[Web4lib] Reader Rabbit and administrator rights

[Hirst, Edward Alan]

Hi Phalbe,

We have been able to install many of these kids games by copying the cd contents into a folder on the hard drive and then running the install program from the hard drive rather then the cd. The shortcuts work from the menu just like the cd was in the drive. There are no admin rights needed because, nothing needs to be installed. 
The kids can play without having to bother with a cd.

ed

Edward Hirst
Information Technology Librarian
Rowan Public Library
http://www.rowanpubliclibrary.org
Salisbury, NC



-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Phalbe Henriksen
Sent: Thu 10/11/2007 12:14 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Reader Rabbit and administrator rights
 
Folks,

This is slightly off-topic. It's not about the web, but it is about 
computers and software:

We have purchased many copies of Reader Rabbit and thought we'd be 
able to install the two CD's onto the hard drive of our public 
computers. An eleemosynary organization paid for these, so this has 
become a ticklish problem.

Our new IT person, who has never done IT in a library before, says 
that kids will have to borrow the CD's from a service desk and put 
them in the CD drives each time they want to use the program. 
Otherwise, we'd have to give them administrator rights to the computer.

Is this really, really correct? Is there no other way children can 
log in and use the program on the hard drive???

Thanks.

Phalbe Henriksen
Director
Bradford County Public Library
Starke, FL


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