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My OS is win 10 pro 64 bit and I have a Lennovo M72e pc. I have more than 1 User, both being administrative. My Q is, say if log in as User A, install a software, and then reboot and login as User B, will the installed software under User A be still available for User B to use, or will it function for User B. I am talking about anti virus software. Thank u for your response.
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You are very welcome and I was happy to help. Sleep Well :)
To put the dots over "i": any given software may or may not give the choice to install for all users. The vast majority is installed for all users (so called "per machine" installation).
If you deploy software by group policy, things become somewhat more complicated: it will install per-machine or per-user depending on whether you publish it in the group policy under "machine configuration" or "user configuration".
The easy way to tell is to check the location of the shortcut installed by the software (of the shortcut itself, not of the file it points to), whether it's located under "all users" menu or one user.
As John said, A/V software it practically guaranteed to be installed per-machine.
If you deploy software by group policy, things become somewhat more complicated: it will install per-machine or per-user depending on whether you publish it in the group policy under "machine configuration" or "user configuration".
The easy way to tell is to check the location of the shortcut installed by the software (of the shortcut itself, not of the file it points to), whether it's located under "all users" menu or one user.
As John said, A/V software it practically guaranteed to be installed per-machine.
If you want to sleep well, never use accounts with admin rights to logon to a PC to. Only use standard accounts. When you need admin rights UAC will come up and allow you to do that task by using the account and login of an Admin user.
As was mentioned, normal software installs globally, but the per user settings for the software can be different, so normally the first time a user starts a program he will have to configure it for his requirements.
As was mentioned, normal software installs globally, but the per user settings for the software can be different, so normally the first time a user starts a program he will have to configure it for his requirements.
rindi - in ideal world, sure. In the real one, even Windows Media Player wouldn't work on regular account (this was a while ago though, maybe it's fixed in later versions - but still remarkable). Not to mention 1,000 of other software titles whose vendors consider themselves too big, important, and special to follow the guidelines. The higher the price, the more likely it becomes that installation manual will insist on installing it in c:\.
I've not had any problems with any software when run as standard user. As Windows Media Player is useless anyway, I never use that. VLC is much better, and you can get it as a portableapp, which most of the software I use is. And as I mentioned, UAC works very well.
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