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voyageur
02-08-2005, 11:54 AM
My colleague has VPC 6 with Windows2000 installed on his PowerBook running 10.3. I installed it under his main account. He has a also Guest User account on the PB, and would like guests to be able to access VPC also. However, when we launch VPC under the Guest account, it acts like it wants to reinstall Windows2000 all over again: the Windows install Wizard comes up. This seems crazy; surely I don't have to install Windows for every user account? The Guest user account is set up to have access to all applications.

I can't find anything covering this in the VPC documentation. The only relevant info (to my non-expert mind) I could find was that each PC created by VPC is saved in a User's Documents folder. So that would suggest I create a new PC for each User. Fine; but does this mean I have to reinstall Windows for each User too?

Raven
02-08-2005, 12:45 PM
A new PC means a new install of Windows... When you switch to another user account, since aat that piunt VPC cannot access data in the other user's folder, it loks for configs and such, but since it cannot find any info, it will act as if this was the first run... Would not know how to have VPC point to another location for the PC part though... haven't used it since version 5 !

voyageur
02-08-2005, 03:00 PM
Raven, thanks for the quick reply. I'll go ahead and install Windows again, then.