How do I use a separate installation of the Adobe apps?

[Jiehfeng]

I am working for a company that has given me creative cloud and now I have a problem of using Adobe apps for personal use.

They can apparently track and see what I do with them so it's not an option for me to use their account to do my work.

Is there some way I can create another installation of Adobe apps separate to this one? I need to stay logged in as well, they informed me not to log out.

Maybe a separate OS installation, dual boot Windows? Could someone help with a solution?

 

[Pleng]

You've already suggested dual boot with a separate OS installation, but having to reboot all the time is a PITA. So you could use VmPlayer or Virtual Box to host the alternate operating system install to prevent the need to keep rebooting.

 

[FAST6191]

Four main approaches if dual boot is impractical (and it is, fine for games but less fine for anything vaguely in the productivity realm)

1) Virtual machine. I like virtualbox myself but plenty of others out there. Might slam the resources a bit (though modern stuff is good) and comes with the added perk of being readily backed up and transported to new machines.
2) Paravirtualisation. Normally considered a *nix only affair but there are windows options there if you are a bit more creative with the interpretation of the windows license.
3) Sandbox. Don't know how well this will work for Adobe stuff but easy enough to test I suppose. See sandboxie plus as a jumping off point here. https://sandboxie-plus.com/
4) Get another computer. "but but but I don't want two mice/monitors/keyboards..." I agree and this is why we have a KVM switch. Buy the hardware one if you can for while there are software options... somehow they work less well on a local LAN than I find but your mileage and all that https://en.softonic.com/top/virtual-kvm-software

 

[yuyuyup]

Use "portable" installs but don't install something screwy, that's on you