I have simplified the program into a hello world program that only has a message box. No reg, no I/O. Same error.


>>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,
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>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.
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>If your application installs to the HKCurrentUser, and you installed under the admin, other users do not see that registry hive.
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>The HKLocalMachine - is accessible by all users.