Specifications

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Specifying a larger than usual allocation size greatly reduces the tendency of
disk fragmentation, at the cost of a small amount of wasted disk space. Given
the fact that most WATCHOUT media files tend to be rather large, this should
not have any practical disadvantages.
Once the formatting is complete, the new partition will appear as the D: disk
drive. Create a WATCHOUT folder on this disk, and install WATCHOUT to this
disk using the Installer, as described on page 15. When given the opportunity
to specify where to install WATCHOUT, chose the newly created WATCHOUT
folder on the D: drive.
WINDOWS 7 UAC SETTINGS The User Access Control (UAC) feature of Windows 7 may interfere with
certain functions in WATCHOUT, particularly when running on unattended
display computers. UAC, per definition, assumes that there is a user.
WATCHOUT display software is often run in an unattended way, with no user
standing by to click buttons or type passwords. Furthermore, you generally
shouldn’t run WATCHOUT on networks that have direct Internet access, or any
other kind of unrelated (and possibly harmful) traffic. Under those specific
circumstances, you’re better off without UAC, since it tends to cause more
problems than it solves.
Things that UAC will interfere with, if enabled:
• Downloading of shows. WATCHOUT display software traditionally stores
its shows in the Shows folder, located in the same folder as the application.
This is a not permitted under UAC, and Windows will therefore relocate the
folder to another location. While this works OK as far as WATCHOUT is
concerned, it may interfere with other methods of accessing the Shows
folder, or just be confusing when you go looking for it.