an of course I don't want them to be admins! The latest headache is Photoshop Elements 3. Now, I'm going to try AutoIt, with the ability to make an . exe of the file. beama 28-02-2005, 09:10 PM there are ways round this but those in themselves open other security issues ie giving administrator rights to certain hives of the registry, also you can expand user rights to directories. My faveroite and the one in use at my place of work is, fat32, all users are