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    Sharing my laptop (with partition)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by perrin_aybara, Oct 2, 2009.

  1. perrin_aybara

    perrin_aybara Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all, I have an acer aspire 2930z, quite a nice l/top. The thing is, I have a partitioned hard drive and my wife likes to download/play and install games and music. I have allocated these folders to partitioned drive (d). When she opens/ installs these items, they have shortcuts on the desktop(c). Now what I would like to know is can I make drive D partition bootable with it's own desktop?
    any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
     
    perrin_aybara, Oct 2, 2009
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  2. Amnesiac

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    Create your own user and delete the icons?
     
    Amnesiac, Oct 2, 2009
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    perrin_aybara Notebook Consultant

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    Yes that is an option, but can i have a user account on my other partition? so we can both have our own 125gb to use.

    cheers :)
     
    perrin_aybara, Oct 3, 2009
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  4. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    You can set the other user profile to be looking at the other partition at all time for data and 3rd party apps.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Oct 3, 2009
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  5. Nebelwand

    Nebelwand Notebook Consultant

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    Since she seems to have/need admin rights that won't stop her from installing stuff that modifies the entire OS/other accounts.

    You could have a separate Windows installation just for her on the second partition. Delete her account/password protect yours on the first install so she doesn't use it by accident (she'll have to choose her own Windows install on bootup).

    Even better, consider buying her her own laptop for the next birthday/anniversary/...
     
    Nebelwand, Oct 3, 2009
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  6. gmoneyphatstyle

    gmoneyphatstyle Notebook Deity

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    Yes, here's how
    http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1371

    As mentioned, you'll need to create a separate user account for each of you. You'll each have your own desktop.
    This doesn't mean that if she installs malware (any bad software) that your user files will be protected. The only way to do that, as far as I know, would be to use separate computers.

    Installing Vista on two separate partitions on the one computer has the advantage of keeping the OS totally separate for each user, but again, if she installs malware your data would still be at risk (to the best of my knowledge). This is more complicated though, and something I've never tried.
     
    gmoneyphatstyle, Oct 3, 2009
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