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Hi, I think first of all I have to say this because it’s been said to me before and I have had a single instance of it myself. Pupils will try there best to use the system to their advantage by suggestions things aren’t working properly, thus giving them a free ride in the exam. Now, to balance things out, this is not 99.99% of people who do use technology to assist with exams. But you cannot rule it out, is what I’m saying. Now onto further questions to probe this a little deeper: Is this happening on all PCs running EWP? Where are the backups and students saving the work to? Local Disk or Network? Who do the backups look every minute? Do the look as if they are doing the work and suddenly, things disappear? Any patterns? In terms of crashes, can you elaborate? What Are the system specs. Of these PCs? Do you have Debug Application turned on in the config? If so what does the log say? Are there any Windows event logs created for the crashes? I’ve used it on my personal laptop with no issues when writing for over an hour. So hopefully I can help you if you can supply as much information as possible please :-) Also as a footnote, don’t tell the pupils to always save, let EWP do the saving automatically then it’s one less thing for the pupils to do and think about. We always turn on the option to force save after candidate info window. Then they are free to work away with the knowledge that there work is saved for them automatically.

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If it’s not “The Schools” property then you don’t have to test them. The responsibility of testing electrical equipment falls on the person/company who own them. If you do inspect it then you have to document it, extra paperwork on three counts. The device, the transformer pack and the IEC mains lead. But ultimately not your responsibility to test it. The only thing you would be concerned about is the power outlet socket that provides the power, from the schools POV. The HSE document https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg107.pdf doesn’t state specifically student owned equipment, so it’s you GOJFC (Get out of Jail free card) and therefore doesn’t have to be done by the school.

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Welcome to EWP! First of all can I ask as to whether you have deployed/installed the required Microsoft[emoji2400] Visual C++ 2013 Runtime (x64) 12.0.40.664 as stated in the documentation? https://aka.ms/highdpimfc2013x64enu Regards Andy

Oh, and since December autodesk may require the teacher to setup the template with letter head for the pupils to upload as verification. Really crap method as most modern software can just detect the TLD of an education email address like ac.uk or others.

You can install the v12 drivers over the top of 11.4 if you wish to run both older 680 and SM680s. The only issue we have run into is that you cannot export/convert smart notebook files to powerpoints if you have Office 2016 or higher installed from smart notebook 11.4 V17 or higher export ok with office 2016.

Hi All, Just a quick update, been busy thrashing out the bugs, and new version now available. · FIXED: ‘SizeSelection’ combo box would throw an exception on start-up causing some remaining code unable to execute. · FIXED: Debugging information would be posted twice in the log file, in most instances based on some coding issues. · ADDED: More debugging information has been added to the start-up process to better understand where failures may occur, when diagnosing issues. · FIXED: ‘Create_PowerStatus_TimersThreadsHandlers’ has been moved from the ‘New’ Subroutine to the ‘form load’ subroutine to try to mitigate any issues that may arise from its failure to load successfully. · FIXED: Removed older code commented out, no longer required. · FIXED: EWP will now rollback to a default value for any config option that has been set to blank unnecessarily, when it needed a value set. For example, a 0 or 1. Previously EWP would fail to load any remaining config options if it hit such an issue. · FIXED: IF you turn on USBMonitoring, and the USBMonitoring .exe is not located in the same folder as EWP, it will stop EWP appearing and terminate. · FIXED: When turning on the config option “MuteAudio”, The form referred to itself during construction from a default instance, which led to infinite recursion causing the system audio not to be muted. The Mute Audio has been moved To the Form Load event to stop this from happening and mute the system audio as expected. · FIXED: When opening an existing file from the splashscreen, it would fire the document modified Save file dialog first. This has now been suppressed. · FIXED: Documentation Window cursor did not change to a hand on mouse over the close button to keep it consistent with the rest of EWP. · FIXED: When disabling the splashscreen, the application would not close when you exit or click on ‘X’ control box. · FIXED: No previous history would be displayed if the BackupPath was specified as C: for example, therefore a backslash has been appended to make it function correctly. This is an issue with the Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem.GetFiles method. · FIXED: ‘DefaultOpenPath’ was never assign to the Open File Dialog Control as the initial directory to look in for an existing file to open. Update your copy of EWP via the website, built-in updater or via the links in my signature below.

Our.MIS system has an options module, web based, Sims Options online.

Obviously this means that the sound will be enabled but you could mute sound via the Group Policy or via another method than relying on EWP to mute on start-up. Ultimately I would prefer to help you resolve the issue so that the feature works as expected but if you are happy for now with "MuteSystemAudio" set to zero then who am I to complain :-)

Two options: 1) The config is configured and supplied within your deployment intune file. Disadvantage: to change a config option, you would have to rebuild the intune package and redeploy or script the config to be copied to your PCs. 2) Deploy the intune package with no config. Configure the config on a central server UNC location. Then the the shortcut to run EWP on each client PC will contain the /CONFIG parameter to the network config file.

You can also convert the MSI to an intune package following these instructions. http:// https://www.anoopcnair.com/intune-win32-app-deployment/

Can’t see any reason why, if you deploy MSI files then this should be no different.

Hi Tim, The first event log has thrown up the function "MuteAudio()". This will essentially hook onto the system audio and try to mute the system audio. Do you allow pupils access to change the audio levels? I assume so but have to ask to rule this out. Next question would be, does opening up issue occur when running as an admin account? Also does EWP create a debug log? If you turn this on in the config file, "Debug_Application" set it to 1. Then run EWP and when it fails, head over to the windows temp folder and send me a copy of the ExamWritePad log file that was generated. I can then take a closer look and the log also will provide me with what config settings you currently have in place. I don't get the issue here at my school or at home on my development network. No-one else has reported such an issue, so we will need to trace it, bit by bit. Regards Andy

STOP THE PRESS! I have already done this.. The config option is called "PreviousVersionsRecoveryMinutesDisplay", so no need to panic :-) - - - Updated - - - config option is called "PreviousVersionsRecoveryMinutesDisplay"

I will implement a new config option to allow you to set a xx minutes of backups to display in the Previous history restore window. The default will be set to 60 as it stands now but at least you get control over the time frame and to some extent how many backups are visible if you change the autobackup timer from its default of 60 seconds. This will be in the next release by the end of this week, available to download from Sunday :-)

OK, lets start at the beginning with this one, If you turn on the option to "Debug_Application" = 1 in the JSON config, it should create an ExamWritePad log in the c:windows\temp folder. Can you send it over to me please so we can discuss the options and possible scenarios, thanks.

No worries, I like people being able to see what is going on and sometimes can help to explain things if they hit similar issues :-)

That doesn't seem right, I don't have two options on mine. the ConfigEditorGUI version 4.3.0.0? OK, I have tracked it down and its in the JSON config, therefore you would need to manually delete the incorrectly spelt one so you are then left with "Suppress_Save_Messages". Fixed in the default config for the next release.

If you intend to use a JSON config file in a different location the the EWP exe file, then you will run into this issue: The command line parameter of /CONFIG only applies to the shortcut. If you double click on a saved EWP text file, it will run EWP with the default values as it wont honour the /CONFIG because that only applies to the shortcut not the EXE as a whole, which is standard amongst any windows app. Does this shed any light onto your situation?

As far as I can see there isnt a "Supress_Save_Messages" see image attached/below

I have manage to replicate this and I will close this loop hole off in the next build.

1) I will check the restore when nothing is in the list. So are you saying that you start a new instance of EWP and when it has never been used before and you hit restore a blank list will appear? 2) With regards saving, this all depends on the save path and how accessible it is, I have known times where the network drops, then when you try to access the path, there is a little wait before it kicks in. But not to the extent 20-30 seconds. No issues reported on saving. Only other answer could be when you hit save and the auto save starts at the same time but they are separate threads so one shouldn’t lock out the other unless the saved file is being locked out, which is a possibility. The only way you would know for sure is to test with autosave turned off. 3) I would need to know how, your step by step and also would need a copy of your config to try to replicate. 4) no user set limits on backups, EWP will delete anything older than 24 hours. And will only expose the last hours worth of backups within EWP restore. 5) GUI suppress, quite true, one is redundant and I will remove on the next build due out April.

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