Hi:
I would like to know if there's a way to hide ( editing from registry ) some configuration options like "EnableLogging" and "LogDirectory" to not appear in the main configuration window.
Hi:
Look, my problem is that I installed Messenger Plus on many of the machines I manage in my cybercafe. Users ask for plus! , but I want to hide some configuration windows, because users abuse sometimes of these settings... I don't want to store useless chats on these computers, and besides some users respect that, some not, and chatlogs keep appearing.
If chatlogs are the problem, then the only thing you can do is to either:
- Scan the PC's for chatlogs and delete them (after the user has left, or before someone starts using a PC).
- Use a HDD image, and copy/restore that to the HDD everytime a new session/user starts (this is done in many cybercafe's). This ensures each user starts with a clean, properly set up computer. This also eliminates other misconfigurations or messed up PC's by the user (and also eliminates that some malicious person install stuff on another PC so he can "watch over it" or look things up after the user has left).
PS: Even if you could change it in Messenger Plus!, the malicious person who wants to abuse such things would always be able to alter the registry (or if not admin: by other means) anyways. And this doesn't go only for Plus!, but for MSN Messenger itself; heck for every program which is run on the PC. So hiding such things in Plus! wouldn't solve that...
This post was edited on 11-03-2005 at 05:03 PM by CookieRevised.
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