ActiveExit Overview |
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ActiveExit Overview |
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Thank you for choosing ActiveExit Classic Edition!
ActiveExit™ Classic Edition is a set of tools that let you control various aspects of Windows exit. With ActiveExit you can:
You can use ActiveExit to automatically logoff the user, restart or lock the computer, or otherwise end Windows session after a period of user inactivity. You may find this option useful if you are in charge of a large network, and users often forget to logoff from their accounts, leaving their desktops accessible to unauthorized users.
To provide for such functionality, ActiveExit includes a special purpose screen saver, that, unlike the regular screensavers which just draw pretty pictures on the screen, ends the user session the way your specify. If you set up ActiveExit screensaver, it would be launched by Windows after a period of user inactivity, just like a regular Windows screensaver, and the action you specify with the configuration utility would be performed.
To set up the ActiveExit screensaver, use the Screen Saver page of ActiveExit configuration utility. You can also use it to customize the messages shown by ActiveExit to the user before actually ending the Windows session.
Note that you cannot use the Display command of Windows Control Panel to set up ActiveExit screensaver; you must use the ActiveExit configuration utility to set it up properly. Also, if the user had a regular screensaver previously set up for his or her account, that regular screensaver will no longer be active, and Control Panel will show that no screensaver is used. When you clear the option to use ActiveExit screensaver, or after you uninstall ActiveExit, the regular screensaver settings for each user would restored to what they were before you enabled ActiveExit screensaver.
ActiveExit lets you specify a program to run automatically each time before the end of the Windows session (that is, before the user logs off, restarts the computer, etc.). You can use this capability of ActiveExit if, for example, you want to remind yourself about running the backup program each time you finish your work, or if you have a legacy program that needs to be manually shut down before exiting Windows.
To set up the program to run before Windows exit, use the Run page of ActiveExit configuration utility. You can also use it to customize the messages shown by ActiveExit before and/or after running the program.
Note that only one such command may be set up with ActiveExit. If you want to run several programs before exiting Windows, put such commands into a batch or script file, and set up ActiveExit to run the batch or script file.
You can use ActiveExit to set up a password that would be prompted for every time a user attempts to exit Windows (by logging off, restarting, shutting down, suspending, or hibernating it). Only if the user enters a correct password, ActiveExit would allow Windows session to end.
To set up such a password and select the events which should be protected with it, use the Passwords page of ActiveExit configuration utility. You can also change the texts of the messages displayed on the password prompt.
Note that such a protection would not work if the user would have pressed the Reset or Power buttons on the computer case (or interrupted the power supply to the computer in some other way), so if you are concerned about such user actions, you should take additional steps to restrict physical access to the Reset and Power buttons.
Note also that Windows XP and other NT-based versions of Windows (that is Windows 2000 and NT4) provide an alternative way of restricting the restart and shutdown operations, by allowing the administrator to remove the appropriate privileges from the user accounts. However, that method does not let you prevent the logoff command, nor does it let you set up a password, like ActiveExit does.
You can use ActiveExit to install an icon in the Windows taskbar notification area (next to the system clock) that would let you quickly access the logoff, shutdown and other similar commands:
To install such an icon, use the Taskbar page of the ActiveExit configuration utility. You can also select which commands to display on the menu of the icon, as well as instruct ActiveExit to display a confirmation before actually performing the command you've chosen from the menu.
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