Some features of ActiveExit depend on the support of the operating system it's used on, and not all versions of Windows provide the necessary support to work for them properly. Here is the list of such limitations:

Windows 95

The Protect ActiveExit settings in the registry and Protect screen saver settings in the registry options are not supported by Windows 95, and therefore are not offered by ActiveExit configuration utility.

Windows Me/98

If you have selected the option to protect the Suspend/Hibernate commands with a password (available on the Passwords page of the configuration utility), Windows may show the following message when you choose the Standby or Suspend command: "Your computer cannot go on standby because a device driver or a program won’t allow it". This message may be covered by the password prompt shown by ActiveExit. To continue the suspend operation, you need to close the message, and then enter your password. Or, if you have entered your password before closing the message, simply choose the Standby command once again, and this time it should proceed without prompting you for the password or displaying the error message.

"Force application termination" option may cause system instability

If you have selected the "Force application termination" option (available on the Screen saver page of the Configuration utility ), Windows may become unstable when the Windows session is ending. This may be caused by the fact that when the "Force application termination" option is used, it causes Windows to terminate the running programs abnormally, without giving them a chance to save the opened documents and perform other cleanup tasks. Also, if you use this option, other features of ActiveExit (such as the Taskbar icon, or the Run program before Windows exit) may not work properly, too. If you experience such problems, please turn off the "Force application termination" option. If you must use this option, try to change the default action to be performed by the ActiveExit screensaver: for example, instead of "Log off", you may try to select "Restart": such a change may result in the better overall stability of the system.

Windows NT 4.0

• The Lock computer command is not available.

• If you specify a program to run on the Run page of the configuration utility, and do not choose to display a confirmation before running the program, the program may fail to run. To solve this problem, you need to enable the confirmation message to be shown before running the program. If you don’t want the users to be able to cancel the operation, you can specify to display the countdown bar for 0 second, or to hide the Cancel button on the confirmation message.

• When you install ActiveExit screensaver with the confirmation prompt, it is not possible to use the OK or Pause buttons on that prompt, because due to design of Windows NT 4.0, when you press any key or move the mouse, it just cancels the screensaver operation and returns to the user desktop. The only action that the user can perform when the confirmation prompt is displayed is Cancel.