I was looking at this problem before I was told of this thread. Excellent work by the way but I (by luck) came up with a different solution to having two commander accounts under two different users. Just thought I'd share. Your solution has the benefit of having a single game directory but I think this solution should survive an update, but you will still need to download the update twice. [blah]
Start ED in your PC primary account as usual, once the game has started close the launcher.
From your primary PC account create a .bat file with a shortcut to your desktop.
.bat file contains the command:
runas /user:"<2nd windows PC user account name>" /savecred "C:\Program Files (x86)\Frontier\EDLaunch\EDLaunch.exe"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Frontier\EDLaunch\EDLaunch.exe is the location and executable of the generic ED launcher and it picks up from the user profile the different settings.
The first time you run this you will need to enter your 2nd account password.
Now if you want to play under your primary commander you start the game as usual. And if you want to play as your 2nd commander from your primary windows account just run the .bat file. You can also run both at the same time but I do take a performance hit.
The Steam question, if your using 1 steam account and 1 local PC account you don't need this you can just run either or both from your same windows account but remember to close the ED launcher after starting the first instance.
Start ED in your PC primary account as usual, once the game has started close the launcher.
From your primary PC account create a .bat file with a shortcut to your desktop.
.bat file contains the command:
runas /user:"<2nd windows PC user account name>" /savecred "C:\Program Files (x86)\Frontier\EDLaunch\EDLaunch.exe"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Frontier\EDLaunch\EDLaunch.exe is the location and executable of the generic ED launcher and it picks up from the user profile the different settings.
The first time you run this you will need to enter your 2nd account password.
Now if you want to play under your primary commander you start the game as usual. And if you want to play as your 2nd commander from your primary windows account just run the .bat file. You can also run both at the same time but I do take a performance hit.
The Steam question, if your using 1 steam account and 1 local PC account you don't need this you can just run either or both from your same windows account but remember to close the ED launcher after starting the first instance.
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