Can SongBeamer be installed and run on an 'limited' account?

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Juggledad
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Can SongBeamer be installed and run on an 'limited' account?

Post by Juggledad »

Can SongBeamer be installed and run on an 'limited' account? (an account without administrator authority)

Presentation Manager requires an administrator account, but that means whoever is running it can also make any kind of changes to the machine. We have our machine locked down as tight as we can so no one can have Internet access, no e-mail and virus checking of what ever gets loaded. I want to prevent accidental exposure to virus or malware causing any performance problems with the computer.

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Sebastian
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Post by Sebastian »

Yes, this is one of the new features in SongBeamer 2.25!

You need admin rights for the installation, but then you can run SongBeamer from a limited account just as well.

If you are upgrading from an older version (2.24 and below), then you will need to "move" your configuration files into a different folder:
  1. SongBeamer up to version 2.24 has all the configuration data in the Program Files Folder. Typically "C:\Program Files\SongBeamer".
  2. SongBeamer 2.25 stores the configuration data in "C:\Documents and Settings\<your login name>\Application Data\SongBeamer".
  3. SongBeamer looks in both folders if there is a file called SongBeamer.ini. The folder that contains this file will be used for the configuration data.
So what you need to do is copy the following configuration files from "C:\Program Files\SongBeamer" to "C:\Documents and Settings\<your login name>\Application Data\SongBeamer" and then delete them from "C:\Program Files\SongBeamer":

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Autosave.col
BGImgProfiles.cfg
BGProfiles.cfg
BGSngProfiles.cfg
SBConfig.sfs
SBStorage.sfs
SongBeamer.ini
SongReport.cfg
songs.idx
SongStatistics.dat
Toolbars.bak
Toolbars.ini
Do not move the files, because Windows will only assign the correct ACL if you do a copy. (ACL is the information which users can read or modify the files).

(You could also delete the file SongBeamer.ini from the Program Files directory, but if you want to keep your settings, then it is better to "copy and delete").
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