cannot edit pictures in picture manager without local admin right.

[David P.]

cannot edit pictures in picture manager without local admin rights....

is there any way around this?

Thanks,
David P.

 

[Jake]

David,

So far all i could find/test is to delete the user profile, and log in as
Admin, run PicMan, then create a new user. That new user is then able to use
PicMan. It seems to install more once the user runs it after the admin runs
the program.

I will see if this truly does work with an existing user. Most of the time
i have only tried it on machines that do not have any user profiles.

Jake

 

[CB]

I spent about 2 weeks working with Microsoft on this problem at our company
and we discovered when a computer name is the same as the username logging in
the user cannot edit pictures. We changed the name of the computer and the
user logged in and was able to rotate, resize, etc and save the files.

Try that and see if it works for you!

 

[Jake]

WOW!

Well who would have known that to be an issue above all else!.... Certainly
a goofup there, any way to fix that in a later SP or something?

I had tested this on a pc of one of our users, and of course computer name +
computer user = no Picture Manger, then changed the computer and BAM it works
like it should.

now i'll have to change a couple more and actually get them to use it. More
training....

Thanks for letting us know! and hope others can get around this strange issue.