SentryLaunch

See also: Options dialog -> Security tab

Because you never know when you may have to leave your workstation, Sentry makes it easy to instantly start protecting your system.

SentryLaunch sits as an icon in your system tray while Sentry isn't active, and launches Sentry after you hit a global hotkey or click on the lock icon. It can also launch Sentry after your computer is idle for a certain amount of time. The program itself requires very little memory and only takes 50 KB of disk space.

Enabling SentryLaunch

By default, SentryLaunch is enabled after Sentry is installed. To disable or configure SentryLaunch, open the options window and click on the Security section.

Checking this panel enables SentryLaunch to run at Windows StartUp.

You can choose what method you want to use to start Sentry with: Single click, Double click, or through a menu.

This field provides a place for you to use your own icon for SL. If the field is blank or contains an invalid name, SL's default icon is used.

Starting Sentry with SentryLaunch

SentryLaunch will place a small lock icon in the Windows System Tray (located in the lower right corner of your screen)

when it is running. Depending on the option you chose in the Security section of the options window, you can instantly start Sentry in 3 ways:

Single Click: Simply move your mouse over the padlock icon, and click.

Double Click: Move your mouse over the icon, and click twice rapidly.

Explicitly through menu: Hover your mouse over the icon, and click the right mouse button. A popup menu should appear (see right). Click "Launch Sentry" with your left mouse button once it is highlighted.

SentryLaunch Loads Sentry after you are idle (No Keyboard input/Mouse movement)

SentryLaunch can also start Sentry after a certain period of idle time by acting as the default windows ScreenSaver. If you want Sentry to start after your computer is idle for a certain amount of time, just set SentryLaunch as the default Windows ScreenSaver. You can do this in one of three ways:

Start Button -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Display -> ScreenSaver tab
Right-click SentryLaunch's tray icon, then click "Configure Screensaver".

Display properties - ScreenSaver

By default, Sentry configures SentryLaunch as the default screensaver, and this dialog is shown while installing Sentry.

Note that Sentry will not prompt you to enter an away message if SentryLaunch auto-starts Sentry. Instead, the default away message will be used.