>My apologies in advance This is a cross post from the VB forum.
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>As administrator I can run 4 applications that do not write to or access any local files. It does use SQL 2000 and the registry. When running as a user with read rights to the program files dir and RW rights to temp I recieve the following message;
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>The application failed to initiate properly (0x0000022), Click ok to terminate the application.
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>I need to resolve the issue in order to close the deal...
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>My thanks in advance,

Sounds like the registry might be the problem - I ran into something similar a long time ago. Be aware that each user has their own registry hive.

If your application installs to the HKCurrentUser, and you installed under the admin, other users do not see that registry hive.

The HKLocalMachine - is accessible by all users.