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- MONTOR.EXE (VERSION 1.0) Copyright (c) 1993 Neil Rubenking
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- First Published in PC Magazine December 7, 1993 (Utilities)
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- MONTOR by Neil Rubenking
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- PURPOSE:
- MONTOR tracks your system's available memory, free system resources,
- and disk space, and warns you if any one of them drops below preset warning
- points. MONTOR uses Windows' drag-and-drop features to change alarm levels.
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- SETUP:
- To install MONTOR, unzip the file MONTOR.ZIP into a directory on
- your hard disk, move the file DISKDLL.DLL into your Windows system directory
- (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM), and then create a Program Manager icon for
- MONTOR. If you want to run MONTOR automatically every time Windows starts,
- simply drag its icon into your Startup group. MONTOR requires the Visual
- Basic 3.0 runtime module VBRUN300.DLL. If you don't have this file on your
- system, download the file VBRUN3.ZIP from Library 10 of ZiffNet's TIPS forum
- and unzip it into your Windows system directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM).
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- REMARKS:
- MONTOR displays from five to eight gauges that register the
- percentage free of various system resources. The first three gauges
- correspond to the three Free System Resource values: System, GDI, and
- User. The fourth gauge tracks available memory, including virtual memory
- created by using a Windows swap file. The last one to four gauges monitor
- up to four fixed disks--hard disks, hard disk partitions, or RAM disks.
- If the system has fewer than four fixed disks, MONTOR's main window shrinks
- to omit the extra gauges.
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- Each gauge is a vertical line marked off in increments of 10
- percent. To the left of the line is a yellow current-value pointer that
- graphically displays the value shown in the Free Percent label. The red
- warning-level pointer to the right of the line represents the Warn At label.
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- MONTOR initially sets the warning levels by reading values from
- the file MONTOR.INI. If this file does not yet exist, MONTOR sets the warning
- levels to a default value of 20 percent. To set a warning level yourself,
- just grab the pointer with the mouse and then drag it to the desired
- location.
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- Neil J. Rubenking is technical editor of PC Magazine.
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