Travel Technology - dumb XP problem

Have my (travel) laptop set-up with XP. Admin account with full rights, user account with limited rights (can't install, etc...). Supposedly it is better from a security standpoint not to be connected to the web when logged in to the admin account - thus the two accounts as my laptop is always plugged into a broadband link somewhere.

I've installed Palm Desktop and it shows up fine in the admin user desktop and start button, but will not appear in the limited account. Is this a normal problem and I have to do something to give the other "user" access, or just a glitch with Palm Desktop?

(Laptops, by the way, are great point generators for folding@home - the Pentium M CPU has a big cache which helps it really crank out some of the projects much faster than processors with higher ghz.)

Thanks, TJ

Have my (travel) laptop set-up with XP. Admin account with full rights, user account with limited rights (can't install, etc...). Supposedly it is better from a security standpoint not to be connected to the web when logged in to the admin account - thus the two accounts as my laptop is always plugged into a broadband link somewhere.

I've installed Palm Desktop and it shows up fine in the admin user desktop and start button, but will not appear in the limited account. Is this a normal problem and I have to do something to give the other "user" access, or just a glitch with Palm Desktop?

(Laptops, by the way, are great point generators for folding@home - the Pentium M CPU has a big cache which helps it really crank out some of the projects much faster than processors with higher ghz.)

Thanks, TJ
It probably just loaed the icon under the Admin user's profile instead of "All Users". Go to documents and settings\Adminuser\StartMent\Programs (or Desktop) and look for the palm desktop icon. Copy that icon to the desktop folder (or start menu) of your non admin user. Or you can put it in the "All Users" profile (all users may be hidden).

I've installed Palm Desktop and it shows up fine in the admin user desktop and start button, but will not appear in the limited account. Is this a normal problem and I have to do something to give the other "user" access, or just a glitch with Palm Desktop?

Yes, you have to do something, but for the Palm Desktop I don't know what it is. Some programs have to be installed a certain way to get them to work.

Palm is a total pain to get to work right in XP on a limited user.

Every site you look at has different suggestions, I usually just give up and give the user local admin rights. It's a well known problem, google palm xp administrator and you will find many instances of it, very few solutions that work other then giving them the rights.

Glad to know if isn't just me - I don't play with computers nearly as much as I used to and thought that perhaps I had suddenly become old and the world had passed me by. ..