Option to prevent Drive from launching on startup by user
We are preparing to deploy Box Drive to our users using the Windows .msi. However we've found that after installation, the Box Drive window opens automatically for every user, every time they log into the computer. For users on a shared system who are not using Box, this means dismissing the window every login.
We'd like an option for Box Drive installation to not have the client launch automatically for all users. Or post-installation, allow the user to tell Box Drive not to open automatically for them. If the Box Drive client needs to run at login for every user, could it at least start with an icon in the system tray and not a visible window?
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Anonymous
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Instead of being set per user, as it should be, the option to launch Box Drive at logon is set per computer (applies to everyone who logs on to the system), via a "Box" entry in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run that launches "C:\Program Files\Box\Box\Box.exe".
This leaves our VMware Horizon VDI environment stuck between two sets of user objections:
(a) Many users have complained that they have no intention of using Box, and hate having to dismiss the Box Drive logon prompt each time they connect to one of our VMware Horizon instant clone desktop pools that has it installed. I personally find it very annoying that I get the Box logon window every time I make a Remote Desktop Connection to my dedicated VM as my admin account (a separate user account from my standard "low privilege" account that's allowed to log on to Box).
(b) But when I dealt with the issue by removing the Box entry from the system Run key in the Horizon pool, other users complained that they wanted Box Drive to be working automatically at logon, did not want to have to launch it from the Start menu.
Please change the "launch Box Drive at logon" method to apply per user, not per computer. Use HKEY_CURRENT_USER's Run key instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE's.
Users would get the "Login to Box Drive" popup the first time they logged on to a VDI pool with Box installed (or a physical system), with a choice to either log on or "don’t bother me again", and that change would get written to their user profile (which we preserve between Horizon pool sessions).
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Anonymous
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This is most annoying and will actually determine whether I use or delete the app.