Running ID for only administrator account

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Steve Magruder

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Nov 28, 2020, 9:08:55 AM11/28/20
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I couldn't find this in the FAQ.

On my main Windows 10 laptop I have the usual administrator and a secondary user account used by my housemate. This laptop is the director for another client laptop. I would like ID not to run on the main laptop's secondary user account, because that user has no need to use the client laptop and is also annoyed by the cursor going somewhere else offscreen while they do their work.

So, is there any possible way I can keep ID disabled (preferably automatically) while the secondary user is signed in, or have ID somehow not installed for use by the secondary user? I know it can be disabled manually, but the secondary user isn't tech-oriented and would probably often forget to do that.

Thanks for any ideas!

Steve Magruder

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Jan 5, 2023, 8:29:52 AM1/5/23
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To follow-up on this, I eventually saw that if I set up a hotkey to disable the Screen Edge Transition and "allow synthesized input", I could write an AutoHotkey script (set up as a desktop icon) for the secondary user of the laptop to run if they ever got annoyed by the transitions. However, I haven't as yet figured out how to run this script automatically - when run by Task Scheduler (after login + delay), it fails for some reason (i.e., I don't know where the malfunction occurs).

At any rate, I'd like to formally request that there be added some kind of per-user differentiation in the Input Director settings, at least to set whether which user has their screen-edge transitions enabled or disabled. This would obviate the need to have to automate this outside the application.

Thanks for your consideration.

Hunter Griffin

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Feb 10, 2023, 4:45:13 PM2/10/23
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Couldn't you add a Deny permission to to the EXE or folder that the program is in?
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