Hello all! I am trying to make it so loged in users who has thebuilt-in users group access rights are able to add font's to the computer. In Windows XP we accomplished this by giving users group full access to the folder C:\Windows\Fonts and full access to the registry keys "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" and "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Type 1 Installer." However when I try to do this in Vista it still will not let someone of the users group add a new font. I have given the group proper access to the above registry keys. I have also been able to change ownership of the C:\Windows\Font location with administrator group and gave users full control. When I log in as a normal user, it acts like it is going to let me add a font, but the folder will just sit there and eventually cause a Windows Explorer crash. If anyone has been able to fix this or has any ideas, I would be most appreciative. I have searched all over for a fix and have yet to find one. Thanks!

Hi, The Fonts folder has been a long time favorite of malware writers to hide their code. The fact that standard user cannot install a font is a good thing, not a bug. Are you sure it is really necesary to go thru all the trouble of doing an unsuported operation? Why not just prompt the standard user for administrative credentials and install the font?

I am actually trying to find a way to do the same thing. The reason I don't want to prompt the user for admin credentials is that my users do not know the admin credentials, and I would like to keep it that way. On my XP systems I have a GP set to give users of a certian group access to %SystemRoot%\Fonts and to the reg key in MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts and it works perfectly, but this does not work on my Vista systems. From what I can tell the path to the folder or the reg key has not changed in Vista, but something must be missing or changed. p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';} span.EmailStyle15 {font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in;margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;}