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New version 7.11 of Secure Desktop

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:38:54 UT

Changes for Secure Desktop 7.11!

- Using the Window Wizard, if the minimize and/or maximize system menu
items are removed, the minimize and/or maximize buttons in the upper
right corner will be disabled.
- If you remove one or the other, the buttons will be visible but
disabled.
- If you remove both minimize and maximize, the buttons will no longer

Secure Desktop 7.10 Released!

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:51:15 UT

New Features for Secure Desktop 7.10!

- Internet Explorer 8 Support.
- Added ability to force a window to be "Always-On-Top" using Window
Wizard.
- Added Shift-Right Mouse click support to sControl.exe.

The Always-On-Top and Control Panel Features were customer requests.
Thanks for helping us to improve Secure Desktop!

New Secure Desktop 7.01

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:47:06 UT

Changes for 7.01

- Icon tooltips may be causing an error, slight change was made to try
to correct this.

- If a value in the sDesktop.xml file should have been an integer, but
wasn't, an error would occur. This has been fixed.

- If Secure Desktop tried to start a program that didn't exist, an

New Secure Desktop 7 for Windows XP, Vista, Internet Explorer 6 or 7, and Mozilla Firefox 2 or 3

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:45:38 UT

New Secure Desktop 7!

Secure Desktop 7 represents our single biggest re-design, largely due
to native support of Windows Vista. It was necessary to change how we
store the Secure Desktop configuration data, how registry
modifications are made, and even Secure Desktop help. Because of these
changes, we have taken this opportunity to re-design the user

Secure Desktop 6.85

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:34:17 UT

Changes for 6.85
* Improved Administrator detection, previously we checked for
local Administrator only.
* Updated iLock to version 2.0, to support Mozilla Firefox 2.0.

Secure Desktop 6.84

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:34:43 UT

New Features for 6.84
- Added checkbox to enable opening a new window in Internet Explorer 6.
Previously, it was always disabled when IE6 was in Full Screen mode.
This checkbox also disables Ctrl-N system-wide.
- Added Vista detection so that Secure Desktop 6.84 can not run in
Vista. Secure Desktop 7 will be designed for Vista.

New Secure Desktop 6.83!

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:40:12 UT

New Features for 6.83
* Added checkbox to disable Close/Minimize buttons in Internet
Explorer 6. Previously, they were always disabled when IE6 was in Full
Screen mode. The Restore button is always disabled to keep IE6 in Full
Screen mode.
* Added checkbox to enable Local File access in IE6, but only when

New Secure Desktop 6.82 and ColdKey 3.02

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:40:59 UT

New Features for 6.82
* Internet Explorer 6 Dialog
o Added Tab called Approved Sites to aid in creating a
white-list using Internet Explorer's Content Advisor
o Start in Full Screen Mode checkbox now disables Alt-E,
Alt-F, Alt-T, and Alt-V system-wide
o New checkbox to enable Printing and Print Button. If

Secure Desktop 6.81 Released!

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:56:16 UT

We've just released a new version of Secure Desktop, as follows:
- Added the ability to disable USB storage devices (OS Registry
dialog).
- Added Firefox dialog to easily start/re-start Firefox and install the
iLock Firefox extension.
- Fixed a couple of tab order user interface items.
Please contact us with any questions or comments! - Duane

New Secure Desktop 6.80 with New iLock 1.5

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:38:47 UT

Happy New Year!
The Browser is the Desktop
Secure Desktop 6 plus Firefox 1.5 or Internet Explorer 6 is simply the
best way to create a browser-based desktop system for factory
automation, retail point-of-sale, hospitality kiosks, libraries,
museums, schools, labs, and cafes. Anywhere a browser-based desktop is

Secure Desktop 6.71

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:54:42 UT

We've just released a new version of Secure Desktop, as follows:
- Fixed a problem related to the Window Wizard and very long window
titles. There was a limit of 145 characters, which has now been
extended to 256.
- Extended the number of Window Wizard configurations from 10 to 100.
- Fixed a small problem when typing into the command-line area of the

Secure Desktop 6.70

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:01:02 UT

We've just released a new version of Secure Desktop, as follows:
- Added Office 2003 to the existing Office 2000 and Office XP registry
restrictions.
- Added a checkbox to Options | Alarm to close Internet Explorer if not
on home page after x minutes of inactivity. We recommend the "re-start
if closed" checkbox be checked, when starting Internet Explorer.

Secure Desktop 6.65

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:18:56 UT

We've just released a new version of Secure Desktop, as follows:
- Added a new toolbar icon to safely unplug a USB/Firewire device.
- Fixed a problem with the background color in Supervisor mode, when
switching tabs.
- Fixed the detection of Terminal Services in Windows 2003 Server.
Previously, Terminal Services was always detected, even if it had not

ColdKey 3.01

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:17:28 UT

We have just released a new version of ColdKey, as follows:
- Added Ctrl-. to the list of keystrokes, in the Windows tab. This
keystroke is used by some multimedia programs to exit.
- Fixed a Range Check Error problem that happened when ColdKey launched
for the first time, introduced in 3.00.

New ColdKey 3.00!

dfa...@visualautomation.com (Duane Fahey) — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:36:24 UT

We just finished ColdKey 3.00! Based on customer request, we added the
ability to have different configuration per user. Previously, you
could only enable/disable ColdKey per user. Here are the details:
- Added Left Mouse Button in the Mouse tab
- Added Multi-User configuration support, by doing the following: