With the Host Settings dialog box, you can change your guest preferences on the fly, during an active screen-sharing session.
To open the Host Settings dialog box, open the screen-sharing window's system menu and choose Host Settings. (The Host Settings option is available only when the screen-sharing host is a Windows computer.)
Changes you make in the Host Settings dialog box apply only to the active screen-sharing session. They will not be applied to subsequent screen-sharing sessions.
Select Blank Screen to activate secure screen blanking. Secure screen blanking is a Timbuktu Pro security feature that prevents unauthorized viewing of a computer's screen while it is being controlled by a remote user. See Secure Screen Blanking. (The Blank Screen option will be available only if the host computer allows you to force the screen to blank.)
Select Disable Desktop Wallpaper to remove the Windows wallpaper from the remote computer's desktop while you control or observe the computer.
Select Disable Active Desktop to disable Active Desktop on the remote computer while you control or observe the computer.
Select Disable Animations to disable desktop animations on the remote computer while you control or observe the computer.
Select Disable Full Window Drag to disable full window drag (in which the window's contents are displayed while it is dragged) on the remote computer while you control or observe the computer.
Select Disable Screen Saver to prevent the screen saver from running on the remote computer while you control or observe the computer.
Select an option from the Filter drop-down list to force a color-depth reduction before screen-sharing data is sent from the host computer to your computer.
During your remote-control session, Timbuktu Pro checks the Filter setting on both the host and guest computer. The more restrictive (faster) setting is used. (If the host computer is hosting multiple guest connections simultaneously, the most restrictive Filter setting is used for all sessions.)
Note: If these settings are not enabled on the host computer, but enabled on the guest computer, the guest settings will be used during the screen-sharing session. However, if these settings are enabled on the host computer, the guest computer cannot disable them. If the host computer is hosting multiple guest connections simultaneously, the settings for all guest computers are "combined," and the same settings are used for each connection.