Why do secondary accounts not have access to all programs?

[rlak]

I hope I'm able to explain this properly.

I'm on a secondary XP account without adminstrative access (b/c my roommate is very particular with his computer).

Why are certain programs only available to the administrator? The programs I'm talking about are various music player programs, photo programs, mp3 player program, various games, etc....

The only way I can use these programs on my secondary account is if my "ADMINISTRATOR" pulls up the program up using "RUN AS" and types in his password to open the program.

My roommate is willing to give me access to these programs all the time, but how do we do it?!?!?

HELP!

[LooseChippings]

Your friend needs to log on as the administrator and set up the user accounts from there.

[john66]

The only one that can install is the administrator - if there are two or three admnstrts - sometimes the installed program only puts a shortcut in the startmenu of the admnstrtr who installed it.
(when installing some progs ask if it is for all users or only current user)

Just go to
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Start Menu
xxx =user
and copy the short cut to your own startmenu
or
go to program files and make a shortcut to your desktop.

The only programs that cant be run by limited users are generally system changing programs. (antivirus\tweak\delete)