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I would say most are now using ParentMail or the messaging system within their MIS.

Correct :-)

We have to wait until first start day also. Would love to know answer to this also.

While the JCQ regulations suggest devices should NOT be connected to the internet/network, I find that they set these refs without asking IT Pros who work in schools about this. We have ours on the domain and we map their H drive to a network share. The internet is disabled by means of the user account logged in is blocked via the proxy and we use AppLocker to only allow specific Apps to run also, so all internet browsers are blocked. I think it’s a common sense approach that you need to apply, think of this scenario, if you had you device offline, and your hard drive fails, you won’t be able to recover any work. The only way to negate this is to have local backups and then save to the working EWP file to a network share, this way in the event of a complete computer failure, you can recover on a different PC.

Very true! If there are any issues then please get them in to me here or via the EWP website and I’ll get them fixed the next day. :-)

Yes I know, I had forgotten to pay the renewal for the domain name, oops! It’s normally in my calendar but slipped my mind and doesn’t offer auto renew. Lesson learned!

New UPDATE RELEASED!! · ADDED: CD Player now has a track scrubbing/seek bar so you can move to a specific point within the audio track. · FIXED: If “MuteSystemAudio” as set to 1, when exiting, EWP would crash when there are no audio devices present or disabled within scenarios over Remote Desktop. This has also allowed me to merge the ‘MuteAudio’ and ‘UnMuteAudio’ functions into one combined function. · FIXED: If “MuteSystemAudio” as set to 1, when trying to mute the system audio on some occasions, EWP would crash why trying to get the current audio device. The correct error handling has been introduced and an exit sub has been introduced at the first hint of no detectable audio devices. · UPGRADED: EWP’s document component, TextControl, has been upgraded to x19 Service Pack 3 (contains numerous fixes). · UPGRADED: EWP is compiled and written with Visual Studio, which has been upgraded to version 16.10.4 · UPGRADED: EWP’s spell check facility, Keyoti RapidSpell, has been upgraded to version 6.2.0 (new dictionary words added). · UPGRADED: EWP’s audio library, Un4seen BASS, has been upgraded to version 2.4.16.3 (various fixes/improvements). Portable Download https://bit.ly/ExamWritePad MSI Installer Download https://bit.ly/ExamWritePad-MSI For security reasons, I have now included below the ZIP/MSI file hashes, so you can check for any forms of tampering, thus giving you peace of mind. Portable SHA-1: 8ED70A58A5C0725B66956CA2152D38E93B213E9F MD5: 25FA8EC8D4A049B068F72FA0EE59B4D4 MSI Installer SHA-1: DF96D007BB57C17584CAB8A810E00BC548F27AED MD5: 4BB4455A7C0971E5397E25B78EDFD93D

Hope everyone is enjoying a little more freedom and the summer holidays, the next version of EWP v4.8 will be released around the week of the 16th august. Nothing major as far as to report on other than update to the components used in EWP. Stability fixes are what developers call them :-) Will post nearer the time when the release is ready. Enjoy the remaining summer!

Your most welcome, hopefully you will enjoy EWP for years to come :-)

Ok I see, how is the usb mapped on the computer? Just a standard drive letter? Just seems odd that’s all if it is a drive letter. Especially when you can save to USB but seemingly not open…

Hi Tom, The EWP File you have sent to me opens up fine with double click on open existing through EWP. So at this point Iim not sure what is stopping you?? See video Below as evidence that your file works as expected. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KbCTniyfpWcnAJfBarpNaU6nE80eJbAT/view?usp=sharing

Hi Tom, Welcome to to EWP and thanks for raising your issue. Can I ask that you send to me the EXAMTEXT file by email to [email protected] and I will check the contents of it at my end. I'm really stumpted as to why it fails to open up correctly on another PC. Can you do the following for me please as a test: 1) Save the file to a USB stick as normal. 2) Close EWP, open notepad and open the EWP file in notepad to see if the part of the XML has the text you see on screen, albeit in RTF formatting. 3) If the file looks OK, take the USB to another PC and open it in notepad again to confirm its is still the same as the original PC. 4) Then open the ExamText file in EWP and does it still look ok? But did you double click on the ExamText file or open EWP first then select open existing button? Look forward to your reply Regards Andy

You are welcome!

Hi, Welcome to EWP, the reason for this is because it look for A4 in the list of paper sizes, the selected printer doesn’t seem to have the required size. If you can send me the log file which will contain the paper sizes and I can take a look. To generate a log file, run EWP and go to print. The the error appears close down EWP and then the HTML log file will be generated in either: C:\Programdata\examwritepad\examwritepad\4.7.1.0 Or the temp folder of the user account logged in. Please send it to [email protected], you may have to copy paste the content rather than attached the HTML file. Thanks Andy

Finally solved the Crash on start-up issue if file permissions are not set to write a specific folders. Here is the full list below: · FIXED: ‘Start-up Fullscreen Mode’ would not apply when double clicking on an ExamText file to open it. Therefore, allowing a candidate to bypass the full screen restrictions. · UPGRADED: TextControl has been upgraded to x19 Service Pack 2 (contains numerous fixes). · UPGRADED: EWP is compiled and written with Visual Studio, which has been upgraded to version 16.9.4 · ADDED: “SaveWithoutPrompt” config option has been added for those that wish to save the file directly without displaying the Save Prompt Dialog box, basically suppressing it. 0 = Shoe Save Dialog box as normal, 1 = Suppress (Do not show). · ADDED: With the above in mind, if you now turn on the config option “SaveAs_NoOverwrite”, every time you click on SaveAs or the document autosaves, it will create a new file with the Date/Time appended to its filename. The same approach used by the autobackup function. FIXED: Issue on start-up if the Windows Temp folder was not writeable for the log file to be generated. The default log file will now be stored on the programdata folder. If that fails it, will not produce a log file. Download from the usual places via examwritepad.com or the link in my signature.

With v4.7.0.0 re-released version, the log file generated will now reside in: “c:\programdata\examwritepad\examwritepad\4.7.0.0”

Perfect, thanks! I’ve done mine but I would always strongly advise to do your own too like you say [emoji846][emoji1303]

Version 4.7.0.0 has now been released on here only below with the log file temp file crash on start-up fix. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17mJMcWxavNOEBynpSr3LjCMyI6r31_Td/view?usp=sharing

Right, ok folks, change of plan, given that it seems a few of you are battening down the hatches in terms of windows temp, I’m going to change the default location of the log file to programdata inside the EWP folder. This folder is never deleted or touched generally and is safe to store it there with all the other EWP stuff. When I officially release version 4.7 in a few weeks, I will highlight a few things extra as pointers to watch out for if needs be.

I had more schools asking for it this way because their profiles get deleted at logoff.

Weird thing is, that if the windows temp is not writable, it is supposed to drop back to programdata, will need to check that bit of code.

Yep, I managed to replicate it too! The reason why it was moved to there was because users with profiles that got deleted at log off would have deleted the log file, giving you nothing to look at in order to fix it. I probably should have said in the documentation make sure users accounts have read/write access to windows temp, lesson learned!!

Does anything get written to c: when in as admin? The only read/wrote permissions needed are in the programdata folder and windows temp.

Ok so I looked through the log file and the only noticeable change is the fact that the EWP needs read/write permissions to the Windows Temp folder for the users

With default config or edited to suit? Any chance you could try with both config with the different users please?