
Disk Monitor			Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, 
------------			September 1996.


Disk Monitor for Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT.

Developed using 16-bit Delphi.

Disk Monitor displays :
- the free space in TB, GB, MB, KB, or bytes (whatever is suitable)
- the disk space used as a percentage of the total disk space
  for drives you select (also under the Settings menu).
- the overall totals for all drives you are monitoring.

Disk Monitor will monitor up to 26 drives (in the Registered 
Version).

Colour coding is used to show how critical disk space is 
becoming : green indicates that less than 85% of the disk
is used, yellow if between 85% and 95% is used,
and red if more than 95% is used.

Never again will you need to worry about unexpectedly running 
out of disk space when downloading large files from the Net, 
saving large documents / spreadsheets, or restructure large 
databases, because now it is so easy to keep track of all 
your drives.  A quick glance will tell you all you need 
to know !

The disk usage statistics are updated everry 30 seconds by 
default, but this can also be changed (also under the 
Settings menu).

Windows, drive, etc Settings are automatically saved to the INI
file when you exit Disk Monitor.  The settings are also
saved on Windows 95 shutdown (Registered Users only).


The Future :
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Much new functionality can be added to this program in the future,
such as :
- Add a column to hold the label description for each disk.
- Add a column to hold the type of drive : floppy, hard-disk, CD,
  network, etc.

If anyone requires any of this or other functionality,
or has any other suggestions, please email me and let me 
know !


Shareware Reviews / Awards / CDs :
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Version 2.3 of this program was included on
the INFOPC (french edition of PC World magazine, IDG) 
"the best tools to test your computer" cover CD 
for the February 1998 issue.


Sharware Information :
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This is NOT free software.

This product is shareware.  

This means that you can try out the software for evaluation 
purposes without charge for a period of 21 days to enable you
to decide whether to purchase / register it.

If you use this software after the 21 day evaluation period
a registration fee is required.  See the Registration Form
in the file register.txt.

Unregistered use of this software after the 21-day evaluation 
period is in violation of U.S. and international copyright laws.

If you do not purchase / register the software after the 21 day
trial period, then you must delete it from your system.

In order to encourage me to develop this software and keep 
developing other software, I encourage you to do the right 
thing and register the software.

I could have easily have made the programs nag you to Register, 
or expire after 21 days of use, but I do not like this approach.

From April 97 on, however, some of the new functionality being 
added to my programs will be available for Registered users only.
I tried to avoid doing this, but now I have been forced to do 
this to try and encourage some Registrations.

I live in the hope that if people use the programs, then they 
will register them.

Registered users will receive FREE upgrades of the program for
the life of the program.  i.e. as long as I keep improving the
program, registered users will get this new / additional 
functionality for FREE.

To Register, please complete the Registration Form in
the file register.txt.


Ammendment History :
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Vers    Date        Description
1.1     25-Sep-96   First Public Release.
1.2     29-Sep-96   Improve Settings menu option.
1.3     02-Oct-96   Fix problem with Menu wrapping on some video cards,
                    which truncated the bottom line of the main window.
1.4     27-Jan-97   Add in Registration functionality.
1.5     05-May-97   Now you can double click on the drive label,
                    space free label, or main form to refresh the 
                    drive statii.  Unfortunately, due to limitations
                    in Delphi, you cannot double-click on the 
                    individual graphs to refresh their statii.
2.0     09-May-97   Massive changes for this release !!
                    By popular demand, add in support for monitoring 
                    of up to 26 drives - in the Registered version !
                    Make Usage Bar Graphs lie horizontal instead
                    of vertical.  Make main Window shrink / expand
                    vertically as drives are added / removed to the
                    monitor list.  Show disk space free out of 
                    total disk capacity for each drive.  Add in 
                    support for Terrabyte and Gigabyte abbreviations 
                    in the disk sizes.  Tart up the settings window.
                    Add in tool tips for each field on the screen.
                    Optimise code - to reduce repetitiveness.
2.1     24-May-97   Save settings automatically on Windows 95 shutdown 
                    (Registered Users only).
                    Turn off "Drive not Ready" messages if the floppy,
                    CD, etc has been removed from the drive.
                    Start Minimised if set in Shortcut / settings
                    (Registered Users only).  
                    Improve application startup - size and position 
                    form before user sees it.
                    Use a yellow bar colour if the drive is between
                    85% and 95% used.  
2.2     17-Jun-97   Add in Menu items for viewing my Shareware Catalog, 
                    the Readme file, and the Registration Form.
2.3     02-Jul-97   Add in ability to display a Total's row, which 
                    will display overall disk space used, free, and 
                    total capacity.
                    (2,983 lines of code / comments).
2.4     11-Jan-98   Fix a long standing but very elusive problem
                    to do with "DateEncode" errors which occured
                    on some machines under some conditions.
                    Once I could replicate the error, it was
                    reasonably straight forward to get a workaround
                    for what was another bug in Delphi.
                    Remove scroll-bars from main window - which
                    appeared under some circumstances.  e.g.  when
                    monitoring a drive with 1000 KB left and the labels
                    are too long - a vertical scroll bar appears !
                    (3,133 lines of code.)


If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then
it is most likely an old version.  The latest version of this 
program is available from my Home page and its mirrors.

Moose
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