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Can the license information be made invisible on the startup screen?

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A client (a school with a network license) has asked if it is possible to NOT show the license information on the startup screen.

Any ideas how to do it?

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@steven.hamoen,

That info block is part of the start page. There is not a way to remove it.

The licensing info shown when licensed by a network license seat never contains the license codes, so nothing proprietary is ever public - only what you see in the screenshot:

  • License Type: Educational
  • Installed Licenses: Network

If they don't want even that minimal license info to show, they will need to disable the start page altogether.

You can disable the start page from File > Global Preferences > Environment tab. Uncheck the option for "Show start page when FlexSim opens".


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Ok thanks. Is there a way to have this when you install this on multiple machines? Is there a config file of somekind or for instance by copying the prefs.t file?

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Hi @steven.hamoen,

The prefs.t file is where this setting gets saved. However, prefs.t is saved on a per-user basis. I can't think of a good way to apply this setting to every user. Maybe @phil.bobo has some idea.

The bad way I can think of is to install the first client PC and configure FlexSim properly for all the settings you want. Then close FlexSim to save the prefs.t. Then save off the prefs.t and archive it away as the organization's default prefs.t file. Then the domain admin could create a Windows user logon script that checks to see if the user already has a prefs.t. If so, leave it alone. If not, copy this default prefs.t into the proper location.

FlexSim should probably have some way of loading system-wide prefs that could then be overridden by a user's local prefs in case of conflict. I'll send this to the dev list for future consideration.

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