Advanced Features

Enable EXE Identity
Always Ask for Password
Class Name & Title
Allow/Deny/Password Protect
Termination Methods
Password Dialog Box Flags
Schedule Options

Global Options
Special Programs

Enable EXE Identity

Program Information - Advanced - Advanced Options

Default: On

This is a key option for Password Door, it's always recommended to enable this option.

This option helps protect a program even the program was renamed or moved to other place.

Always Ask for Password

Program Information - Advanced - Advanced Options

Default: Off

By default, Password Door asks for password when you launch a password protected program, and if you entered the correct password, it automatically allows the program and will not ask for password again until you closed the program and re-launch it.

If you enable this option, Password Door will always ask for password when a new window is created by the protected program.

Class Name & Title

Program Information - Advanced - Class Name & Title

Default: Off

The window class name and title features are the features in the old version of Password Door, they can still be used in the new version. Class name and title can be used to protect multiple programs. You normally don't need to use these features.

For example: if you set the class name as "IEFrame", all instances of Internet Explorer will be protected. If you set the title as "*WinRAR*", all instances of WinRAR will be protected.

Allow/Deny/Password Protect

Program Information - Advanced - Advanced Options- Protection

Default: Password Protect

Password Door can password protect programs, it also can block programs directly without asking for password. Therefor, a protected program can be set the one of the following states:

Disabled
After you clicked "Disable" for a protected program, the protection is disabled and it will always be allowed.

If the protection for a program is Enabled, then it can be in one of the following states:
Allowed
The program will always be allowed.
Denied
The program will be blocked. When anyone launch it, it won't ask for password, will be closed automatically.
Password Protected (Default)
The program will ask for password. It will be closed if you can not provide the correct password.

Termination Methods

Program Information - Advanced - Advanced Options- Termination

Default: Close window

Password Door is based on windows: it checks the protection when a new window being created, and decide to allow or block the program from launching In old versions, Password Door will simply terminate the whole program if the program is not allowed. Now Password Door lets you to choose what to do:

Close window (Default)
Normally closing the main window of a new launched program will cause the program to be closed, so this is the default method and most programs will be closed with this method. For specific situations, this will close the window but will not close the whole program. For example: Windows Picture Viewer is a component of Windows Explorer, if you protected it (by using the class name and title), then Password Door will only close the Windows Picture Viewer, it won't close the whole Windows Explorer. This is much better than old version of Password Door.
Destroy window
This is an option for old version, don't use it.
Terminate whole program
The old versions of Password Door always use this method. It forces the whole program to be terminated immediately. This method is still useful for special programs: MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, FlashGet etc., those programs will not quit even you closed their main window.

Password Dialog Box Flags

Program Information - Advanced - Advanced Options- When Show Password Dialog Box

Default: All On

Note by default all these two options will be enabled, and this is necessary for most protected programs. Only if there is problem when enabling these options you can disable one or all of them. Actually in our test, only Internet Explorer sometimes will need you to disable the option "Disable Program Window".

Hide Program Window
When show the password dialog box, Password Door first hide the window of the protected program, so that users can not see the contents in that window before they provided the correct password.
Disable Program Window
When show the password dialog box, Password Door first disable the window of the protected program, so that users can not access the window before they provided the correct password.

Schedule Options

Program Information - Schedule

Default: Always

Password Door supports schedule options, you can set any program to be protected daily, weekly, monthly. For example you can set a program to be protected from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM every day, or set a program to be protected every Sunday.

Schedule options are not recommended if you want to protect programs under the administrator accounts, because administrators can always change the system time to bypass the protection. By default, the protection will be enabled always.

Global Options

Options - Global Options

Default: All Off

The "Global Options" button is the button (icon) in the bottom of the Options page of Password Door main program.

Global options will affect the kernel, the main program and other components.

Keep the password dialog box always on top.
This affects the password dialog box for protected programs. The password dialog box will be always on top of other windows if you enabled this option.
Unload kernel automatically when deactivate.
The kernel will be automatically unloaded when you deactivate the protection. This is, the Password Door kernel (TLPD.EXE) will be closed when you click the Deactivate button if you enabled this option. By default, the kernel will be still in system when you deactivate the software.
Show an icon on system tray bar.
Show an icon on system tray bar so that you can activate/deactivate the protection without the need of launching the main program. You right-click the icon on system tray and choose the menu items to activate/deactivate protection.
Fill in window title when use drag & drop feature.
By default, Password Door will not use the window class name and title feature. If you enable this option, Password Door will automatically fill in the "Window Title" area of the program information when you use the drag and drop feature (which is to drag and drop the target icon to the main window of a program you want to protect).
Activate/Deactivate buttons can always be clicked.
Password Door automatically check its status. If it is currently already active, then you can not click the Activate button; on other hand, if it currently is inactive, you can not click the Deactivate button. If you enable this option, then the Activate/Deactivate button always can be clicked. Password Door will still check its status, but it will not disable one of the Activate/Deactivate buttons.

Special Programs

Password Door automatically checks for special programs to select the best settings for those programs. A special program is a program that will cause problems when you protect it with the default settings. Password Door has a file PDSpec.ini in its program folder, the file contains the information about possible special programs we have found in our test.

For example: Internet Explorer sometimes will encounter problem if Password Door disables its main window when pop up the password dialog box. So if you protect the Internet Explorer, Password Door will automatically clear the option "Disable program window".

For example: MSN Messenger will not be closed if Password Door close its main window, instead, it hides itself to the system tray bar. So Password Door will change the termination method from "Close window" to "Terminate whole program" automatically when you protect the MSN Messenger.