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[user]

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We have XP media center 2005 set up so myself and my husband are
administators and the 2 kids are limited access. A couple of questions. Is
there a way I can have Firefox as my default browser and him Internet
Explorer. Right now when I switch to my account after he's been on IE I get
a message saying Firefox is not the default browswer and I again set it as
the default even though I just did that last time. Also can we have the
keyboard shortcut keys open different mail and homepage, etc.

Last thing, I installed Sims 2 one of the administrator logins but it will
only run from the admin. logins. If one of the kids click on it from their
login they get "unknown error" - that's the complete error. I uninstalled it
and re-installed it from one of the kids login but the same thing happens.
Any reason comes to mind why only the admins. can play Sims 2 while the
limited accounts get such a 'descriptive' unknown error.

 

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Sims 2 is probably not designed for Windows XP. Programs that meet this requirement are mutli user aware, and know how the NTFS file system can affect how they run.

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"6911" <6911@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:50241730-ABC4-4E04-A61F-29305CEA1035@microsoft.com...
> We have XP media center 2005 set up so myself and my husband are
> administators and the 2 kids are limited access. A couple of questions. Is
> there a way I can have Firefox as my default browser and him Internet
> Explorer. Right now when I switch to my account after he's been on IE I get
> a message saying Firefox is not the default browswer and I again set it as
> the default even though I just did that last time. Also can we have the
> keyboard shortcut keys open different mail and homepage, etc.
>
> Last thing, I installed Sims 2 one of the administrator logins but it will
> only run from the admin. logins. If one of the kids click on it from their
> login they get "unknown error" - that's the complete error. I uninstalled it
> and re-installed it from one of the kids login but the same thing happens.
> Any reason comes to mind why only the admins. can play Sims 2 while the
> limited accounts get such a 'descriptive' unknown error.

 

[Guest]

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6911 wrote:
> We have XP media center 2005 set up so myself and my husband
> are administators and the 2 kids are limited access. A
> couple of questions. Is there a way I can have Firefox as
> my default browser and him Internet Explorer. Right now
> when I switch to my account after he's been on IE I get a
> message saying Firefox is not the default browswer and I
> again set it as the default even though I just did that last
> time. Also can we have the keyboard shortcut keys open
> different mail and homepage, etc.
>
> Last thing, I installed Sims 2 one of the administrator
> logins but it will only run from the admin. logins. If one
> of the kids click on it from their login they get "unknown
> error" - that's the complete error. I uninstalled it and
> re-installed it from one of the kids login but the same
> thing happens. Any reason comes to mind why only the admins.
> can play Sims 2 while the limited accounts get such a
> 'descriptive' unknown error.

You might want to try this utility for your default browser
issue:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultbrowser.htm

There's a patch available for Sims 2 that's supposed to correct
that problem. Here's the download site:

http://thesims2.ea.com/update/

As for your keyboard question, I have no idea.


Nepatsfan