Question about single user games on XP multi user computer

shewolf · Jan 13, 2007

Ok tried to search for single user games in MG but didn't come up with anything.
So....

Background:
What I have is one computer (Windows XP pro) for both of my children and they both like to download and play games on it. I have found that there are a few games that are "single" user games (puzzle express as an example you can play the game and save it but if another user goes to play it they have to either select saved game or new game if they select new game and wish to save their game it overwrites the other player's saved game).

Question:
Is there any way multiple users on one computer can play the same single player game without overwriting the other player's saved game?

Hopefully I am making sense and I am asking this in the right place.

Thanks to anyone that can help me find a solution to this.
Darla aka shewolf

Major Attitude · Jan 13, 2007

Only if the game supports profiles, ie, seperate usernames. What you can try to do is copy the game to a second location and see if it runs. If so, you can usually create a shortcut to each game for each user. I would create a games folder for neatness, install games there, then make a new subfolder of games to hold a copy, for example C:\Games\PuzzleExpress2 and then copy the executeable to the desktop for easy launch.

Possible problem:
If the data is stored elsewhere (sometimes My Documents, for example) then they share the same file to save game info, so that wont work.

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