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EchoLink User's Guide
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Profiles
Changes made to any of EchoLink's settings are stored to the computer's hard disk,
and are restored each time the program is started.
For convenience, EchoLink also allows any number of different combinations of
settings to be stored separately, and given a descriptive name. This is useful if you
want to be able to switch back and forth between two (or more) commonly used
settings, such as the callsigns of a husband and wife sharing the same computer.
To use this feature, choose Profiles from the File menu. A list of the currently
defined profiles is shown; by default, only the profile called MAIN is defined. (The
MAIN profile cannot be deleted or re-named).
To create a new profile, choose New, and enter a name for the profile. Choose
whether you want the new profile to initially contain all of the current settings, or
begin with default settings. (If you choose default settings, the Setup Wizard will
appear the first time the profile is invoked.) EchoLink will create a shortcut in the
Programs section of your Windows Start menu for the new profile, and optionally
also create a shortcut on your Windows desktop. You can use either of these
shortcuts to start up EchoLink directly with any of the profiles you have defined.
To switch from one profile to another, double-click the name of the profile in the list
of available profiles. You also have the option of whether to be prompted to choose
a profile each time EchoLink starts, or to start up in a specific profile automatically.
(By default, EchoLink always starts with the MAIN profile). If you are running in
Sysop mode, you can also use the DTMF command ProfileSelect to switch to another
profile remotely.
If a profile other than MAIN has been selected, the name of the profile will appear in
the program's title bar. Any changes made to program settings are automatically
stored in the selected profile; no other profiles are affected. If there is a setting you
want to apply to all profiles, you will have to switch to each profile separately and
make the same change to each profile.
Profiles, and all other EchoLink settings, are stored in the Current User section of the
Windows Registry. If you are using the Windows User Profiles feature, in which each
user of the PC logs in to Windows on startup, remember that changes made to
EchoLink settings by one user will not apply to others.
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