FAQ: Giving non-administrative users of Windows 2000 and XP access to ATM Deluxe

Question

In order for a restricted user to launch the ATM control panel and add or remove fonts, they will need to have access to the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Type Manager
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Type 1 Installer\Type 1 Fonts
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Fonts
Adapted from material originally posted by Lance K

Answer 1

Manuel,
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do this... I had to use advanced permissions on the %SYSTEMROOT% folder so that the specific group of users I have are the only ones allowed to write to it. It uses a temp file, and writes it to c:\winnt while it is working with it (which is only when ATM is writing changes to the atmreg.atm file at application close time)... so your user(s) will have to have only the "Create Files/Write Data" permissions to the whole of the winnt folder (and modify permissions on the atmreg.atm file) to use atm. I had to use a utility that traces thread, file & Registry access to determine how to make this work. This is the ONLY way, ATM is hard-coded to use atmreg.atm in the system root folder (as well as to use the temp file in the system root folder), and it needs create files/write data permissions on the system root folder to use the temp file. I hope this makes sense to you... if not, e-mail me [email protected] and I will send you my document for fixing the problem.
Good Luck
--Joe