Milestone Screen Recorder 1.5 - Manual (Page 5)

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Screen Recorder 1.5 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 5 How XProtect Screen Recorder works
How XProtect Screen Recorder works
Once installed, XProtect Screen Recorder is automatically controlled from the startup menu of the computer
where it is installed and runs in the context of the user logged into this computer. This means that XProtect
Screen Recorder will automatically
—and invisibly—start up every time the user logs in to the computer and close
down every time the user closes down.
If on-line user-switching is done via Window's Fast User Switching feature, the XProtect Screen Recorder will
continue to record in the context of the new user, however any other type of user-switching/-logging in or out will
result in discontinuation of the feature. For more details see: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-
us/windows7/Switch-users-without-logging-off http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Switch-users-
without-logging-off.
This is possible because it is a service running in the background, capturing the computer’s screen at a set frame
rate. It is also this service which provides the interface that your XProtect surveillance system can connect to and
retrieve images from
—much like on any normal camera.