Hello,
My wife and I both play wow. Sometimes she wants to play on my computer while i’m at work. I set her up with a guest account on my computer, but when she plays wow, it brings up my addons, and my keybind/interface settings and such.
If she changes them, it changes for mine as well. I was wondering if there is a way to set up the install, or game settings to keep that separate for each windows account on the computer or something.
Does your wife have her own Blizzard Warcraft account and separate Battle.net login?
youd prob have to set up a copy of wow on 2 different directories and for her launcher point it towards the alternate location as the cache and add on folders will sit with the game files. Alternatively if she doesnt use add ons she could just disable them while she uses it and not change the settings
I’d recommend you guys create a separate battle net account. Or account sharing, but on her own computer. I do not know how Battle Net Account sharing works 100%, but I do have a friend of mine that shares with someone.
Please be careful, account sharing (even multiple accounts under the same bnet account) is explicitly disallowed unless one of you is the other’s minor child.
OP is account sharing right now, or else it wouldn’t update their keybinds. I agree with the above recommendation, OP, for the health of your account. I think you and your wife should be using different battle net accounts.
The account/user profile you are using on the computer would not have any bearing on your WoW settings if they are tied to your computer and not that user profile.
Okay, thank you for letting me know about the Account Sharing thing, when I was writing that I wasn’t 100% sure how it worked really.
For clarity, We each have our own separate Bnet and Warcraft accounts. So we’re not account sharing. She just wants to log in on her account, in my office on my computer. But the settings and addons and such are shared, which we don’t want to happen.
if you have hdd / ssd drive space … make two folders named something like World of Warcraft 1 and World of Warcraft 2 (and put shortcuts to the deasktop … Battle.net Launcher.exe 1 & WoW.exe 1 and Battle.net Launcher.exe 2 & WoW.exe 2 ) one with addons / settings and one with out … don’t foreget to point the launcher(s) to the wow folders
You don’t even need to put shortcuts on the desktop when doing that. Simply aim the launcher at the particular folder for WoW1 or WoW2 when logged in to the launcher. Log out, then have the other person log in, and point the launcher at the other WoW folder for the game which would include addons. Also, do not use an auto-updater for addons when doing this as it would get confused at 2 separate addon folders and possibly mix the addons up for each person.
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