Ventrilo - Global Setup

Check for new version

This option enables the program to check for a newer version each time the program is started. If the program determines that a newer version if available it will popup a message and give you the option to be taken to a download page on the web site where you can see what has been changed and download the latest version.

Please note that this is not an automatic updater. Instead, it just checks to see if a new version is available.

For administrators who use the program in a corporate environment and do not want their users to download and install new versions, much less knowing that any exist, can apply one of two registry keys to prevent this from happening. You only need to apply one of them.

The first key is global to the entire system and will take precedence over the user based key:

Key = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Ventrilo

The second key is unique to each users system login:

Key = HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ventrilo

The Values name, type and meaning is the same for both keys and is as follows:

ValueName = DisableVersionCheck
ValueType = DWORD

Setting the value to 1 will gray out the "Check for new version" option in the client and will disable the update check completely no matter what the current state of the checkbox is.