Hooray for encrypted home directories
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Answer, enable virtualized folder (through local policy) and don't let Steam elevate at all. Those files will then be written to somewhere inside user's folder. But now you have another completely different set of problem.
Hint: It used to be default in Vista and Microsoft disabled it by default in Win7, go figure.
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I see no point in logging out of all my stuff just so they can use Steam. As I said, I am supervising.
Fast User Switching, man...
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They have different computers, but they refuse to play games on anything other than mine. I supervise.
... wait.
You do realize you can have more than one user on a computer, right? Is that the confusion here?
So you're basically IGNORING the Windows feature that has been present for decades and is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THE EXACT THING YOU ARE DOING, then complaining that Bethesda should have somehow telepathically known you'd be ignoring that feature and doing things wrong and compensated for it?
Is that what you're saying?
Jesus Christ, Ben.
Well in that case, Portal 2 also allows 800 saves, so you're just talking out of your ass.
Portal 2 probably does also allow 800 saves. WTF are you talking about?
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I see no point in logging out of all my stuff just so they can use Steam.
So use Fast User Switching, then. That was in fucking Windows XP.
Ben, are you in a timepod? WTF.
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Really, there's a Windows feature designed for letting family members use a specific program on my computer while keeping the other programs I have open running and without letting them log in without my supervision? I wasn't aware that Microsoft had planned that far ahead.
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Really, there's a Windows feature designed for letting family members use a specific program on my computer while keeping the other programs I have open running and without letting them log in without my supervision?
Well the last bit "without your supervision" is missing, but if you have the other two bits I'm not sure why you'd care.
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Actually that's covered too, if only Ben knows the password... For once I agree with @Blakey here - Ben, you're being TRWTF...
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Actually that's covered too, if only Ben knows the password...
Actually right, I didn't think of that. Ben just needs to not tell his family members their passwords (and disable user changing of passwords in the Computer Management snap-in)-- now they have no way of logging in without him present.
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Yes. You can add extra accounts, and use fast user switching. As long as you don't give them your password and you disable the shutdown option in all but your account (you can do that in XP. I assume it's still there in 7) they can't mess with your programs.
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Yes.
We need a silver version of "Somebody didn't get the joke" for someone who also didn't realize they got trolled.
(Oh, it turns out that that badge is silver, so....)
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Why would I make a whole separate OS account for something that doesn't need separate permissions and happens when I'm at my computer?
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Why would I make a whole separate OS account for something that doesn't need separate permissions and happens when I'm at my computer?
So Skyrim saves would go in the right place.
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Why would I make a whole separate OS account for something that doesn't need separate permissions and happens when I'm at my computer?
Because what you're doing is the Windows equivalent of having your family sleep in your bed, but you sit over them all night watching to make sure they don't drool on your pillow.
Only (probably) without the creepiness that would entail.
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Which of these is more work:
- stop steam, log out of a user account, log into another user account, start steam, play skyrim
- rename folder, play skyrim, rename folder back
Hint: even if they're the same amount of work, new features start at -100 points
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(Psst... I think Ben really didn't know Fast User Switching existed and now he's trying to cover for it.)
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stop steam, log out of a user account, log into another user account,start steam, play skyrimFTFY because the most you'd have to do is log in on the other account.
Also with FUS you don't need to actually log out. Ditto with using Run As to run Steam, because--get this--you can have programs running as multiple users simultaneously.
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Last I checked, Steam wouldn't let you log into the same user account in multiple places unless the other ones are using Steam Mobile (which is just a glorified messenger).
Having said that, Steam Family Sharing is a thing.
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I know. That's why I said "log in to the other account." Run steam on the other (WIndows) user, it'll log you out of the first instance.
Or you can run Steam offline.
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Steam wouldn't let you log into the same user account in multiple places unless the other ones are using Steam Mobile (which is just a glorified messenger).
My 2 computers with Steam logged in simultaneously might disagree with that statement
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My 2 computers with Steam logged in simultaneously might disagree with that statement
"Are they using the same Steam account, and are both in online mode," he asked, while looking askance at @sloosecannon.
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Yup
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So in the spirit of sharing the forum love, try pasting the following into a non-elevated cmd window on Windows:
echo.+^|+>+.cmd&+</blockquote>
That was evil and I have to hate you now.
Right after I figure out how to kill the cmd window without rebooting.
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Last I checked, Steam wouldn't let you log into the same user account in multiple places unless the other ones are using Steam Mobile (which is just a glorified messenger).
When did you last check? They fixed that years ago.
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If Steam is running on my account, it's already listening on the Steam ports locally. I can't start up another instance of Steam on the same machine.
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Details, bub, details.
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@Scott Meyer's Master of Formalities said:
Good evening. Know that two thousand, one hundred, and seventy-one conventional years will pass before the Terran Exodus. Today is the fifty-sixth day of the third month. We meet on the planet Earth, on a website known as What The Daily WTF. I am TwelveBaud, Master of Formalities of the House "Side Bar", and I am informing you that Steam In-Home Streaming has been a thing for several years. I apologize for the delay in your emergence from the time pod.
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Do I smell a forkbombed @Rhywden in the corner?
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That's pretty nice.
What's nicer is that my CPU's only at 28% so I can ignore it and reboot at my leisure.
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Oh, you're one of those people...
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No, just an i5 with 8GB RAM. I wanted to see what would happen--the only adverse effect I noticed was that some of the fonts in Task Manager got hosed and used the old Windows 3.1 dialog font. And eventually I had 6000+ processes, I think about 100K threads, and memory usage was steadily climbing. At 7 of 8GB memory in use I rebooted. Well, tried to, really. For some reason Windows wasn't able to actually restart and just put me back at the desktop. Eventually I pulled the plug.
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Yay for Discolaggyscriptscroll and failing to scroll, but instead like a post!