4 USers on same computer

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 by Steve Colclough | Discussion: DesktopX

I, my wife and 2 kids each have a login on the same WinXP computer at home. I have a DesktopX 3.1 and would like to know if I can have a different desktop for each of us or must I purchase a multi-user licence to do so? I tried to open DesktopX 3.1 from my wife's login but it didn't work.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Steve Colclough

http://stevecolclough.com
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Bichur
Reply #1 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 7:44 PM
We only have 3 users (me,wife,child).. we have 3 DTX desktops, we get our own cursorxp, wb, etc. The only thing that seems to be one size fits all is iconpackager.

Steve Colclough
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 7:52 PM
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Do you have 3 licenced copies of DTX or you have created and are using 3 desktops? If you have 1 copy of DTX and are using 3 different desktops (one for each user) how are you doing this? This is what I want to do.

Thanks

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Bichur
Reply #3 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 8:02 PM
one copy - one license - one computer - 3 different desktops

for the life of me, i can't remember if i did anything special to get it to my wifes, but i don't think so...cuz i didn't for my daughter --- she was four and was playing a game, lost it and tried to open in again and dragged all my folders in the games folder into each other...so all i did was set her up an account she can access to get to her games installed on the computer.

is your wife's account an admin or limited account - can't remember if it matters but it might

can't remember cuz mine's been working alright since 2003

Steve Colclough
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 8:46 PM
My wife's account is an administrator's account. When I logged on to her account and selected "My Computer" then "C:" then "program Files" etc. to the DTX directory and double clicked on the desktopx.exe file or the welcome.exe file nothing happened. I don't understand.

Steve

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Bichur
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 8:50 PM
is it separate or did you get the whole ObjectDesktop package?
does it show in the start menu?

Steve Colclough
Reply #6 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 1:39 PM
Solved the problem. I just re-installed DTX and now all is well. Thank you for your help.

Steve

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