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 Limited User Accounts / Cannot Activate ACTBAR Error
 
 3/30/2007 12:49:28 PM
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Limited User Accounts / Cannot Activate ACTBAR Error
 Modified By admin  on 3/30/2007 11:53:27 AM)
Anyone who has ever tried to deploy the Foxfire! Query and Report Writer version 6.0 on Windows XP or Terminal Serveri with security has likely seen this problem before. This may also be a problem running Foxfire! 6.0x with Vista.

When you first start up Foxfire!, it displays a message that says Cannot Activate Bar or it may have a problem even just starting up.

Why do you get that?

ActiveBar checks for its licensing by looking in theTh registry in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses. In Windows 2003 Terminal Server and updated versions of XP, access to this key was limited to power users and administrators (I'm not sure why since this is only the license access portion of the registry but I'm sure someone can explain it to me). Since a regular user doesn't have access to this, the message appears and confuses users.

You can still run and design reports but it's still very annoying.

How Do You Solve It?
I want thank Windows Server MVP Vera Noest for this solution - I was amazed at how easy it really was.

1. Log in as Administrator.
2. Start REGEDIT (Choose Run from the Start menu and enter REGEDIT)
3. Find the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses.
4. Right-click on the key and choose Permissions.
5. Set the permissions for Users to Full Control. (I'm not sure why Read is selected but Write is not but Full Control was all that was available on my end - if you can just set it to Read then you may be able to get by with this).
6. Close the Registry.
7. Re-login as a regular user.

The problem should now be solved.

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