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Code composer 4.0 running without administrator privileges

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Hello All,

I e-mailed support and they told me it was better to post this here. I hope there are
people out there who are running code composer in an educational setup where by it is
 not possible to give end users Administrative privileges but require them to be USER LEVEL
 while still able to use code composer.

We encountered some strange issues with CC4 running on Windows XP SP3.  We run
Active directory domain based setup, with students running user level accounts
. Each student's profile is roaming/redirected. We are using spectrum digital DSK6416
and 6455 boards.
 
1. When student user logs in, they are asked to enter license activation for product. 
When I installed the product, I already entered the license server and license port.
 Why does every student need to enter it again? Is there some environment variable
 or regkey i can set so future students do no have to enter this information?
 
2. When student launches program and it asks for workspace, all students home drives
 have redirected "My desktop" and "My Documents" to a network server.
 So their path is usually \\server\share\username\domain\My Documents\
 
It seems since CC4 is eclipse based it does not like UNC paths but since we map each
 student  to a drive letter this is fine so I just adjust the workspace path to
z:\domain\My Documents\workspace. that worked. Is this the proper setup?
 
3. Once I loaded the DSK6416 board as an administrator user, my students need to create
 their own target configuration to use the board we've run into a strange problem.
 When I go to TARGET - New TARGET CONFIGURATION. The window that asks to create a new target
configuration file, I uncheck "use shared location" and specified a path to my home drive using
 standard drive letter format. Z:\domain\My Documents\workspace (the same as my workspace path).
Nothing happens. I go back to the main screen of the program. However, if I repeat the process
 but do not uncheck "use shared location" and leave the default path: 
 
\\server\username\domain\user\CCSTargetConfigurations
 I get brought to a screen where I can setup the my target file picking the board I want to use.
 I thought CCS did not like UNC path so how come default method worked and 
why can't I specify my own path?
  
4. After I updated some of the components in CCS 4, It said it had to enable some
 of these components in workbench and must restart. I click restart and it keeps
 bringing me back to the same window telling me it has components to enable and
 I need to restart workbench. Thinking this might be a permission issue since our
student users cannot write to c:\program files\texas instruments - I relaxed the permissions
to give USERS modify access. When I ran the program after the update as an
administrative user, that window never popped up for me, so going forward do
 I need to give write access to c:\program files\texas  instruments to USERS?
 
5. When we were using CCS 3.3 on windows XP SP3, I had to use lrunase to elevate
 my student users to POWER USERS before CCS 3.3 can be used. We are transitioning
 to Windows 7 this year. Does CCS 4 require this or can CCS 4 run for NON - administrative
 users with USERS level privileges only? What other modifications are necessary? 
Registry keys?In CCS 3.3 we had to give modify permissions to GODSP under
HKLM\Software and Texas Instruments under HKLM\Software. Is this necessary
 for CCS4?
 
6. Does CCS 4 fully support Windows 7 x64?


Thank you


edit: sorry for the post being cut off - I've reposted.