Clie desktop and XP user accounts

[Sara]

I'm wondering whether anyone has encountered this problem, and if so, how you solved it.

On Windows XP, I have several user accounts. After spending a few weeks getting rid of some stubborn malware and spyware, I downgraded the user account I do most of my work on to a "limited account." But now, when I open up the Clie desktop, I get an error message -- the data does not load. The Desktop opens, but no info. If I switch the user account back to "administrator," then things work well -- when I open up the Clie Desktop, the data is there.

I know the easy solution is just to leave the user account as an "administrator" type account. But I'm trying to make it hard for malware to sneak onto my computer, and would like to make the account "limited," but still use the Desktop software on it.

Any ideas?

THanks.

[MicahDG]

My guess would be that your downgraded user account does not have access priviledges to the location where you PIM data is stored. I unfortunately do not have a good solution for you, but you might try moving the data to a place that the downgraded account can access, or try to fiddle with what the account can actually access? I dunno :P

[Sara]

Thanks, that sounds right. The data is in the SONY Handheld folder, which is in the Program Files directory. So now the question is how to designate a different location for the data, so that Palm Desktop knows where to look and where to sync to. I'll play with that; meanwhile, if anyone has some ideas on that, I'd be grateful!

[Sara]

Turns out, it's easy -- from the Optionsm menu in Palm Desktop. Thank you MicahDG for pointing me in the right direction.

[MicahDG]

heh, don't thank me yet :) Does it work? I'm a fan of improvisation where computers are concerned, so my suggestions often reflect a temporary fix or workaround which don't always work...

[Sara]

It works, it works! You're far too modest!

[Thelonious]

As I general rule, I would not leave personal data on the Windows system partition, but have it on a seperate data partition. That way, you can reinstall Windows without losing peronal data. I have my entire palm folder on a seperate folder.