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Thread: Any way to hide the agent's taskbar icon? |
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Former Member
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I have access to several public computers and would like to run the client on them, but I don't want people messing with the program. Is there a way to run the clients in "hidden" mode?
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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have access to several public computers and would like to run the client on them, but I don't want people messing with the program. Is there a way to run the clients in "hidden" mode? Sure. http://windows.about.com/library/tips/bltip501.htm
Rick Alther
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joatmon
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 185 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you use the properties to always hide the icon, people can still see it by expanding the system tray to display the hidden icons, just click on the << down there. If you really want it to not be there at all, then you need to do something different.
One word of caution to everybody, I remember reading a news story some months ago about a government employee who had the seti@home agent loaded on a bunch of computers at work, and since he was not authorized to do so, he got fired when he got caught. So, although it's a good cause and we all want lots of points, be sure that if you load the WCG agent on a computer, you will not get in trouble if the wrong person finds out. |
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Former Member
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joatmon makes a very good point. Unless you are running this program on your personally-owned computer, you MUST have official permission. He is referring to an incident in Ohio around the beginning of October that is reported here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/11/seti_man_sacked/ Please use good sense and avoid getting fired the way this man was. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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Thanks for the information!
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Former Member
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PLease,,,PLZ! do NOT Trojan WCG on the web to think ya'll doing GOOD.
it was done recently on F@H and that IDIOT didn't know what hit'em when the powers-to-be chastized him. Let the people decide. |
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