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hmDescription:"Beyond Compare allows system administrators to disable certain functionality of the program by setting policies in a system-wide location.",
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hmHeader:"<h1 class=\"p_Heading1\"><span class=\"f_Heading1\">Admin Policies<\/span><\/h1>\n\r",
hmBody:"<p class=\"p_Normal\">Beyond Compare allows system administrators to disable certain functionality of the program by setting policies in a system-wide location.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Subtitle\"><span class=\"f_Subtitle\">Policies<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Command\"><span class=\"f_Command\">DisableCheckForUpdates<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">When enabled, Beyond Compare will never check for an updated version.  The command will not be included in the <span class=\"f_Command\">Help<\/span> menu, the tweak will not be available in the <span class=\"f_Command\">Options<\/span> dialog, and the <span class=\"f_Command\">New version available...<\/span> notification will not be shown.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Command\"><span class=\"f_Command\">DisableRemoteProfiles<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">When enabled, support for all remote file storage profiles will be disabled.  This includes FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and third-party cloud storage providers (Dropbox, Amazon S3, OneDrive, etc).  The Subversion profile, which is read-only, is not affected by this policy.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Command\"><span class=\"f_Command\">DisableSavedPasswords<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">When enabled, passwords will only be kept in memory.  <span class=\"f_Command\">Save password<\/span> checkboxes will not be shown.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\"><span class=\"f_Subtitle\">To enable a policy on Windows<\/span> <img style=\"margin:0;width:1.0000rem;height:1.0000rem;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/windows.png\"\/><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 1.2500rem; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1.2500rem;margin-left:-1.2500rem\">1.<\/span>Open Windows Registry Editor.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 1.2500rem; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1.2500rem;margin-left:-1.2500rem\">2.<\/span>Create the following key, if it does not exist:<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_IndentedCode\"><span class=\"f_CourierFixed\">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Scooter Software\\Beyond Compare<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_IndentedCode\"><span class=\"f_IndentedCode\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 1.2500rem; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1.2500rem;margin-left:-1.2500rem\">3.<\/span>Create a DWORD value with the same name as the policy (e.g. &quot;DisableCheckForUpdates&quot;).<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 1.2500rem; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1.2500rem;margin-left:-1.2500rem\">4.<\/span>Modify its data to be &quot;1&quot; to enable it.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Use <span class=\"f_CourierFixed\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER<\/span> instead to limit the policy to the current user.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Policies affect all versions of Beyond Compare that support them.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">When installing Beyond Compare, you can pass the policy name to the installer as a switch to enable it by default (e.g. &quot;BCompareSetup.exe \/DisableCheckForUpdates&quot;).<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\"><span class=\"f_Subtitle\">To enable a policy on macOS\/Linux<\/span> <img style=\"margin:0;width:1.0000rem;height:1.0000rem;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/mac.png\"\/> <img style=\"margin:0;width:1.0000rem;height:1.0000rem;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/linux.png\"\/><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 1.2500rem; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1.2500rem;margin-left:-1.2500rem\">1.<\/span>Create the following file, if it does not exist:<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_IndentedCode\"><span class=\"f_CourierFixed\">\/etc\/bcompare.conf<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_IndentedCode\"><span class=\"f_IndentedCode\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 1.2500rem; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1.2500rem;margin-left:-1.2500rem\">2.<\/span>Add a line with the name of the policy (e.g. &quot;DisableCheckForUpdates&quot;) followed by &quot;=&quot;.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 1.2500rem; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1.2500rem;margin-left:-1.2500rem\">3.<\/span>Add &quot;yes&quot; to the end of the line to enable it.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Add &quot;no&quot; instead to leave it disabled.  Any line starting with a &quot;#&quot; is a comment.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">The install includes a sample configuration file:<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_IndentedCode\"><span class=\"f_CourierFixed\">bcompare.conf.sample<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_IndentedCode\"><span class=\"f_IndentedCode\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\"><img style=\"margin:0;width:1.0000rem;height:1.0000rem;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/mac.png\"\/> On macOS, you can find this file by right clicking on <span class=\"f_Command\">Beyond Compare.app<\/span>, selecting <span class=\"f_Command\">Show Package Contents<\/span>, and navigating to <span class=\"f_CourierFixed\">Contents\/Resources\/<\/span>.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\"><img style=\"margin:0;width:1.0000rem;height:1.0000rem;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/linux.png\"\/> On Linux, this file is in the install location, normally:<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_IndentedCode\"><span class=\"f_CourierFixed\">\/usr\/lib\/beyondcompare<\/span><\/p>\n\r"
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