If you are supporting users of information technology and are concerned about possible inadvertent corruption of WTC's settings, or just want to thin the menus down once the setup is working, you can preclude access to the whole configuration by write protecting the settings file.

You can set the read-only attribute of "wtc.wtc" in a Windows Explorer listing of the WTC installation folder, or with any other program that allows you to change file attributes. If WTC finds that the settings file is read-only at startup, the automatic setup dialogue, change/review and reset options on the communications settings menu are not displayed, and the directory dialling/setup menu is not available at all.

The directory dialling/setup menu does not appear on the menu bar. This prevents inadvertent access to the e-mail signature file and other settings, as well as the modem. The communications settings menu is still there because the local and remote echo settings may be required interactively, and changing them does not have a permanent effect. The Interactive Offline Communications Mode option, however, is also r=removed by settings file write protection.

Obviously, if you prevent access to the configuration from within WTC, the only way to change the settings from then on is by direct access through Windows Explorer, or equivalent. All WTC support files are plain text and can be managed by an editor or a custom front end.

When you change the read-only attribute of the settings file, you need to restart WTC before the change is taken into account (the internal settings options disappear or reappear).

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Hiding WTC Setup Options