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2 (window) accounts, 1 Bat! account
 
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I would like to set up TB! as follows:

Install it as admin, use it as user. The same TB! account for both admin and (only one) user.

How can I do that? I installed it as admin, set it up, copied the desktop icon to the user. Now I need to set up another account there as well.

Thanks for any advice,

Jos
 
 
 
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you have to put the mail folder that TheBat! points to in the admin account to into a "public" folder that all the users can access and write to (only if you are using NTFS as filesystem).
You could then open regedit (as the admin) and export the keys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\ to a registry file (right click on that tree and choose export). As the normal user just doubleclick that registry file and you should be able to import all the settings.
OR as the normal user start TB! do not make an account but point TheBat! to the mail folder (not quite sure how to do that exactly, haven't had to do that in years :))
 
 
 
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Jos,

What you want is my current setup and like Dominik says, it depends a bit on your setup.
With NTFS as filesystem you need to have permission for all (involved) users to access the directory you're using for mail directory.

TB's default install drops the mail directory somewhere inaccessible for other users. so create a directory like C:\Mail and configure TB to use that as mail directory, for your admin account you do that by changing the mail directory to that location (Options -> Preferences -> System -> Mail Directory) that used to move all files to the new location, but it's some time ago since I tried that, so I don't know whether that behaviour remained unchanged.

For the plain user you just run TB. It'll find that there is no account defined and asks whether you want to create a new account or restore a backup. Go for new account. Next question is what mail directory you want, that's an easy one, because that'll bee the directory you defined for the admin account.
In the past the next step was  to create all accounts with the same name as they're called for the admin user, but I don't know whether that's still necessary. It isn't when you're using OTFE like me. For me TB recognizeed all accounts when I pointed to the mail directory.
(That's how I configured TB on my new PC, copied the mail directory to my new pc and pointed TB to it.)
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Great! Thanks for the advice. It's been a long time ago I did system work. One tends to forget the basics...

My pc crashed, and I want to install programs from the admin account, but run them trough a user account. Nobody else will work on my pc. Hence the set up.
 
 
 
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