Begin the 2007 install -- on computers with "Fast User Switching" and standalone machines

Be logged in with Administrator rights

Click expert install

Choose Standard install

Choose to download updates

Click next when prompted

The installer will start

Click next to begin the install

Click on the EULA to approve

Enter the needed product key

Choose the location

Decide to install or not install Google Desktop

The install will begin

Almost done....

A couple of final routines run

And the install is complete

You'll need to do one more thing.
Log back in as Administrator and perform the following:

Log on as administrator - and log onto the company and click on switch to multi user mode

Select Yes to switch to multi user mode while in the "Administrator" level account

Click to confirm the setup

There is now a new user on the machine - QBDataServiceUser17

IMPORTANT STEP - you must change the permissions of the qbregistration.dat file to be "Users" to "Full Control"

Step one, you must go into the My computer, Folder Options, and untick the "Use Simple file sharing" in order to see the security tab

Then check "Show Hidden files and folders"

You need to do this so you can see the "Application Data" Folder

"I was troubleshooting an installation of QB07 on a 2003 Terminal Server. I had all the security modifications that I have used for the previous versions and it still wouldn't work. What I discovered is that normal users don't have but need rights to: Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Common Files\Intuit\Quickbooks\qbregistration.dat I added rights to that file and the program ran properly. Bad news about having to be logged in at the server for the Database Manager. When I called support before installing on our server they never mentioned that to me. I was initially happy they had come up with a solution that didn't require running full Quickbooks on my server. For the 2006 version I had installed QB running the Database piece on a different computer with a drive mapped to the server and it work fine for us. I may have to uninstall the 07 version and try that trick again."

If you do not do these steps, you will get this error message

If you do all of these steps, you can run QB without administrator rights on a standalone workstation (the message of "you do not have proper privilege level is a "sign" that you are running as non admin on XP sp2.

YOU CAN NOW RUN QUICKBOOKS 2007 WITHOUT ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS

http://www.quickbooks.com/Helpcenter/DoSearch.aspx?docType=DT_APPROVEDCONTENT&p=SG_Enterprise6_0&q=multi-user+setup

I think the issue is that they gave the "Everyone"
full control at the folder right above but it didn't propagate the rights down to that particular dat file