Contribute

Microsoft vs. Macromedia
Dave's been working to improve the setup of our network and his latest step was to not give users admin rights on their local machines. Unfortunately, after doing this these users were unable to start Contribute. Dave worked on it for a while but eventually gave up … not to mention that he's got a ton of other things to do rather than figure out why Contribute won't run. I gave it a shot and managed to figure out what was going on. Turns out that the Macromdia Licensing program runs as a server. In WinXP regular users are unable to start a service. See the problem? I've worked around the issue by having the licensing service start at boot time.