Deactivate advised I/O items

When you start up the Windows operating system, the services that are configured to automatically start will start in the "background" with no visible user interface appearing on the desktop. The services in this situation are running in the system context. When an operator logs on the system, any services that are running in the system context that have an associated user interface automatically appear on the desktop. In this situation, the services are now running in the desktop context.

If you configure the WindowViewer service to automatically start, the service runs in the system context when the operating system starts. Then, when a user logs on, the WindowViewer service continues to run but in the desktop context, and the WindowViewer user interface automatically appears.

If you have InTouch Access Names defined with the Advise only active items option turned on, and have I/O tags that are active only in certain InTouch application windows (the tags are not used anywhere else in the application), it is possible to "deactivate" those tags. For example, if WindowViewer is running as a service, and you close an application window using a script, the window automatically is unloaded from memory, thus terminating the link to those tags.