I am trying to get the regular Minecraft PC version to run in Windows 10 for my son. While it is his computer, I don't let him run as an administrator on the PC. The only way to launch the game is if I right click the icon and run as administrator. Which is fine but then I need to enter the password for the admin account on the windows box. Since I don't want him to have that password, it means that anytime he wants to play he has to come find me and I have to authenticate.
Sure I know how to grant him more permissions in Windows but I don't want to do that. Is that the only option to run this program?
As I was typing this I thought of something. I have his account locked down with the Microsoft Family Settings. His live account is set to Age 7. Part of this is used to restrict the hours that he can log into his computer but it also restricts games on his PC and Xboxs. Is it possible that the ESRB rating for Minecraft is causing this issue? I was thinking it was because he is running as a standard user account. Maybe I need to bump his age.
I bumped his age up to 10 on the Microsoft Family Settings website and had him log off and back in. Same issue. From what I can tell Minecraft is rated at 10 for the ESRB.
When I logged into the management account for MS Family and it appears to use ESRB. A google search tells me that it is 10+. If I go to ESRB's website where you can search games it comes back as 10+ for xbox, playstation and such but if I change the platform to PC/Mac it claims it can't find it.
In the Application Log the error is:
Event ID: 882
Source: SoftwareRestrictionPolicies
Access to C:\Program Files\Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe has been restricted by your Administrator by policy rule {8c2bf56d-8177-8c2fe0838029}
I am trying to get the regular Minecraft PC version to run in Windows 10 for my son. While it is his computer, I don't let him run as an administrator on the PC. The only way to launch the game is if I right click the icon and run as administrator. Which is fine but then I need to enter the password for the admin account on the windows box. Since I don't want him to have that password, it means that anytime he wants to play he has to come find me and I have to authenticate.
Sure I know how to grant him more permissions in Windows but I don't want to do that. Is that the only option to run this program?
As I was typing this I thought of something. I have his account locked down with the Microsoft Family Settings. His live account is set to Age 7. Part of this is used to restrict the hours that he can log into his computer but it also restricts games on his PC and Xboxs. Is it possible that the ESRB rating for Minecraft is causing this issue? I was thinking it was because he is running as a standard user account. Maybe I need to bump his age.
I bumped his age up to 10 on the Microsoft Family Settings website and had him log off and back in. Same issue. From what I can tell Minecraft is rated at 10 for the ESRB.
You could try this -
http://www.howtogeek.com/124087/how-to-create-a-shortcut-that-lets-a-standard-user-run-an-application-as-administrator/
Basically you need to create a shortcut like this - and replace the bolded things with what you have.
"runas /user:ComputerName\Administrator /savecred “C:\Path\To\Program.exe"
and then when you run it, it will ask for your password once, and then after that it will always launch in administrator when using that shortcut.
I will give this a shot. Thanks.
When I logged into the management account for MS Family and it appears to use ESRB. A google search tells me that it is 10+. If I go to ESRB's website where you can search games it comes back as 10+ for xbox, playstation and such but if I change the platform to PC/Mac it claims it can't find it.
In the Application Log the error is:
Event ID: 882
Source: SoftwareRestrictionPolicies
Access to C:\Program Files\Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe has been restricted by your Administrator by policy rule {8c2bf56d-8177-8c2fe0838029}