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The main window display the
actual size and the free space of the drives. To bottom - left, a display bar shows
the monitoring in progress. Monitoring may be paused or resumed. To right a indicators
counts in percentage of filled up space. |
The Options item in the Menu opens The Options
dialog to set FreeSpace main parameters.
Refresh rate: The rate at which FreeSpace controls the free space on
drives. The value expressed in milliseconds may vary between 100 and 900,000. You
are advised to set values higher than one second on slow machines. You may also
set the multiprocessing priority: high priority (e.g. Real time) means that FreeSpace
monitoring is privileged over concurrent processes. Low priority (e.g. Lowest )
enables FreeSpace monitoring only when no processes are sharing resources.
Thresholds: Here you set the size of the free space you need: when
that value is reached, FreeSpace prompts a sound alert message.
- To set Threshold: in the list box select the drive, digit the value
you need in the GB, Mb, Kb, Bytes edit controls, then press the Apply button.
- To remove Threshold: in the list box select the drive, and press
the Remove button.
- To enable the alert and control: Tick the check box left of the
drive to monitor.
- Alert: FreeSpace prompts a sound alert message when Sound alert
check boxes are checked. You may want to set the default sound by pressing the Import
sound button, provided a sound card already installed on PC, then choose any Wave
file. Without any sound card, the Import sound button is disabled: the sound alert
will be prompted by your PC speaker.
Aspect: Here you may want to customize FreeSpace interface.
- Always on top: The interface is always visible and let you control
the free space remaining while working with other programs.
- Startup minimized: FreeSpace icon is in the Application Area of
your Windows Task bar and displays a help text on the free space monitored when
you put cursor on it. FreeSpace interface is automatically restored on top when
minimum size of free space on disk is exceeded.
- Startup hidden: FreeSpace icon is in the Tray Area of your Windows
Task bar and displays a help text on the drive monitored when you put cursor on
it. A popup menu with program items will appear when you right click the icon.
- Startup with logo: FreeSpace displays the information dialog box.
Uncheck this option for quicker startup.
- Startup reduced: FreeSpace interface is reduced to a bar showing
available free space on disk.
- Save window coordinates: FreeSpace interface appears in the same
position as in the previous session.
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The Performances dialog which
allows you to test the overall performance and the read/write speed of your hard
drives and of the remote hard drives of your network.
You can display results in a variety of graphs: Open Chart type
combo box and choose among the different options. To show the type of data for each
drive tested, choose in the Display combo box among: Read only , Write only , General,
All data.
Further options on graphs displayed:
- Copy: displayed graph is pasted to Windows clipboard as Bitmap
(BMP) file for any embedding.
- Print: it opens the Print dialog box to send graph to the printer.
- 3D: displayed graph is shown in 2 or 3 dimensional shape.
- Save: it saves displayed graph and its settings as GFC file.
- Open: it opens a GFC file showing saved settings.
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The Inspect command in the main
Menu opens the dialog box Inspector which displays information on a drive or a specified
folder chosen by the user in the list box Folder to check. By pressing Inspect button,
FreeSpace gets information on size and number of folders, subfolders and files,
and put it into the labels. |