Installing Rainmeter in Corporate Environment
Posted: March 23rd, 2016, 4:52 pm
Hi,
We're packaging RM for deployment in a corporate environment to display a countdown clock on the desktop for a go-live event.
Specifically, after install is complete, we copy in a custom RAINMETER.INI into the %APPDATA%\RAINMETER folder. This RAINMETER.INI points to the countdown clock skins folder on a read-only network share. This is so that every users gets a consistent experience and also if we need to make a quick change to the skin, it appears immediately to all users (once they logout and log back in again).
Installation works fine if a workstation has only one user but not if it is a shared workstation. In that case only the user who installed Rainmeter sees the countdown meter. Other users who login afterwards won't get it.
Any recommendations? According to the install page, the /STARTUP switch will launch RM automatically when Windows starts but this is only for the user who initially installs RM.
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/installing-rainmeter/
Thanks,
Roland
We're packaging RM for deployment in a corporate environment to display a countdown clock on the desktop for a go-live event.
Specifically, after install is complete, we copy in a custom RAINMETER.INI into the %APPDATA%\RAINMETER folder. This RAINMETER.INI points to the countdown clock skins folder on a read-only network share. This is so that every users gets a consistent experience and also if we need to make a quick change to the skin, it appears immediately to all users (once they logout and log back in again).
Installation works fine if a workstation has only one user but not if it is a shared workstation. In that case only the user who installed Rainmeter sees the countdown meter. Other users who login afterwards won't get it.
Any recommendations? According to the install page, the /STARTUP switch will launch RM automatically when Windows starts but this is only for the user who initially installs RM.
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/installing-rainmeter/
Thanks,
Roland