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- WHATSNEW.TXT: New WinU Features
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- WinU Version 3.1, released December 2, 1996
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- License Meter Management: if your organization has, say, ten licenses
- for a particular program, you can ensure that no more than ten users
- are accessing that program simultaneously.
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- Dynamic configuration update: if desired, WinU will look for config
- data files at startup in whatever directory you designate (perhaps
- on a server). If found, they will replace the current configuration
- with whatever setup data they contain, allowing you to add or change
- all desks, buttons, passwords, or options dynamically and remotely.
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- WinU now disables the Delete key and right-click context menus in
- File | Open and other Common Dialogs, and in Explorer's right-side
- pane. This prevents using the Delete key to delete files from
- Common Dialogs, or using right-click context menus as a backdoor way
- to run unauthorized programs.
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- Strengthened "third-party window" processing, to more vigorously
- remove such windows when they are not allowed. Exceptions can now
- be specified, windows that are allowed to remain visible even when
- "third-party" windows are prohibited.
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- "Third-party" windows can now be disallowed for individual desks, in
- addition to allowing or disallowing them systemwide as before.
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- Button label text is no longer required. A WinU button can now be
- just an icon in a button border. This is set in the Button Style
- section of the Appearance And Sound tab.
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- Added the PrevDesk button type. If created on the desktop by the
- administrator, user can go back to the previously-visited desk by
- clicking on the button. The last 100 visited desks are available.
- Like all buttons, a PrevDesk button can be password-protected.
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- New wallpaper option: display background bitmap at its actual size
- (not stretched to fit available space). This is good for text and
- other finely detailed images.
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- New wallpaper option: tile the background bitmap. This option will
- copy the bitmap as many times as required to fill the space.
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- New sound option: loop (play repeatedly) the desk logon sound when
- no program is currently running.
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- New desk icons for DeskLink, PrevDesk, Exit, and Shutdown buttons.
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- Modified the method of tracking time used in a desk so that it is
- saved when exiting for MS-DOS mode or an unanticipated shutdown.
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- Saving of parameters when returning from system setup or desk
- setup is now much faster.
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- New interface for the Clone Setup Builder which requires the
- password for the computer being cloned. This is a security
- measure to ensure that one WinU user can't clone another WinU
- user's computer.
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- Many elements are now encrypted and double-checked in various
- ways to help ensure that they are not abused.
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- Password dialog times out and vanishes if not used in 30 seconds.
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- New error-message dialog times out and vanishes in 20 seconds.
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- Now doing the keyboard/mouse inactivity monitor in a more reliable way.
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- Can now deny use of the boot-time startup menu when disabling boot-time
- function keys.
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- Now doing remote password management in a more reliable way. Changed
- password file format to accomodate this. Added "usable once only"
- remote passwords.
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- Previously, using a particular remote pasword could indicate the minutes
- per logon session. Now you can also indicate minutes per day or minutes
- per week to be associated with a particular remote password.
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- Previously, per-computer cumulative time limits could indicate minutes per
- day, per week, or simply total minutes (when they're used up, they're gone).
- Now you can also indicate minutes per logon session as a per-computer
- cumulative time test.
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- Previously, the desktop's cumulative time counter only lost time when a
- program from that desk was actually running. If no program was running,
- the clock didn't lose time. In this version, the desktop timer keeps
- running whether a program is running or not. So, regardless of whether
- the time limits are imposed by the password file parameters or from the
- local machine's setup, they work the same way.
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- Remote file passwords are no longer case sensitive. Passwords set up
- locally are case sensitive only if the new "case sensitive" box is checked.
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- WinU Version 3.0, released September 16, 1996
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- Easier system administration, especially when managing a number of WinU
- machines on a network: clone-able buttons, desks, or entire installations,
- centrally managed password and timeout control, more detailed event
- logging, built-in usage reports and graphs. Inactivity timout. Cleaner
- tabbed-dialog interface. Status bar. More flexible visual interface
- options (wallpaper, button styles, show/hide the menu and status bar).
- Attach sound to WinU events. New navigation elements: DeskLink, Exit, and
- Shutdown buttons. Button options to AutoRun a program at desk logon, keep
- program running until desk logoff, and allow a program to continue to run
- after exiting from the desk it was started from. Can now run Shortcuts,
- including shortcuts to printers, Dial-Up Networking, or other Win95
- components. Ultra-robust Kiosk Mode for the most demanding public-access
- situations. Built-in Explorer window for when you need access to the full
- computer (with password control of course). Much better when tracking
- modem-using apps. Blockout periods: times when nothing on that desk will
- run (for example "Every Tuesday 9 pm to 11 pm" or "Every weekday 7:30 pm
- to 8:30 pm"). Can disable CD-ROM autorun. QuickNotes, so you can attach
- a little message to a logfile record when exiting a program (perhaps for
- billing purposes). And the proverbial Much More.
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- WinU Version 2.0, released January 31, 1996
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- Numerous new features including Super Security mode, multiple
- desktops, Administration Maintenance mode, settable background
- color, keyboard control, highlighted focus button, right-click
- Properties screens for buttons and desktops, can run multiple
- programs concurrently, per-button password protection, improved
- Help system, more.
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- WinU Version 1.0, released August 24, 1995
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- Initial release, on the same day that Windows 95 was released.
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