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Old 11-29-2017, 07:14 AM   #318
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
That doesn't sound like "installed for a single user" to me. Anybody could make a shortcut to Program Files. What you're describing sounds like "installed for all users, only configured for one." Why even make a distinction between installed for one/installed for all if the only difference between the two is a shortcut?
Because the idea is that if you install it for user "A" and you subsequently decide that you want it to be available to user "B" as well, it's simply a case of setting up the appropriate configuration for user B, rather than installing a complete duplicate of the application. Ie executables are common, but configuration is user-specific. (That's exactly what Calibre does, for example.)

How do other operating systems handle this?

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