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Questions about FS9 on computers with user accounts

Mick

Mick

SOH-CM-2025
I have some questions about FS9 on computers with user accounts.

Nobody else uses my computer, so the only user is me, the "owner", and I'm permanently logged in on that account. Now my best friend has asked me to help his two sons set up FS9, and their two family computers are set up with individual accounts for the the parents and the kids, so I'll be working in that environment for the first time.

Tom never did anything with FS because he has two kids in high school and a wife who's a lawyer, and he just couldn't ever get any computer time to explore FS, and now he's had a stroke and he can't control a joystick or a mouse. Meanwhile, the two boys went for their Boy Scout aviation merit badges, and that seems to have awakened their interest in flight, and they loaded FS9 into the family computers. Now they want me to help them set it up with settings, fights, scenery and planes.

I've noticed how the FS9.cfg file lives in a sub-folder in the owner account folder, and that makes me suspect that in a family computer where each person has an account, they would each have their own FS9.cfg file with their own preferred settings. Is that correct? Does this mean that every time we make a settings change, we have to have each user sign in and repeat the changes, or copy the new cfg file into the other accounts?

Each account folder also has a sub-folder full of aircraft folders, just empty folders with aircraft names. Does this mean that whoever's account is signed in only gets to see the planes that were loaded when they were logged in, and not those that were loaded when someone else was logged in?

What about scenery and other stuff?

How do operating systems fit into this situation? The kids have a hand-me down compute that runs WinXP, which is what I run, so I know I won't have any problems there. But the big, powerful main family computer runs either Vista (or maybe Seven, I'm not sure which) and I've read of folks having trouble doing things in FS because the operating system's security system won't allow them to make changes to CFG files or to load gauges that are exe files. Do you have to have administrator privileges or something? I doubt that the kids have admin privileges on the 'puter mom uses in her law practice. They definitely want to set up FS on both 'puters because they're networked and they want to fly together in multiplayer mode.

I have a feeling that I'm walking into quicksand here. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
 
I've considered doing this on my other PC. The kids like to fly also, and there are three people that use it.
...What I was going to do was create an account called FS2004 and install under that login. Then everyone would have access and there would be no future troubles with anyone elses stand-alone accounts.
 
you should be fine with a single install by specifying in the security tab that the program should be availible to anyone who uses the computer. Install FS2004 and then rightclick on the icon. specify properties and in the window that pops up there should be a security tab that let's you regulate who uses that particular program. In Windows seven you specify the users byname but in some older systems you only had the choice of yourself or anybody using the computer HTH
 
norab said:
you should be fine with a single install by specifying in the security tab that the program should be availible to anyone who uses the computer....
Click to expand...

Thank you.

I take it you mean in Vista or Seven? I just checked it out on my own system (XP) and no security tab exists. But then, in XP I haven't heard about folks not being able to add or edit files.
 
Mick,
I believe that all the "issues" about users being able to add or edit files under Vista and Win7 are a result of the UAC. The simplest way to avoid that situation altogether is to install FS9 somewhere other than "Program Files" and "Program Files(x86)" - either on another hard drive if one is available or in, say, C:\FS9.

Hope that helps,
Ro
 
Thank you!

Before we start tweaking and loading up scenery and planes I'll get them to uninstall and reinstall outside of Program Files. That will be simple because at this point all they have is a box-stock FS9 without even the MS 9.1 patch.

Your idea might save us a lot of trouble!
 
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