Multi User Applications

Is there some way I can run an application (eg a browser or a sticky
notes) so that the same process is available to all user accounts.

So if I'm in Account A and I have my browser running and I switch to
Account B I take my browser with me and I see the same stickies in
Account B that I saw in Account A.

I guess it would run as user NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM that's what my
scanners run under, and there's only instance if those. But they're
also running as a service - Firefox as a Service - now there's a thought


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Urbane.Tiger

Hi,

Probably not as the design of Vista has applications running from within the
individual user environment, not the system environment. While you may be
able to have some basic settings apply to all, porting an active application
from one account to another is not possible as this would be seen as a
security risk (think about a virus porting itself from one user account to
another as an example of why this wouldn't be allowed).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Urbane.Tiger" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Is there some way I can run an application (eg a browser or a sticky
> notes) so that the same process is available to all user accounts.
>
> So if I'm in Account A and I have my browser running and I switch to
> Account B I take my browser with me and I see the same stickies in
> Account B that I saw in Account A.
>
> I guess it would run as user NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM that's what my
> scanners run under, and there's only instance if those. But they're
> also running as a service - Firefox as a Service - now there's a thought
>
>
> --
> Urbane.Tiger

For anyone who's interested I have managed to effect something like the
behaviour of as mutiuser system in Vista Business Edition. One program I
want to have running in all user accounts is a sticky notes program (Zhorn
Software's Stickies), I also want to show the same sticky notes. Here's
what I do.

Stop the program, pause 2 seconds, start the program with the Task Scheduler
on the trigger "workstation unlock",
Stop the program with the Task Scheduler on the trigger local disconnect or
workstation lock (any user).

Stopping is done via a StopStickies program provided by Zhorn, it is
preferred to TaskKill because when it's used the systray icon is removed,
whereas when TaskKill is used the systray icon is not removed, resulting in
duplicate systray icons.

To facilitate data sharing junction directories are utilised. The Stickies
program ordinarily puts its data into a directory
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Stickies. I have a directory
C:\Users\Public\CommonData\Stickies, I have junctioned each of the
....%username%AppData\Roaming\Stickies directories to that folder.

I have not applied the same technique to Firefox. Fx does not like being
"killed", it reports the last session as having crashed if it was not
terminated via the red exit button or exit menu item. What's needed is a
stopFirefox program, that behaves similarly to the stopStickies program -
i.e. terminate Fx as though the menu exit option had been used. An
additional setting in Fx's session restore options may also be required to
have it behave a'la an Fx restart, i.e. restore last session without asking.


"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:#DdQmPU#...
> Hi,
>
> Probably not as the design of Vista has applications running from within
> the individual user environment, not the system environment. While you may
> be able to have some basic settings apply to all, porting an active
> application from one account to another is not possible as this would be
> seen as a security risk (think about a virus porting itself from one user
> account to another as an example of why this wouldn't be allowed).
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Urbane.Tiger" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> Is there some way I can run an application (eg a browser or a sticky
>> notes) so that the same process is available to all user accounts.
>>
>> So if I'm in Account A and I have my browser running and I switch to
>> Account B I take my browser with me and I see the same stickies in
>> Account B that I saw in Account A.
>>
>> I guess it would run as user NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM that's what my
>> scanners run under, and there's only instance if those. But they're
>> also running as a service - Firefox as a Service - now there's a thought
>>
>>
>> --
>> Urbane.Tiger
>