Games and multiple user desktops   

Hi Folks

Medieval Total War II, was installed on the Administrator desktop, fine no 
problems there.  When you switch to the guest desktop, and the Medieval 
Total War II, disk is in the drive, it tries to install the game, then it 
realises that the game and all its components are already installed and 
stops the installation process.  So I have tried installing Medieval Total 
War II, on the guest desktop but it won't let me as it quite rightly says it 
is already installed.  Is there any way to stop it from trying to install, 
when you activate other user desktops other than the administrator one. 
TIA.


Yours Oathsworn

date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:32:51 +0100   author:   Oathsworn

Re: Games and multiple user desktops   

"Oathsworn"  wrote in message 
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> Medieval Total War II, was installed on the Administrator desktop, fine no 
> problems there.  When you switch to the guest desktop, and the Medieval 
> Total War II, disk is in the drive, it tries to install the game, then it 
> realises that the game and all its components are already installed and 
> stops the installation process.  So I have tried installing Medieval Total 
> War II, on the guest desktop but it won't let me as it quite rightly says 
> it is already installed.  Is there any way to stop it from trying to 
> install, when you activate other user desktops other than the 
> administrator one. TIA.

Most games these days have an option to install for "all users" during 
setup.  Typically it is checked by default.

Does the game work on another account?  It may be an issue the game has with 
the 'guest' account, which is locked down slightly more than a typical 
standard user account.

-- 
Paul Smith,
    Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:39:51 +0100   author:   Paul Smith

Re: Games and multiple user desktops   

"Paul Smith"  wrote in message 
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> "Oathsworn"  wrote in message 
> news:58D78DFA-B653-435A-B060-DC522E95F0FB@microsoft.com...
>
>> Medieval Total War II, was installed on the Administrator desktop, fine 
>> no problems there.  When you switch to the guest desktop, and the 
>> Medieval Total War II, disk is in the drive, it tries to install the 
>> game, then it realises that the game and all its components are already 
>> installed and stops the installation process.  So I have tried installing 
>> Medieval Total War II, on the guest desktop but it won't let me as it 
>> quite rightly says it is already installed.  Is there any way to stop it 
>> from trying to install, when you activate other user desktops other than 
>> the administrator one. TIA.
>
> Most games these days have an option to install for "all users" during 
> setup.  Typically it is checked by default.
>
> Does the game work on another account?  It may be an issue the game has 
> with the 'guest' account, which is locked down slightly more than a 
> typical standard user account.
>
> -- 
> Paul Smith,
>    Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
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Hi Paul Smith

Yes the game works on the guest account, like I say it is just annoying when 
you activate the account and the disk is in the drive the stupid thing tries 
to install and then says hang on a sec its already installed, and stops 
trying to install it.


Yours Oathsworn

date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:58:29 +0100   author:   Oathsworn