Cello Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Hey guys,I've been wondering about this for awhile now and never really took the time to see if this worked. I checked Google but it keeps coming up with the opposite of what i'm looking for.I'm currently converting about 30~ some episodes into a different file format and it's going to take quite some time. Say somebody else wanted to hop onto the computer and switch to their user account while mine is logged in converting videos. So long as they didn't log out of my user account and just chose the option to switch users, would the program that's converting these files still run?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 From theory it should still run, since switching users doesn't close down any programs, keeps them all running. But I can't say, never tried that and I only used PC with one user (me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cello Posted January 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Ah I see. I guess the only thing to do really is to try it. I just didn't want it to mess up in the middle of the conversion or something before I went testing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Alright tell me how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cello Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Yup, it works! Downloads queued in a download management program seem to slow down but I image that's due to others using the internet. But the conversions continued just fine. I left the computer while it converted about 22 episodes.I just had to make sure that the account was never logged out or the computer never went to sleep/hibernated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Oh ok that's good to know. I never had the need to make more than one account on any computer, if my family wants to use it I just let him use my account. Nothing wrong with that =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegenius05 Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Having multiple profiles logged in at the same time will allow all the applications running continuing to run. The down side is RAM usage increased. So, you'll notice more HDD activity unless you have enough RAM. To see if you have enough RAM to handle multiple profiles, run "Resource Monitor" and check the RAM usage. You can then decide whether to add more RAM or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezelbubba Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 you could also get a vpc spun up on your windows 7 boxvirtural box, vmware player, and windows 7 has a win xp virtural machine built insurf with out virus damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwjwin Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 switch user not pause or kill running program, that's all I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragnawind Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 switch user not pause or kill running program, that's all I knowIt actually can, but there are very few programs it affects. I forgot which ones, but some that I used, which I don't remember the names of did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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