Another user is running this copy of opera when clicking links.

Another user is running this copy of opera when clicking links.

So yeah I get the error message saying "Another user is running this copy of opera when clicking links. You should install Opera with individual profiles to allow multiple users to run the same copy independently" whenever I click a link from outlook, msn or wherever.

I still get it if opera is already runnind when I click the link. No problem opening several windows or tabs either. It is just when I am clicking links. Opera IS also installed with multiple users, and there is only one user (administrator) on this PC.

Opera had been working perfectly for ages, and then this just happened a few days ago for no apparent reasons, did not change any settings or anything like that.

Try setting your default browser to Internet Explorer, then reinstall your current version of Opera (run the installer again) and check the option to set Opera as your default browser. The next time you run Opera, if you get a "Opera is not your default browser" message, tell it to make Opera your default. This should reset the registry settings for how other programs open Opera, which fixes some problems with Opera doing strange things when other programs open a web page. I don't know if it fixes this specific problem, but it's worth a try.

To set IE as the default browser, open IE and open "Internet Options" from the Tools menu. In the Programs tab, click "Make Default".

"Another user is running this copy of Opera."

Can someone PLEASE help rid me of this ancient deamon which was reborne on my PC after I updated to 10.60?
I was NOT given an option to, "...install Opera with individual profiles..."

I am the only user on this PC.
The message/warning pops-up spontaneously, unexpectecly, throughout the day. There is no obvious trigger.

Is there anything I can do short of wiping Opera out of existance from my hard drive and registry and starting over?

I have tried moving/copying various Opera items from ...\Users\Paul\Appdata\Roaming to ...Appdata\Local, and, even, ...\ProgramFiles\Opera\... But I've tried this blindly without knowing what (and IF) I really should move. AND, I can't find an INI file or registry key that contains the the various Opera file paths contained in "Browser identification."

I wish I didn't like this #%@$& browser so much!

Hi pauler45 -

Please can you tell us your OS and flavour, and do you have an admin account as well as a user account?

When I updated to 10.6 I wasn't given the multiple user option either -- it did it automatically as far as I could see. But when I cleaned it out and (clean) reinstalled 9.51 I was given the option.

Gordon.

The "Another user is running this copy of Opera" error sometimes appears when you close Opera, then start a new instance before the previous one has finished closing. I haven't seen this error otherwise, so if that isn't the problem, I'm stumped.

gorodn
I'm running Opera 10.60 on Windows 7 Ultimate.
My user account on this PC has Admin rights.

spadija
As I said, "The message/warning pops-up spontaneously, unexpectecly, throughout the day. There is no obvious trigger."
It has nothing to do with closing/re-opening Opera or any other action on my part.

...and this is not the only problem I'm having with Opera. I also cannot copy and paste text into the address bar, search bar or any text boxes on any web page. This second problem is also sporadic and spontaneous. I can temporarily fix it by quitting and restarting Opera. I don't know if the two problems are related, but I will be using MSIE (Yuck!) for now - at least until I feel ambitious enough to totally wipe Opera and start over.

BTW, quitting and restarting Opera does NOT fix the first problem - not ever.

...thanks

If I was you I'd clean install Opera

Yah, I keep seeing the same "generic" complaints about 10.60 on these forums -- too many to list. I'm one who upgraded, then had weird unsolveable problems and went back to 9.51. It's about all I can suggest at the moment.

spadija has a good suggestion. I didn't think much of it until tonight, when I couldn't delete a folder. Turns out an instance of PaintShop Pro hadn't been properly killed -- I only found it in Task Manager. It was hanging onto the folder.

There is one thing, may or may not be relevant... But it's a golden rule on PCs... Never, ever, for any reason at all, run as Administrator. It opens too many doors. If you need privileges, give yourself a Power User (W2K usage), but limit the potential damage by keeping the Admin office door closed -- and firmly locked with an 11 or 12-character password. Some gurus recommend you change "Administrator" to some 10+char bizarro word on top of everything else. I've seen so many machines compromised -- OK, raped and looted -- while being used with Admin rights. These rights are given to anything that creeps up the modem while you are working: they get the same privileges you have...

Gordon.

Originally posted by gorodn:

There is one thing, may or may not be relevant... But it's a golden rule on PCs... Never, ever, for any reason at all, run as Administrator. It opens too many doors.

That's not as relevant if you're using Vista/Win 7, since UAC was designed to address exactly that problem.

If a clean install doesn't fix the problem, that means there is most likely something wrong in the registry. The process I described in my first post fixes some registry problems.

You might also try using Revo Uninstaller to rip out everything Opera's uninstaller might have left behind and do another clean install.

Yup, guys, on Win 7 I gave myself admin priviledges, but that's not quite the same as being logged-in as "Admin."
Sometimes I'll try something that requires administrator permission and a pop-up gives me a warning to that effect. I can USUALLY click through that and accomplish the task, but NOT always (then I have to apply some work-around). It keeps me out of trouble, though.

I guess I'll bite-the-bullet and totally re-install Opera. If 10.60 still won't cooperate, I'll retro to 9.51...
BUT, I gotta wonder why, if Opera doesn't work without INDIVIDUAL PROFILES (Obviously it doesn't) then why does the install offer it as an option?

I used Chrome for more than two years and liked it, but it had a habit of crashing every 6-8 months such that no amount of cleaning and re-installing would fix it. About a year ago I found the solution on some forum but have since forgotten it. So, when Chrome crashed again three or four months ago I just laid it to rest permanently. I mean, if they can't fix a known bug after two years - or even acknowledge its existance...

Now there is a new beta of Firebird that sounds promising, but I'm really hoping that I can, once-and-for-all, settle down with Opera.

Thanks, Guys...

...Paul

@spadija -

Originally posted by spadija:

That's not as relevant if you're using Vista/Win 7, since UAC was designed to address exactly that problem.

I cannot believe Micro$oft finally closed the door

@pauler45 - Even 10.60 should have installed as single user if you didn't choose multi-user. But you should remember that you really do have a multi-user system: your Admin account is a user, even if you don't normally use it. As spadija says, you may want to put the dunny-brush through the registry after uninstalling Opera. Actually this is a good idea for any app -- there are very few that do a clean uninstall, I'm trying to think of one now... No, nothing comes to mind.

I do know that when I updated to 10.60 it saw the 9.51 multi-user mode and simply assumed I would want the same thing again. That's about the only thing it got right... And when I put the mukowt through the registry 9.51 did ask me if I wanted a multi-user install.

Gordon.