Until recently, Windows 10 store games could only be played when connected to the internet. Microsoft has thankfully changed this, but as usual, they had to make things complicated: You can only have one “designated offline device” at a time.

How to Set Your Designated Offline Device

How to Set Your Password in Windows 8.1. When you need to beef up your tablet with more features, you have an app for that: the Windows Store app. As programmers write more apps to fill in different niches, Windows 8 keeps growing, and best of all, most of the apps are free. Tap the Games category, for example,. In the past, iOS users could download free apps without being asked for a password. However, recent iOS updates force users to type their passwords every time they download apps from the store, no matter if it is a paid app or not.

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If you have multiple Windows 10 devices, you’ll need to mark a single one as your “designated offline device” while online before you can play games.

Require Password To Download Programs

Warning: You can only change your designated offline device three times a year. For comparison, Steam doesn’t restrict you to a single offline device at all, and there’s certainly no yearly limit to your gaming PCs. This is yet another good reason to avoid buying games on the Windows Store if possible.

To change your designated offline device, open the Store app, click your profile picture icon, and select “Settings”.

Scroll down to the “Offline Permissions” section and ensure the “Make this PC the one I use to run some games or apps that have limited licenses, even when I’m offline” slider is set to “On”.

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Change the setting once and you’ll be informed that you can only change the setting 2 more times in the next 365 days.

Set Up Your Games

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You’ll now want to set up your games so they’ll perform offline. Not every game supports offline play, but most games in the Store do. Any network multiplayer features won’t be functional and score leaderboards won’t be available, but any in-game achievements you earn will be granted to you the next time you connect to Xbox Live on that device. The achievement popups won’t actually appear until you connect to the Internet once again.

To ensure a game will run offline, install that game and then launch it while connected to the Internet. The game will set itself up, acquire any necessary license information, and download any data it needs to function.

To confirm a game will actually function when you’re offline, you can temporarily disable your Internet connection. Close the game and head to Settings > Network & Internet > Airplane Mode. Either enable “Airplane Mode” or disable the “Wi-Fi” slider to disable your wireless Internet connection.

Attempt to launch the game while you’re offline and see if it functions. If it does, you’re good to go. You can take your computer somewhere without an Internet connection and continue playing games normally.

Sharing the same computer with others can give you hard time to keep people from running or executing your personal software applications or games. The good news is you can protect sensitive applications on the computer from an unauthorized access by password protecting the programs.

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By password protecting the applications, only you who know the correct password can run the programs. Here are two tools that you can use to password protect any applications on your Windows.

Game Protector

Game Protector is a freeware that can protects any game with a password. Not only games, this tool also allow you to password protect any application on your Windows as long as it is executable (.exe) formatted file.

Game Protector has a straight-forward interface. To password protect any game or application, first you have to browse and select the executable file of the game or application. After that, enter the password to protect the file.

Game Protector has a good feature that allows you to change the icon and the file name of the executable. It is very good to use on your personal games, so that they just look the same as other normal programs in your Windows. For example, you can let “World of Warcraft” seem as one “Excel” document, so your boss or parents can’t find these games that you are playing.

The final step is to click the “Protect” button. Before that, you can check the “Create Backup” option to create a backup. Once protected with passwords, your games and applications executable files are safe from unauthorized runs both on your computer, and even when you copy it to other computers.

When any user tries to open the game or application, a window will pop up and prompts for a password. So there is no way other people can launch your program unless they know the password. To remove the password or to unprotect the executable, click the “Unprotect” button.

Empathy

Empathy is a free and lightweight portable utility that allows you to password protect any executable (.exe) file on your computer. This freeware can modify an exe file so that it will require a password to open.

The steps to set password to your executable file is the similar to Game Protector. On the main window of Empathy, you browse for the executable file that you want to protect with password, then type in the password. After that, click on the “Protect” button. Like Game Protector, you can create backup. Use the “Unprotect” button to remove the password protection.

Once an application is protected, it will stay protected even if you copy them to another location or even to another computer, no matter which operating system do they use.