Windows 8 Privacy

[Janneh]

Hi,

So me and other family members have separate user accounts on Windows 8. All of which are password protected. So how come when another user installs solitaire on their account, it shows up on my desktop and start screen. Surely the whole point of having your own user account is so that you keep that kind of thing separate and have your own applications on your own user account?!

Is there a way of making this happen, keeping my user account private and not having my applications go on their user account or vice versa?

 

[rpstewart]

This has been normal behaviour since before XP. Windows has the concept of an All_users "user" which provides a shared profile to allow apps etc to be installed for everyone to use.

Normally an install program will let you choose who can use an application - "just me" or "all users on this computer" are the usual choices

 

[Janneh]

where is this option, when i go on the store and click on an app, it just installs, I don't get any option to just save it to my account

 

[theheyes]

Your user account data is "private", your application installs are pretty much at the discretion of the developer.

 

[theheyes]

If you mean metro apps, these should not appear for other users. At least they don't for me.

 

[DeathStorm]

If you mean metro apps, these should not appear for other users. At least they don't for me.

You're correct Metro apps work differently to traditional windows software. On the plus side you don't interfere with other users but that also means if you update they won't also be updated (good or bad depending on your viewpoint). As an added bonus you can move between machines and do the refresh option while having your metro apps preserved.

 

[theheyes]

When you say update, do you mean update the app itself or update it with user data?

Because yes, user data is kept in the local profile separate from other users but the app executable itself should actually be the same.