IT Management

• Whenever a user does not own a computer or a computer is a shared resource, it may be advisable to lock down certain options in DisplayClone.

-For example, we may not want:

• To permit a user to close DisplayClone.
• To permit them to modify the startup behavior.
• To put vulgar language in the action Narrations. (such as students may do for classroom disruption or pranks)
• To change target-FPS, Capture Mode, the display of the mouse cursor, the number of freezes to keep, whether or not snapshots are stored to disk, etc, etc..

Example restricted user-view:

• The management interface only works with site-licenses.
• Start the program with the "-admin" command-line argument to display additional administrative features.

• The software must be fully closed and launched fresh to use the -admin argument.

• Launching the software requires administrative-rights (meaning, a UAC prompt or flat out denied depending your permissions).  This should help in restricting usage to only IT staff.
• When in administration mode a file named admin.dcs is written to the program-folder.  (eg, "C:\Program Files (x86)\DisplayClone")

• When not launched in administration mode, settings are overrided from admin.dcs rather than the user's settings for each setting where LOCK was set to TRUE.

-The overriden settings cannot be altered via right click menu, typing, or otherwise.

-It would be wise to check that Windows' file permissions are sufficient for admin.dcs on client computers to prevent its deletion.

• There is also an additional tab of settings (while in administration mode) for further restricting program functionality rather than just locking individual settings.