On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:49, Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are almost no Windows apps that can handle multiple simultaneous > users. Those that can are designed to be installed on a server or > written explicitly as desktop servers. > Most apps can handle it by using separate HKCU registry and configuration in a per-user directory.... (And not allowing limited users write access to shared spaces...) > Since a Windows desktop box can't be used by more than one user at a > time it follows that the OS will lack file access locks (only Windows > Server has those) and there's no requirement for a normal Windows app to > support more than one user at a time either. All those that can > apparently do so are either servers (e.g. SQL Anywhere) or operate as a > single program with multiple windows (e.g. text editors, Word). Since Windows XP, Fast user switching allow you exactly that.... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279765 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q294737/ gives some details.. It is not implemented in Wine though... And some old applications break when used this way (usually those applications are broken under non-administrator accounts and does things like saving configuration in INI files under Program Files) Gert
