Hi,
Long story short, an engineer has just visited our site to service our Laser cutter. He has added a new colour pallete to Corel Draw, but to print to the laser cutter, you need to go to Tools, Color Management, Default settings, then next to Presets, we need to change it to "Simulate Color Management Off", but when we click this, Corel closes down straight away, without giving us chance to save the settings.
When logged in as an administrator, the file prints fine to the Laser Cutter and the presets stay as they are, without Corel crashing. If you login as anyone else though, and try changing that setting, it crashes.
This appears to be a permissions problem (as it is working fine with the administrator account), but what security settings do I need to change? or Is there something else I can do?
Unfortunately the engineer didn't have a clue, but hopefully someone here does.
Thanks.
Not sure whether this will work, but it is worth a try.
Instead of logging on as administrator, stay logged on a normal user and try runas /user=administrator c:\progr.....\coreldrw.exe
Put this in the Start > Run command and use the real name of the administrator account and the full path to the appropriate version of CorelDraw. You will be asked for the admin password as coreldraw starts up.
Now see if you can change the colour management, and save it as default. If you now restart as a normal user, do you still have the changed setting?
Thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately, Teacher & Student accounts don't have access to the Run command, or the C: Drive where the Coreldrw.exe is located.
There is also, potentially 600 user accounts that need this setting changing.
If I can figure out a way of letting the users change it themselves, then that would obviously be easier, but as it stands, only an Administrator account can do it.
It's very strange because it's not like I get any error messages, saying that the lower accounts don't have permission or anything, the whole program just instantly closes.
It seems that you are on Win7. I think there's a setting which you can change for all users by logging in as administrator. Next instance onwards CorelDRW.exe should run in administrator mode for all users.
afinney said:unfortunately, Teacher & Student accounts don't have access to the Run command, or the C: Drive where the Coreldrw.exe is located.
Hi Anand,
Thanks for your suggestion also, unfortunately, we are using Windows XP Pro. It's my fault for not explaining myself better in the earlier posts.
This is a school network, so the Teacher & Student accounts are profiles that we have created and provided them with. They have no need to use the Run command, so this is disabled for them.
The thing that is confusing me is, this has worked fine ever since we upgraded to Corel X5, it's just since this engineer was in yesterday adding in the new color pallets that seems to have messed something up.
Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also, just to let you know, I have contacted Corel Support directly to see if they can provide a solution. If they do, I will post it here, just in case anyone else runs into the same problem as me.
First thing would be to find the folder where the settings are being stored.
That would normally be something like C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 but if your students don't have access to the C drive at all, you might need to search for one of its contained files such as color.ini
Temporarily relaxing the permissions on that folder may allow you to update the configuration, and possibly to compare the before and after contents so you can work out a batch method to update the other students too.