On the dashboard page, you have full control over the logging engine, which runs in the background. It is not visible in the taskbar or the task list.
Start / Stop will start or stop the logging engine. The current state is displayed beside the buttons.
STARR report: Press VIEW to decrypt the STARR log file and create the report. The output can be formatted as interactive HTML text (the option preferred by most users), or as spreadsheet (e.g. Excel or as plain text. Depending on your selection, the STARR Commander starts your default browser, spreadsheet or text editor to display the report. For the display of plain text, Notepad is typically the default viewer. If the log file is too large for notepad, WordPad is automatically used. Hint: If you do not like the default formatting of WordPad, press "Ctrl + A" to mark the complete text and change the WordPad font to "Courier New", then everything has the same formatting as in notepad.
If you select "STARR log" the STARR Commander decrypts the raw log only. This is typically only of interest if you want to use the STARR log as input to another application.
Delete both log files on exit: This options helps you to leave no trace if you decrypt & view a log file directly on a target PC (i.e. a PC under surveillance). Once you exit the STARR Commander, both log files are automatically deleted, so there is no chance of leaving a decrypted log file on the PC.
Note: If you use your browser to view the log file, the viewed HTML log might be stored in the browser's cache (depending on your browsers settings). This means a copy of the report log may be accessible even though STARR deleted the original file. Solution: If the log file contains confidential data, make sure that the web browser's "cache" and "history" is cleared before you leave the PC so no unauthorized person can view the output using the browser's "history". (If you need to know how this is done, you can find instructions here (online).
Send Email: Tests the Email settings. Sends the log file immediately. Useful for testing your email settings.
Tech Tip STARR PRO: You can use the "Send report via LAN" feature in STARR PRO Edition to automatically create reports on the *local* hard disk as well! This allows you to easily test the STARR report generation. It is also a very neat feature if you use STARR to log activity on your PCs for later reference. Since the STARR logging engine creates the reports automatically, there is no need to start STARR Commander to view the reports. For security reasons the reports can be created as password-protected ZIP file.