Running ICQ as a single Win XP user?
 

I've offered to allow my flatmate to access the net via my PC and have set-up a separate Win XP user account for her to use. Does anyone know how I can do an ICQ Lite intall which will run ONLY in my flatmate's XP user account (ie I don't want ICQ Lite appearing in my user account)?

First, what's a flatmate?

A flatmate or a housemate is someone you're sharing a home with.
I take it these terms are not used in the US?

It kind of like a roommate.

it's a room-mate or "roomie" as I hear you guys use over here a bunch.

Log onto her account and install ICQ Lite. The installer should prompt you to install on the current user account or on all user accounts. Choose "current user account" only. Note, You may need to give her account administrative privileges which can later be removed after installing ICQ Lite.

If ICQ Lite fails to follow the Windows logo
guidelines, then delete any program shortcuts from the other user accounts. Find the application install directory (usually within Program Files) and set the permissions so that only the desired accounts have access, rather than the default which has
grants to the Users group.

That's what I did originally, but I wasn't given the option to install on just the current user account.

XP Home appears to only allow permissions to be set on folders which appear within a users profile, ie My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites.

I don't think that's entirely true.

If you are using NTFS, use cacls from the command line to change the permissions.

Seems like you are going through alot of trouble when the end result would be pretty much the same if you disabled ICQ at startup, deleted any desktop icons (from your user profile), and deleted the start menu program grouping (from your user profile).

What's so important about removing all access from your user accout?

Interesting... I'll have to look into that :thumbsup

Yep, that's an option, but it's not ideal since much of ICQ's usefulness comes from having it load automatically at startup so that it is always running in the background.

Mainly a desire not to have ICQ load at startup when I'm the user, I already have way too many programs running and don't need ICQ since I use Trillian.