How to Use HT Work Focus – A Quick Start Guide
Learn how to track time and benefit your productivity in just a few minutes
- Download HT Work Focus and install it on your employees’ computer(s), laptop(s), or terminal server with Windows OS.
- For remote management on the same network, download HT Remote Manager and install it on your admin computer.
The program does not block any activity by default. Therefore, you need to configure the Rules according to your preferences.
HT Work Focus begins tracking time and activities automatically upon installation. It starts every time the computer is turned on; working silently in the background, recording activities, and blocking unwanted.
Get live visual time reports of time worked and wasted. Use time logs to stay organized and in control. Learn how much of a day your employees spend working at your computer.
Identify and eliminate inefficient habits. See how much time you or your employees spent on each website and application. Learn where your team can waste time using the reports and limit or block these activities with the Rules.
See Screenshots for a more detailed view. Every 5, 10, or 15 minutes, HT Work Focus captures your team members’ computer screens. That way, you can see how the time is spent and what everyone is working on.
Get regular automatic email reports with time logs and computer activities.
- Open Settings → Email Reporting.
- Select Send email reports every and specify periodicity.
- Add your email address.
Boost productivity by blocking time-wasting websites such as news, social media, video, etc. Do not forget to block inappropriate content — adult websites and other sites with 10 categories. Block thousands of sites with a single checkbox or keyword.
- Go to Rules → Website Blocking.
- Select the predefined categories to block them.
- Add your websites and keywords to the Blacklist.
Limit time on non-work-related websites or schedule lunch breaks. For example, you can limit time on YouTube to 30 minutes per day or allow it only during breaks.
- Click Rules → Website Limits.
- Add websites you want to set time limits for.
- Specify time restrictions and create a schedule for limited sites if needed.
Certain apps can also be non-productive, such as games, messaging apps, video players, and more. HT Work Focus provides you with the capability to block or limit such applications. You can apply blocks or time limits to installed as well as non-installed programs.
- Navigate to Rules → App Blocking.
- Select «Block» to make app categories completely unavailable.
- Choose «Limit» to establish time restrictions and/or scheduling for app categories.
- Add your particular apps to the Custom list and assign the suitable status for each.
- Configure time restrictions and scheduling for Limited apps/categories.
With HT Work Focus, you can allow access to only certain websites and block all others. In this way, your employees can access only approved sites.
- Open Rules → Website Blocking.
- Add allowed websites/keywords to the Whitelist.
- Select the Allow only white-listed websites checkbox.
If your computers are on the same network, you can configure the Rules and view the Reports remotely.
- Install HT Remote Manager on your admin computer to track and manage activities remotely in real-time.
- Click Find Computer. The app will find all online computers with HT Work Focus on your network.
- Select the needed computer on the list and enter the default login ‐ admin and password ‐ admin.
HT Work Focus allows you to configure multiple computers easily with its import/export features.
- Open HT Work Focus on one of the computers and configure it according to your preference.
- Click Menu → Export Settings. Save the file with your setting on a flash drive or send it to your email. Then export it to the HT Work Focus on other computers — Menu → Import Settings.
If your computers are on one network, you can do it remotely:
- Open HT Remote Manager, select one of the computers and configure it according to your preference.
- Open its computer dashboard, click Export settings to file, and save the file.
- Select computers one by one and import your settings — Dashboard → Import settings from file.
Once installed, HT Work Focus keeps track of all users on the computer or terminal server. You can turn on or turn off any monitoring and filter functions for certain users.
Not all your users can be happy with the restrictions. Protect HT Work Focus and its filters against bypassing with these built-in options:
- Set up an access password > click Menu → Set Password.
- Click Rules > Enhanced Security.
- Select Restrict access to Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) to prevent HT Work Focus from stopping via task manager.
Have a question about using HT Work Focus? Need assistance with configuration? Please feel free to contact us. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
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