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#1 2012-06-17 16:17:07
- CoolLegoJack
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2012-05-27
- Posts: 1
Scratch icon not working
The icon created by the install of scratch no longer works unless I right click on it and choose run as administrator. How can I fix this?
Windows 7 x64
Scratch 1.4
It's my son's computer and I don't really want him to have full administrator privs, although I told him it's ok to open Scratch with my password for now as a workaround.
Thanks,
Lisa
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#2 2012-06-18 16:26:59
Re: Scratch icon not working
Hi CoolLegoJack. I did some research for you and I found this:
Luxus wrote:
Basically, what you need to do is:
1) Move the Application to a folder outside "Program Files". E.g. make a folder named "User Apps" or something like this.
2) Select the app folder properties (by clicking with right mouse button on it), go to "security" tab and press "edit" to change its permissions.
3) Press "Add" and enter the name of the user you want to run the app. Press ok.
4) In "Permissions for -user name-" box, mark the checkboxes to give him full control (or just "modify") rights. Press OK and OK. Now your users application has the nessesary permisions to write to its folders.
But the app may ask to write something in the systems registry. So, follow the next steps:
5) Go to start and run "regedit". Inside Registry Editor click "Computer" and make a search ("ctrl-F") with the app name (e.g. "quake.exe"). Wait to find it.
6) When you find some registry folder that is connected somehow with the app, press the right mouse button on it and select "permissions".
7) Here you have to add the user name once more and give him the full control permission. Now his app can write to system registry.
8)Go to the app shortcut you have created for the user, click properties and enable "always run as administrator".
9) Done! Your user can run the Application without having you to give him admin rights!
The full thread I pulled this information from can be found here!
I hope this works!
Does Scratch.exe no longer work? It should be the scratch cat icon one. Most people run Scratch from that, not via the image, so perhaps if the .exe no longer works, reinstalling Scratch is worth a try since the above instructions have you move the program to a new folder anyway.
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If you want to research this further yourself, I found that thread by simplying googling windows 7 allow some programs to be run by an non-administrator.
Last edited by sparks (2012-06-18 16:33:50)
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#3 2012-06-18 20:31:07
- chanmanpartyman
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2011-05-30
- Posts: 500+
Re: Scratch icon not working
sparks wrote:
Hi CoolLegoJack. I did some research for you and I found this:
Luxus wrote:
Basically, what you need to do is:
1) Move the Application to a folder outside "Program Files". E.g. make a folder named "User Apps" or something like this.
2) Select the app folder properties (by clicking with right mouse button on it), go to "security" tab and press "edit" to change its permissions.
3) Press "Add" and enter the name of the user you want to run the app. Press ok.
4) In "Permissions for -user name-" box, mark the checkboxes to give him full control (or just "modify") rights. Press OK and OK. Now your users application has the nessesary permisions to write to its folders.
But the app may ask to write something in the systems registry. So, follow the next steps:
5) Go to start and run "regedit". Inside Registry Editor click "Computer" and make a search ("ctrl-F") with the app name (e.g. "quake.exe"). Wait to find it.
6) When you find some registry folder that is connected somehow with the app, press the right mouse button on it and select "permissions".
7) Here you have to add the user name once more and give him the full control permission. Now his app can write to system registry.
8)Go to the app shortcut you have created for the user, click properties and enable "always run as administrator".
9) Done! Your user can run the Application without having you to give him admin rights!The full thread I pulled this information from can be found here!
I hope this works!
Does Scratch.exe no longer work? It should be the scratch cat icon one. Most people run Scratch from that, not via the image, so perhaps if the .exe no longer works, reinstalling Scratch is worth a try since the above instructions have you move the program to a new folder anyway.
______________________________
If you want to research this further yourself, I found that thread by simplying googling windows 7 allow some programs to be run by an non-administrator.
Scratch doesn't work at all for me unless I run as administrator 
That's a long link there.
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