HP Device Manager User Manual

CHAPTER 6 Advanced Tasks

 

This chapter describes how to use snapins, images, change registry

 

settings, install XPe software components, and set the agent mode.

 

 

Snapins

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

All of HP’s thin client operating systems utilize real filesystems in

 

Flash disk memory instead of monolithic Flash images. They also

 

use registry-based configuration mechanisms. The combination of

 

real filesystems and registry-based configuration allows HP cus-

 

tomers to add software or update software modules and device con-

 

figuration without having to replace the entire Flash image in the

 

thin client device.

 

Modular software additions and updates need only be as big as they

 

have to be (and in some cases may only be a few kilobytes of

 

information), and registry changes are similarly small. This speeds

 

the update process and helps alleviate bandwidth impact on busy

 

networks and low-bandwidth connections.

 

HP provides snapins to add software to thin clients, such as Adobe

 

Acrobat Reader. Snapins may also be provided by HP Technical

 

Support to help diagnose customer problems. Customers can

 

develop and use their own snapins, since the technology is based on

 

industry-standard protocols.

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