Getting or setting FMP Preferences

[Gary Hoffman]

Can I get or set the preferences settings in FMP10/11? I'd like to disable the Automatically check for updates every 7 days setting because my users don't have admin access on their machines so can't install updates anyway. If I can't set this via script, can I modify a preferences setting file?

Sorry if this is too off-topic here. I can't see a better forum than where people control what the users' menus are.

Thanks,

Gary

[Ted S]

I believe the only way you can accomplish this is during the original install of Filemaker on each machine and only if you are doing an assisted install using a volume license.

http://www.filemaker.com/support/kb/

See answer ID 7099.

[aholtzapfel]

In most cases, there is a registry entry for these settings. I have created VBS scripts to set usernames and update the defualt printer that filemaker uses. (using regedit you can see what entries are generated for filemaker under the Hkey_currentuser folder, these setting are ver specific so if you run a system that uses multiple client versions the script must be taylored to each)