Answering machine breaks if a second IVM launched

[Seth]

In General Settings I check "Run IVM automatically..." and select "Run as Service (before login). Show this user only." This is good since it will only start the service when the first user of the computer logs in (whoever that might be). It won't launch any other instances when other people log in, which breaks the answering machine.

 

For example, if you set "Run as Service (before login). Show all users," a second instance starts running automatically when a second user logs into the computer (using fast user switching on Windows XP). This then breaks the answering machine. (Try calling the number and listen for an outgoing message!) This user instance needs to be exited (and monitoring of calls for this instance stopped) before IVM works properly again. Even with the setting "Run as Service (before login). Show this user only," if the second user manually launches IVM to get access to settings, voicemail, etc., it breaks the answering machine. That user has to remember exit his/her instance and stop call monitoring when finished.

 

It would be great if the IVM program could be separated in a smaller core program (run as a service) and a system tray GUI program that each user could launch. For example, see the last two paragraphs of

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....ve_services.asp

 

That way each user logged into the machine could have access to IVM with only one instance of the program running (under SYSTEM).

 

Seth