My sons share a minecraft account. On our desktop they have their own users. How do I make minecraft accessible from both user accounts? Do I need to download it for each user? Or can I somehow import it from the admin user to their users? They aren't looking for their own minecraft ID, just access through their own PC user account rather than having to go through mine.
Minecraft used by two users on same desktop
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You can set the Minecraft Directory in the Profile Editor.
Go to "Edit Profile", and check "Game Directory" for each profile. The game will create new folders for saves, resourcepacks and logs. It will continue to use the appropriate version you selected for the profile (found in the "versions" folder), rather than download the game files again.
You can then move the saves you have to the save folders for the correct profile.
I have a similar setup and to work around the problem I did the following:
- Install Minecraft in your child's account.
- Run the Forge installer, it should ask for the username/password of an administrator
- Enter your username/password to allow the Forge installer to start. Forge should now show the directory it is going to install in to. This will default to the administrator's Minecraft folder and not the child's Minecraft folder.
- Change the folder where Forge is going to install to to be the Minecraft folder of your child's Window's account.
- Let the installation complete as normal.
Now when Minecraft is started on the child's account, Forge should be available.
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Best Answer
You can download the minecraft.exe from minecraft.net and move it to an independent location (like
C:/program files/minecraft/) and place a link there on both Desktops or copy it to both Desktops directly.To make a link just right-click the file and click on
send to...-DesktopEither way you can now start Minecraft with both user accounts (and still have the possibility for different resource packs and/or settings).