I don’t think you have to create duplicate copies of 4D. I an not on Windows but have a client who is on Windows 10 and he is able to have multiple instances of the same 4D client running at the same time on the same machine, each connected to different 4D servers.
John > On Apr 2, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Kevin Abraham via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > Don’t tell me Windows 10 for 4Dv16.2 has broken this but it is incredibly > easy and we have been doing this with up to 4 Servers since v6 all the way to > v13, so I would be very surprised if this ability was changed by Window or 4D. > > Simply go find your 4D Installation, in my case 4D v13.3 in Program Files > (x86). Then make as many copies of that 4D folder as you need, in your case 1 > and in my case 4. They will be named 4D v13.3 - Copy, Copy(2), etc. by > windows when you create them in Program Files. Then simply create a shortcut > to each 4D.exe and put them on the desktop. If you have 4 installed copies of > 4D you will have 4 Shorcuts to 4 different 4D.exe files and can connect to up > to 4 different Servers at the same time. > > Now what you can’t do, is connect any more than one of them to a single > Server at the same time, i.e. you can not have 2 Clients connected to the > same server at the same time (at least not the way I described above, maybe > someone knows how, but not me). > > Good Luck, > Kevin Abraham > Digital Retirement Solutions > kabra...@drs401k.com > >> On Apr 2, 2020, at 1:13 PM, Ken Geiger Gmail via 4D_Tech >> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Dumb question. I have a customer with two 4D C/S databases that are running >> simultaneously on two instances of 4D Server. He would like to launch two >> instances of 4D Client on his workstation so he dies not have to keep >> quitting and launching the Client to access either of his apps. Windows 10, >> 4D 16.2. >> >> Regards, >> >> Ken Geiger >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com >> ********************************************************************** > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
