Prevent ExamDiff Pro from checking for updates at machine level
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 3:37 pm
Our users don't have admin rights to install anything themselves, so they won't be able to action any installs found under Check for updates. some of our users are behind a proxy server that denies them access to the internet for their admin accounts, so the check times out anyway.
As we regularly check the site for new versions and roll them out on our schedule, we'd like to untick Check for new version on startup for all users at install time, so that a user never sees the "Would you like to check whether an updated version of ExamDiff Pro is available".
Can you please advise how to do this for all users, not just per-user? If it's not built-in functionality, can you perhaps add this to the next beta?
If I untick the box, I see that the following key is set:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PrestoSoft\ExamDiff Pro\Settings]
"Check for updates"=dword:00000000
What would be ideal... ExamDiff Pro first checks for the existence of:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PrestoSoft\ExamDiff Pro\Settings]
"Check for updates"=dword:00000000
If that key (which users do not have write privileges to) is set to 0, then this disables updates, no matter what the user has set it to. Or, allow us to set a switch in on the installation command-line or in setup.inf to disable it.
Perhaps make this ExamDiff Pro-only functionality to further differentiate the two editions.
As we regularly check the site for new versions and roll them out on our schedule, we'd like to untick Check for new version on startup for all users at install time, so that a user never sees the "Would you like to check whether an updated version of ExamDiff Pro is available".
Can you please advise how to do this for all users, not just per-user? If it's not built-in functionality, can you perhaps add this to the next beta?
If I untick the box, I see that the following key is set:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PrestoSoft\ExamDiff Pro\Settings]
"Check for updates"=dword:00000000
What would be ideal... ExamDiff Pro first checks for the existence of:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PrestoSoft\ExamDiff Pro\Settings]
"Check for updates"=dword:00000000
If that key (which users do not have write privileges to) is set to 0, then this disables updates, no matter what the user has set it to. Or, allow us to set a switch in on the installation command-line or in setup.inf to disable it.
Perhaps make this ExamDiff Pro-only functionality to further differentiate the two editions.