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There is a chance that you may find yourself wanting to have multiple
user profiles for for some application. While this document looks
specifically at UT2004, the principles will remain the same for most
applications, and you need only learn how to specify the profile to the
application.
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Now, there are numerous reasons why you may want to have multiple profiles for an appliction.  For UT2004, they may include:

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<li>You share the same computer with family, friends or co-workers to play UT2004.
</li><li>You may have different user settings for different game types
</li><li>You may play with different user names on different servers.
</li></ul>Since many readers will be playing UT2004 using some form of
Windows, this process will currently look at how to do this on those
platforms, and even I find it a extremely simple process. For someone
who hates Windows, and have avoided learning as much as possible about
it, that is saying quite a bit!
The steps for creating are as follows:
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<li>Create a new shortcut on your desktop.
You can do this in one of two ways. You may copy a shortcut which
already exists on your desktop and paste a new copy there, or you may
go through the Start menu and create a shortcut that way. While a
little more complex, if you have already done this once, it will
actually be easier in the long run to copy an existing shortcut, as you
probably will not need to add/change as much text. </li><li>Edit the properties of the shortcut.
To do this, right click on the new shortcut, and select the properties
item from the popup menu. Once you have done this, you will want make
sure that the target reads something like the following: <b>\System\UT2004.exe USERINI=User_myuser.ini</b>

The result of adding the ``USERINI=User_myuser.ini'' to the command is that UT2004 will read the user configuration from <b>User_myuser.ini</b> in your <b>UT2004\System</b> directory, creating it from the file <b>DefUser.ini</b> if necessary.  Without this, UT2004 will instead use the name of <b>User.ini</b> for its user configuration file.

</li><li>Rename your shortcut
Needless to say, whether you have three or three dozen shortcuts on
your desktop for playing UT2004, you don't want to have to fight to
figure out which one is which. So, before you save your changes to the
shortcut properties, there is something we will want to do. Click on
the ``General'' tab at the top of the window. You will now see an entry
box at the top of the screen with the name of the shortcut. Change this
from ``Copy of XXX'' to a more meaningful name, such as ``UT2004
myuser''. Now, click the ``OK'' button at the bottom of the window, and
your changes will be saved.
</li><li>Copy your template User.ini into place.
This is an optional step if you are creating a configuration from the
beginning. But if you are wanting to have the same customized key
binding, player name, skin, UT2004 Stats ID, etc., then you will want
to copy the user configuration file upon which you will be making your
changes to the name you used in the target. To do this, you will go to
your UT2004 system directory, and copy your old config file to the new
name.
</li><li>Fire off UT2004, and make your changes.
The last thing you need to do is to fire off UT2004 and make your
desired settings changes. Click on your new shortcut, and away you go.
You should know how to do the settings changes by now. The only thing
to be aware of is that when you specify the user configuration file,
instead of going to the main menu, you will instead see a message
stating ``Connection failed'' every time you run the program. This is
due to a long standing bug which has existed since UT:GOTY and has
never been fixed. A nuisance, but a minor one, as at this point, you
are also presented with buttons which you can click to get to the main
menu, the server browser, or exit UT2004.
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Have fun!