What makes JMP ask me to Personalize it?

Question

I routinely run a number of JSL scripts as scheduled jobs and lately I'm having an issue that they hang up (get terminated by the Windows scheduler for taking too long).

I also see my JMP putting up a window asking me to personalize it - maybe I don't need DOE or other platforms I rarely use?

I'm not clear whether this is causing my problem - JMP gets opened in the background, produces this window and waits fruitlessly for human input? - or whether getting this window is a symptom - maybe memory gets low and prompts this? Or whether it's completely unrelated.   I don't get this window on my laptop, just recently on the desktop machine I use to run scheduled jobs.  And I can run the scripts OK just manually on that machine...

hardner · Answer

Just an update on this for what it's worth....

It happened again.  I went on to the machine I reserve for doing automated scheduled jobs through windows scheduler and there were 2 JMP sessions visible both with the Personalization window up.  Presumably a couple of my jobs had exposed themselves and were waiting for this Personalization input.

Based on Guillaume's input I checked my preferences - Show Personalization still said 0.

Moreover, I rebooted the machine and manually opened JMP and the Personalization window came up again.  I checked my preferences and Show Personalization was still 0..  I closed and reopened JMP and that did not reappear.  Jobs could run fine and have been doing so once again for several days without this happening.

None of my scripts try to modify preferences and since I rarely use this machine for live analysis I haven't done much with the preferences but I'm updating a few to my favorite ways so I can look into whether that machine is somehow getting preferences reset.  On my laptop I have never experienced my JMP preferences getting reset by our IT.

So, still mystified.

laural_ · Answer

One thing my company's IT department did was to restrict admin privileges for executable programs.  So when you run JMP and want to save the preferences file in the default location AND if JMP.exe doesn't have admin privileges, then you will repeatedly get this error every time preferences are changed.

hardner · Answer

interesting!  I had looked in the preferences window and found nothing about this personalization window but with show preferences() I do see that mine is set to 0 - at the moment.  I'll have to wait and see if the window starts appearing again and then see if this has changed.  Thanks!