Ironically Tom, all my audio games seem to have survived the process
unscathed. It's my text adventure and none audio games which haven't faired
so well, ---- though sinse many (though by no means all), of those
originally came as Zip folders which I personally then created program
groups for it's understandable, ----- though even the ones which installed
Exe files have had this problem for some odd reason.
It just shows that obviously all the Audiogame dev's had their heads screwed
on regarding user accounts.
About multi-user environments in general, i personally would give a lot to
have precisely the opposite option.
I've always used my own computers myself, and been the only person doing so.
In fact other than buisnesses or institutional networks I'd always advocate
one person use their own computer if at all possible sinse that way they get
most familiar with things (my mum, who is a novice computer user, and my
brother who is very advance had extreme problems in this manner when they
attempted to share a desktop using multiple accounts).
My mum as a consequence has no idea of basic file structure or where things
are stored, ---- or even how to open documents without directly using ms
word.
Some of my weerder dosbox style programs i think I'm going to have to
reinstall rather than playing hunt the run file, ---- though this is
certainly less of a pest than it might have been.
I'm most impressed with Hal, which seems to be able to run independently of
all user account shinanigans, ---- despite the orphius issue.
I even managed to run it in default windows profile.
Beware the grue!
dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crisis averted
Hi Dark,
Glad to see you have the problem under control. As for the missing icons
there really isn't anything strange about that really. Some programs
install icons to your local user account's start menu folder rather than
globally to the default start menu folder. The end result is if you create
a new account the icons come up missing. The easiest way to fix that
little problem is to copy those icons from the local start menu folder to
the default "all users" start menu folder. Once you do that it doesn't
matter if you have 1 or 100 user accounts they all have access to the
icons.
As it happens you aren't the only one that has user account woes in this
area. Unlike Linux developers that always assumes a multiuser environment
far too many Windows developers program software for a single user
environment. For those of us who run Windows in a multiuser environment it
gets to be a pain, because there really isn't any excuse to program
software for a single user environment. With the release of Vista and
Windows 7 Microsoft beginning to kick developers in the butt, and letting
them get use to the idea of programming for a multiuser environment. The
only problem is it is hard to break developers of bad habbits formed ages
ago.
Smile.
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