Victor Stodell

At a number of times we have had requests to be able to run applications as a normal user even though the application is designed to run as an administrator. This could be handled manually by setting the privileges on each computer for certain paths and registry keys and any other resources the application requires. This easily gets out of hand and there is a much better solution, spelled  EPAL . Sure, it requires some configuration and tweaking, but when set up it works like a charm and is a great tool to compensate for poorly written Windows applications requiring administrative privileges.

This week has been lined with clumsiness, weird problems and some pride. The latter because I actually managed to conquer the problems. The clumsiness was just me managing to shut myself out from my computer. All accounts except the domain accounts were disabled, the domain cache was disabled and network settings not allowing contact with the domain. That is not a good combination. Thanks to  Offline NT Password & Registry Editor  I got in again just fine. The reason this all happened was mainly a security aspect, but combined with the poor network settings it turned out to be way too secure. The weird problems had to with our Windows CE application. As usual the information supplied from the users is very limited, like  "it doesn't work" . But when I finally got my hands on the log files I got even more confused. Weird problems in the shape of  SqlCeExceptions , no GPRS connection, sudden torn-offs... It turned out to be a memory card that was loose. The dat...