Desktop and portable install on same PC to separate project types?

[Michelist]

The advantage of having two or more user accounts is that, firstly, you don’t have to juggle batch files and therefore can’t accidentally forget something.

Secondly, you can run all installations at the same time, provided you have enough RAM available.

Thirdly, you have completely independent installations, which can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. But I see it more as a positive, because you can optimize each installation according to its intended role.

Fourthly, if you need to create bundles more often, you can set up a version in another user account just for this purpose. A version for bundling is best freed from the standard resources that can be bundled beforehand, so that you can selectively copy only those resources that you want to have in the bundle and do not have to search for them in the vast number of other resources of your daily used version. Once a bundle has been successfully created, you can clean the portable installation of the required resources and, after restarting Krita, you can thoroughly test the bundle free of possible interference from other resources.
If you want, then I’ll prepare a portable version of Krita for you, so you don’t have to strip out the unneeded resources from it. Or I can provide a batch file that will free any portable version from these resources when you run it on the portable version.

Another advantage is that if you actually damage an installation, you always have an alternative installation to hand.

Once I described the process in short, you can find it here (there you can see a screenshot with seven versions of Krita running side by side on my PC):

Want to try Krita 5 Beta

You can also run the version of Krita to be tested, after you have created a new user account, from your standard user account. If you use the command “runas /user:NEW-USERNAME” with a shortcut, or start the shortcut to the Krita installation of the new account each time by right clicking on the shortcut and selecting the menu item “Run as different user…”, where you then enter the name and password of the new account each time. For this I have set up shortcuts that pass this command as a param…

This screenshot from a different topic shows my current “batch” of Krita-Installations to select from:

In case you need a better description of the process, I can help you with that, just tell me where you are stuck, with a brief explanation of what worked or worked not.
But I’ll probably can not help before tomorrow, because I’m tired, and my eyes tell me it is time to inspect the inner side of my eye-lids.

Michelist