Any way to have 2 separate setups on same PC?

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Any way to have 2 separate setups on same PC?

Postby amraa » Sun May 11, 2014 8:13 am

Hi,
I'd like to have a second setup on an encrypted drive. How do I separate the two? I've copied the program files, edited the NBI to point to the new folders, but it just activated the existing setup.

What will happen if I remove the entry in the registry that tells it where to find the data file? will it default to taking it from the folder it was started from?

Thanks.
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Re: Any way to have 2 separate setups on same PC?

Postby itimpi » Sun May 11, 2014 8:26 am

If you create a shortcut for launching a particular Newsbin binary, and pass in the full path of the .nbi file you want to use as a parameter then it will launch using that configuration file regardless of the current setting of the registry key that points to then last used .nbi file.
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Re: Any way to have 2 separate setups on same PC?

Postby Quade » Sun May 11, 2014 9:38 am

I've copied the program files, edited the NBI to point to the new folders,


Itimpi is correct. You don't even need another copy of the program files. Just two shortcuts and two NBI's.
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Re: Any way to have 2 separate setups on same PC?

Postby amraa » Sun May 11, 2014 11:46 am

itimpi wrote:If you create a shortcut for launching a particular Newsbin binary, and pass in the full path of the .nbi file you want to use as a parameter then it will launch using that configuration file regardless of the current setting of the registry key that points to then last used .nbi file.


That works :D thanks!


I'll tag this: multiple instance instances dual parallel installation
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