Install visual studio for current user ONLY?

Question

_{Tuesday, February 2, 2010 9:28 PM}

I have a separate user named Dev to keep my ordinary user free from all development tools and programs running in the background. How do I tell VS2008 to install all the programs and services to the CURRENT user only, and not to ALL users?
Im using Windows 7 64 bits (Swedish if thats relevant?) and installs VS2008 Professional Edition (from MSDNAA).

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_{Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:06 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Mrhuss,

Welcome to MSDN forums.

As far as I know, by default, Visual Studio 2008 installation doesn't support to install for one specific user. There seems to be no option that makes you choose to install it to All users or Current user.
After some search on the Internet, I still cannot find some related document or article.

However, here is a trick I think that you can have a try. When we launch Visual Studio, it will run Devenv.exe file. This file is located at .....Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe.
We might give the permission to users to run this file. For example, only Administrator can run this file.
We can right click this file >> Properties >> go to "Security" tab. Then we can give the permission.

Hope this helps! Let me know if it works.

Best regards,
Yichun ChenPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
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_{Saturday, January 27, 2018 4:38 PM}

Hi Mrhuss,

Welcome to MSDN forums.

As far as I know, by default, Visual Studio 2008 installation doesn't support to install for one specific user. There seems to be no option that makes you choose to install it to All users or Current user.
After some search on the Internet, I still cannot find some related document or article.

However, here is a trick I think that you can have a try. When we launch Visual Studio, it will run Devenv.exe file. This file is located at .....Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe.
We might give the permission to users to run this file. For example, only Administrator can run this file.
We can right click this file >> Properties >> go to "Security" tab. Then we can give the permission.

Hope this helps! Let me know if it works.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
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Thank you for this answer Yichun.

However, for both Yichun's reference and any others that might stumble across here, I suspect the OP's objective was to install VS to a single user so that the services and software required for VS only run when that user is logged on in order to save on system resources.

If there are anyone out there that would like to give any ideas on how to achieve this, I and probably many others would highly appreciate it.

Thanks