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- WHAT! - Laptop Battery & System Monitor - FREEWARE
- Version 1.9 September 1997
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- Features: battery life in minutes
- battery life as a percentage
- visual variable battery icon
- visual power plug if battery is charging
- current time with clock chiming once per hour or number of hours
- laptop suspend
- stay on top feature
- Run program function with one recall
- Icon on system tray (Battery and Power plug)
- Five possible tray icons depending the on battery charge
- level with detailed tool tip
- Command line option to suspend /n (runs multiple copies of What)
- User defined menu options and commands (9)
- Caters for older APM Laptops
- Borderless display if desired
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- v 1.5 Drag capability to move display on screen with left mouse click
- Right mouse click and Space bar to access the Popup Menu
- Double click to display or hide border
- Exit Windows option /u
- Wallpaper Changer - when What starts up
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- v 1.6 Option to Disable Clock, Battery Status or both (why both ???)
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- v 1.7 Changes Wallpaper at user defined intervals
- Battery Image stretchs in size from 0 - 100%
- CPU Usage Percentage Meter option (you are able to leave
- only a thin CPU Meter line on the screen if all other
- displayd are turned off)
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- v 1.8 Full access to all Performance Values to monitor as well as CPU
- e.g. Modem speed, disk usage, network speed, memory usage
- caching and swapfile usage.
- Update CPU and Performance displays at user defined intervals
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- v 1.9 Displays JPEG's as wallpaper if found in the picture directory
- (automatically converts the JPEG into a bitmap)
- Can select pictures randomly or from the top
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- WHAT! displays the amount of battery
- life in minutes and as a percentage. Also
- displayed is the current time and battery
- images showing the charge level and
- a power plug if the battery is being
- charged. Visual clues are provided if the
- battery is low. Resides on the System tray
- with options available via right-mouse click.
- Options include: Clock Chiming, Laptop Suspend
- and Shutdown, automatic Wallpaper Changer
- (JPEG & BMP), User defined programs.
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- Full access to all Performance Values
- to monitor as well as CPU e.g. Modem
- speed, disk usage, network speed,
- memory usage and swapfile status.
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- ----------WINDOWS 95 Only--------------
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- Installation: Make a directory
- Unzip all files
- Run the program - WHATD.EXE
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- To change the cuckoo chime, copy any of
- our own chimer to cuckoo.wav
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- ANY comments and enhancements will be
- highly appreciated.
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- Ashok Kumar
- PO Box 1574
- Dunedin
- NEW ZEALAND
- email: ashok.kumar@islnz.co.nz
- www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/7980/index.html
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