AutoCad LT 2006 Admin rights issue

[Josh.hill]

Hey all.

I've got an issue with ACLT2006 on Windows 7 and I'm getting to my wits end and hope that some of you can help.

I've been able to get the software working with no problems what-so-ever on Win7, however the user has to be a local admin. When the user doesn't have admin rights the program just simply fails to load and if you try to open a drawing you get an error saying that it has failed to connect to the software.  Now we've had a change in policy and I've been tasked with getting this working without letting the user have their admin rights.

I've tried giving the user full access to the Program Files directory, and to the Windows Directory as well as various parts of the registry. I've tried using a process monitor to see just where it's failing but I can't see anything specific about what is causing the problem.

Has anyone gotten this working with a normal user account or is my only option to give them local admin access?

Regards,

Josh

[pendean]

LT2006 is not supported in Win7.
LT2006 requires local admin rights. Some posted topics from AutoCAD may help:
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Do-I-ne...
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Unable-...
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Adminis...
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-set-a-program-to-r...

User tip here: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?49828-Autocad-not-running-in-Restricted-user-login-in-w...

[mpalan2009]

On a similar note...

I once worked at a large corporation that took away certain rights I had as a user to modify the windows environment.  The IT departnemt used the policy editor to take away rights like installing programs, changing the desktop size, among many other things.  I think that AutoCAD requires rights of the registry that will allow users to go around the policy rights pushed from the server anyway.  It might take a pretty advanced user to develop such a lisp function.

Hope this helps

Matthew