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#47 remove default desktop icon for safe exam browser
Could you please remove the desktop icon for safe exam browser.
It serves no function whatsoever apart from clogging up the desktop and confusing our users. Why would I want to start Safe Browser without any configuration?
We have a desktop shortcut for our configuration file that our students use to start SEB, but they keep mixing it up with the default icon.
To make matters worse, even if I delete it from our PCs, it gets recreated every time a new user starts SEB.
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We will consider it for future versions. But you're wrong with your main argument:
Why would I want to start Safe Browser without any configuration?
Because you can configure SEB with a config file saved with the option "for configuring client" permanently (usually to open an exam portal page), and then you would start the application directly, without opening a locally saved config file.
It serves no function whatsoever apart from clogging up the desktop and confusing our users.
As I mentioned, there are various ways how to use SEB. Just because your users are confused, others might want this solution. Maybe that was when most people were using Windows 7, but then Windows users asked us to provide an desktop shortcut, because their students couldn't find SEB after it was installed. But I also think times changed and desktop shortcuts are probably no longer necessary.
For now, if you're using centrally managed PCs, you can use Orca to remove the desktop shortcut from the MSI embedded into the SEB installer bundle.
my bad, i wasnt aware of the first point
in that case i guess i ll use that next semester to make the client use the pre-configured config file
thx for the quick response
After discussing the issue with Windows system administrators, we decided to remove creating a desktop icon in the installer of the next SEB version (2.1.4). There will still be a link created in the Start Menu (or the Windows >= 8 tiles screen). Let's hope that even less experienced users still find out how to start SEB in case they are not using a configuration file to start it as you mentioned.