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- From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
- Subject: Re: Multiple windows apps at the same time (how)?
- Message-ID: <mike00215930022211449@batpad.lgb.ca.us>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 04:14:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.221213.17643@matrix.com>
- Organization: The Batchelor Pad
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- bfw@matrix.com (Byron F. Warner) writes:
- >
- >
- > I would like to know how have multiple users run windows
- > on different displays at the same time. Whenever I start windows
- > with 'rsh saturn winx', i get windows to come up. But after that
- > I can't run anything else, Desqview/X puts up a message saying
- > File Not Found or No Password if I try to run something else while
- > windows is running. I would like to have multiple
- > people running windows apps at the same time. Can this be done?
-
- The only legal way to do it is to buy a separate copy of Windows for
- each user, and have them install their own copy on the DV/X machine,
- in their own directory. Something less than that could probably be a
- violation of the license agreement for the Windows software.
-
- Aside from that consideration, you should be able to do it if you can
- find out which files two copies of Windows cannot share, set up each
- user with their own directory containing those un-sharable files, and
- figure out how to tell the Windows running in a skeleton directory
- where the real directory with the shared files is located.
- Probably for executables, all you need to do is set the path. For
- drivers and other things like that, you can probably set those up in
- the .ini files. Whatever can't be setup that way, probably needs to
- be made available in the skeleton user directories. An important
- consideration is, where is each copy putting its temp files?
-
- I imagine it's not too different from setting up a network version to
- handle multiple users. Perhaps a network version of Windows is what
- you need.
-
- I'm also assuming you have enough memory for multiple copies of
- Windows to run in.
-
-
-
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- [] Mike Batchelor <> Long Beach, California
- [] mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us <or> mikebat@qdeck.com
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