LeapFrog Pollux Platform: LFConnect

Summary
This page contains information about the LFConnect software that comes with your device.

Disable Auto Start
Monitor.exe is the program always running on your computer, that triggers LFConnect, when a device is plugged in, you can disable it, to prevent LFConnect from starting.

Temporarily
This technique will turn off Auto Start until the next boot, or the next time LFConnect has been started.

Look in Task Manager for the Monitor.exe process, and simply kill that process.

Permanent
This solution will prevent Monitor.exe from being started at boot time. It requires making a registry edit, it would be wise to back up the registry, before making any edit.

Delete this registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Monitor

which has the value "C:\Program Files\LeapFrog\LeapFrog Connect\Monitor.exe" This will prevent Monitor.exe from starting up when your computer starts.

Extract lfp Archives from Plugin
Download http://download.leapfrog.com/leapfrogconnect/PC/didj/DidjPlugin.exe

Install cabextract $ sudo apt-get install cabextract $ cabextract -d test DidjPlugin.exe will put all the extracted files in the test directory.

Extract lfp/lf2 archives