$aad Start Menu Lock

With this directive, the Administrator can assign Applications and Sets to the Start Menu of the User that are initial not visible. The User (or when the Administrator is behind the keyboard of the User...) has to enter a Password, and then those Applications and Sets become visible.

The Administrator sets the Password for Locked Menus using AADS Maintenance and Control:

It is also possible for the Administrator to use his/her own PC, and "unlock" the Start Menu of the Users and make those extra Apps and Sets visible using AADS Maintenance and Control:

The Administrator selects "Unlock Start Menu", followed by a "Refresh" of the Start Menu of the selected Users.

How to use the directive $aad Start Menu Lock

• The directive $aad Start Menu Lock should be used in Sets , or
• The directive $aad Start Menu Lock should be used in the Start Menu itself .

Use $aad Start Menu Lock in Sets

• A Set is created named "User Desktop Maintenance".
• The directive $aad Start Menu Lock is added to the Set "User Desktop Maintenance".
• The Set "User Desktop Maintenance" is assigned to the User "luser001".
  • The Set could also have been assigned to a Group...
• Note: for demonstrating purposes, the Set "User Desktop Maintenance" contains 2 Sub-Sets.

When the User "luser001" does a Login, the Desktop is as follows:

• The  Start Menu as shown to the User does not show the "Locked Set(s)".

Right-Click Mouse / Long Press on the Start Menu Icon

• Right-Click mouse on the Start Menu Icon, and a Password dialog appears.
  • A "long, 3 second click" with the Left-mouse-button, similar to a "long press" on touch-devices, will also show the Password dialog.
• Enter the Password for $aad Start Menu Lock, and after a few seconds, the Start Menu of the User will show the "Locked Set(s)":

The Administrator can also AADS Maintenance & Control for Locking / Unlocking the Start Menu of this User:

• Select 1 or more Users
• Select or De-Select the checkbox "Unlock Start Menu"
• Refresh

After clicking on the Refresh button, the Start Menu of the selected Users will show either the Locked Sets or not, depending on Select or De-Select the checkbox "Unlock Start Menu".

Use $aad Start Menu Lock in Start Menu (variant 1)

In this example the User gets 2 visible Applications:

The directive "$aad Start Menu Lock" is placed in the main part of the Start Menu for the User.

Possible there are also "$aad Start Menu Lock" in the Sets "User Desktop Maintenance", "Control Panel" or "Accessories", but that has become irrelevant, because now that the directive "$aad Start Menu Lock" is placed in the main part of the Start Menu for the User, the whole Start Menu of the User is invisible.

The 2 visible Apps

For demonstration purposes the User gets 2 visible Applications.
These Applications must have "Auto Start"  because the User does not have a visible Start Menu, so the User has also not the ability to start Applications.

When the User does a logon, the desktop looks as follows:

• Both Firefox and Notepad are started because of the "Auto Start" .

The User is able to close Notepad. However, if the User closes Firefox, after a few seconds it will be started again because of the "Auto-Restart" .

When the User presses the Win-key, the result is not showing the Start Menu of the User, but showing the Password-dialog for "unlocking the Start Menu":

After entering the Password correctly, the Start Menu becomes visible:

How to do a Logoff when the Start Menu is not Visible

Because of Firefox, which will run forever in this example , the Session of this User will never stop, will never logoff.
A logoff of this User / Session needs to be done by the Administrator.

Option 1

Make the Start Menu visible, by entering the Password as shown here above, and make sure that there is a "Session" menu-item in the Start Menu, such that the User can do a Logoff.

Option 2

The Administrator does logoff this User / Session, using AADS Maintenance & Control:

Use $aad Start Menu Lock in Start Menu (variant 2)

Again, in the example the User gets 2 visible applications:

The directive "$aad Start Menu Lock" is placed in the main part of the Start Menu for the User.

Possible there are also "$aad Start Menu Lock" in the Sets "User Desktop Maintenance", "Control Panel" or "Accessories", but that has become irrelevant, because now that the directive "$aad Start Menu Lock" is placed in the main part of the Start Menu for the User, the whole Start Menu of the User is invisible.

The 2 visible Apps

For demonstration purposes the User gets 2 visible Applications.
These Applications must have "Auto Start"  because the User does not have a visible Start Menu, so the User has also not the ability to start Applications.

The difference with the previous example is that now none of the Applications have the option for "Auto-Restart" .

When the User does a logon, the desktop looks as follows:

• The desktop will show both Applications.
• Both Applications can be terminated by the User
  • ... none of them will be Auto-Restarted ...
• When all Applications have been terminated by the User, the Session will Logoff.