How to use as non-admin?

[Guest]

How can I use Zeus as a non-admin user? I like to run as non-admin, to minimize my exposure to malicious code. When I run Zeus, I can't save any options at all, because the options are all stored globally. Is there a way to save options on a per-user basis so I can run as non-admin?

[jussij]

I am not sure what you mean by non-admin

All the Zeus configuration details are stroed in configuration files in the zConfig directory. The only time Zeus stores information in the windows registry is when it forced to (ie SCC source control info etc).

What error message is generating if Zeus is run using a non-admin user?

If you have configured your machine to protect the program files to be read only, you could try moving Zeus to another directory or you could use the Zeus command line to move the zConfig directory:

For example this command line:

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 zeus -u c:\temp

means Zeus will strore all it's configuration details in the subdirectories off the temp directory.

Cheers Jussi

[BuckeyeInWI]

I also use non-admin. I installed Zeus while logged in as Administrator, but use it logged in as User. When I attempted to run Zeus, I get the message, "The software trial period has expired....". When I login as Administrator, it works fine.

I tried this command line (with and without the trailing back slash), but there is no change:

"C:\Program Files\zfw\zeus" -u %AppData%\Zeus\

[jussij]

I also use non-admin. I installed Zeus while logged in as Administrator, but use it logged in as User. When I attempted to run Zeus, I get the message, "The software trial period has expired....". When I login as Administrator, it works fine.

I think this problem relates to the fact that Zeus uses the third party AsProtect software for software protection. I will still need to do some more investigation, but my initial guess is that AsProtect is writting something to the user section of the windows registry.

As you are installing Zeus with the Admin user and running Zeus with another user, these user specific registry settings are lost to AspProtect and hence it disabled the trial period

I tried this command line (with and without the trailing back slash), but there is no change:

"C:\Program Files\zfw\zeus" -u %AppData%\Zeus\

This command line option is only used for Zeus configuration details. The AsProtect does not use this option.

If my guess is correct then unfortunately this will be a limitation of the shareware version of Zeus

But the AsProtect is only used for the shareware version so this problem should not exists in the release version of the Zeus software

Jussi