Honeyslug

We’ve received a small number of requests for help with saving My Pet Dinosaur games on machines running Vista and Windows 7. The problem centres around the differences between Standard and Administrator User settings under these operating systems. In the case of both Vista and Win7, Standard Users are unable to change the setup of anything installed under administrator privileges, this can include the ability to save games.

Below are the advised solutions to this problem.

1 – If you do not want to give machine administator access to the other user:

There are two ways to provide game access to a standard user without resorting to giving full admin rights.

First and easiest, is, whilst logged in as the standard user, to find the application in the location you installed it to (default is C:\Program Files\Honeyslug\MyPetDinosaur\) and right-click on MyPetDinosaur.exe, select “Run As Administrator”. This will give the user full administrator rights to My Pet Dinosaur, but will not allow them to change anything else. Please note that the standard user may require admin to enter their machine login password before they can run the game.

Second and somewhat more labour intensive is adjusting the security settings as an administrator. As above, find the location of the MyPetDinosaur.exe and right-click on it, then follow the points below.

- Select ‘Properties’
- When the new pop-up window comes up, select the ‘Security’ tab.
- Select ‘Advanced’
- In this pop-up window, ‘Permissions’ should be open, left-click on the user whose permissions you want to change.
- Left-click ‘Edit’
- Click the Allow check boxes between ‘Traverse Folder/Execute File’ and ‘Read Permissions’ if you want to limit them to loading and saving only. Otherwise, simply click ‘Full Control’ which is simpler, but gives the same level of access as “Run as Administrator”.
- Click ‘OK’ on the pop-up windows to confirm your changes.

2 – If you simply wish to give the user Administrator access so they can play the game and save.

- In the Start Menu select ‘Control Panel’
- Select ‘Manage Another Account’
- Left click on the user account you want to change.
- From the list, select ‘Change your account type’
- Check ‘Administrator’
- Left click ‘Change Account Type’ when you are done.

Please be aware that by giving Administator access to the machine, you are allowing that user full editing of the machine.

Please feel free to leave any questions below this post.

Thanks