Preferences

This page contains miscellaneous preferences that don't fit elsewhere.

s h o w d i a l s t a t u s d i a l o g
s h o w o n l y w h i l e d i a l i n g / h a n g i n g u p . . .

The dial status dialog was added to ease people into wconnect's icon--if they notice it at all. Here you can control if the Dial Status windows is shown, and whether it should automagically dissapear once your connected/disconnected, or wait for you to hit 'Okay'. Edit to taste.

a d v a n c e d u s e r

Flexibility can be more harm than good. Imagine a user who, when things aren't working, edits any setting in sight and then complains that their dialup program doesn't work (I really know people like this); this checkbox is to help protect against them. While checked some of the less safe settings on other pages are editable; when unchecked a user can't edit these settings.

Another way to stop users editing settings is to remove the Properties window from the menu; but this has to be done from the config file.

This used to be available only as a commandline switch (/a) but that got irritating so its available as a checkbox--which obviosuly lessens its usefulness. Greater protection can be obtained by prefixinf lines in wconnect.cf with the word 'global': wconnect ignores the user's value of a global parameter whenever it starts up so restarting wconnect will always yield a sensible set of values.

This is not inteded to be security, just tamper protection. Even if on a read-only share, wconnect is avaialble for download off the web by anyone who can master a search engine and an ftp program.

s t a r t u p a f t e r s h u t d o w n

If wconnect is running when you logout shutdown or reboot then wconnect will be running next time you startup, unless you uncheck this box. If you exit wconnect then it doesn't matter how this box is checked, wconnect will not run next time you start windows.

Wconnect uses the registry key \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\wconnect to manage startup. With startup_after_shutdown set, wconnect will overwrite the key at shutdown--but not before. And the key is cleared only when you exit (or shutdown, with startup_after_shutdown off) and only if it points at the copy of wconnect that is exiting; so if windows should crash, wconnect's autostart will be the same as last time you logged-in.

l a n g u a g e

Specify the language wconnect should use. The default is Same as Windows which means wconnect uses whatever language Windows is setup with--if wconnect supports it. Guus Vd Brink wanted to be able to overide that; overriding it's also useful for me to test other language files. No-one else is likely to want to change it.

Currently only Dutch and English are supported--send me your message files; messages.txt has more info on writing message files. Wconnect automatically reloads any message files that have changed when you apply the properties dialog.