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i second that, yes the Hotscreen Demo pops up in top left screen

i have just locked mine with random keystrokes and set unlock to never so it should be permanently on my machine now. i know i can use task manager to kill the process and then i could delete the save file to remove the lock. i am just playing with how to stop me doing that

what is coming in v0.8?

that is a great point, i will try and find someone via anydesk elsewhere

looked through my screen options and it had 
0 Nvidia - GPU
1 AMD - iGPU
2 Nvidia - GPU

so it was listing 0 and 2 as same device. i have chosen 2 now and it may have fixed it. Thanks for the pointer

i think what would be awesome is allowing someone else to log into my machine and set the filters and put password on it. That would be real consequences!

i only have the one screen. it starts up as planned but the filters just do not work at all. i have to close and reopen for the filters to work.

you could create a new shortcut for the gallery app (lets call it paint) that would open both apps. I am not sure how you could then close both apps at same time though.
I am not really a coder, just someone who likes to play with powershell on my own pc :)

have told hotscreen to open up (0.7) on startup. It clearly does but the blocking doesn't work until I close it and reopen it, is this a known bug?

it probably would be, i have been using it more for online stuff rather than local stuff, or stuff that i delete after downloading anyway.

this is the way i have done it for Windows 11 machine. I have set hotscreen to launch at startup and the script here runs 5 minutes after logon (this makes sure that the hotscreen app will have launched by the time it starts monitoring for it) . It will check whether the process (hotscreen.exe) rather than process id is running. If it is running then nothing happens for 30 seconds.

If it finds out that the process isnt running it removes my account from administrators group and forces an immediate logoff (that way i lose admin rights immediately) but it does add in another task for 6 hours later to re-add my account back to administrators.
I do have another admin account I could use if this failed, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ANOTHER WAY TO ACCESS WHILE TESTING!

I am not going to publish the full script here because it has the ability to remove users from admin etc, happy to give pointers but i don't want the full script to be used for nefarious reasons by others.

# HotScreen Monitor - Runs at startup, checks every 30 seconds

$startTime = Get-Date

while ($true) {

    $elapsedTime = (Get-Date) - $startTime

    # Only check after 5 minutes

    if ($elapsedTime.TotalMinutes -ge 5) {

        $process = Get-Process -Name "hotscreen" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

        if ($process) {

            Write-Output "hotscreen.exe IS running - no action taken"

        } else {

            Write-Output "hotscreen.exe is NOT running - proceeding with admin removal"

THIS IS WHERE YOU WOULD ADD IN YOUR COMMANDS FOR WHAT TO DO IF HOTSCREEN ISN'T RUNNING

     }

}       

}

what are you using the recording method for? i have a 4090 and oled 4k monitor and no issue on running it (though I don't run the recording). I can test with recording if you let me know what you want testing

i have started playing around with windows services/scheduled tasks. if it finds i closed the app then it removes my account from admin for 6 hours and automatically logs me off so that i lose admin rights immediately. it then autostarts so i can't close it.

it will also copy the save file to an encrypted (by dpapi) folder that only system has access to so even if i delete the save file to restart and lose the lock time it will restore the file and reset the lock to 16 hours.

Could we have multiple folder paths please. I would like to have an anon share for people to post things to and a share that is for my vids