
Disk Monitor			Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, 
------------			August 1999.

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).

You can also drag and drop files from Windows Explorer / File
Manager or similar product onto Disk Monitor to automatically 
start monitoring of the drive that the particular files reside 
on.  (Registered Users Only).


Big Disks :  (Greater than 2 GB in size)
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If you are using big harddisks (greater than 2 GB in size),
a 32-bit version of Disk Monitor is also available in the same
ZIP file (in the \32bit directory) which correctly handles 
these big disks.  This is a 32 bit version for use with 
Windows 95 98, 2000, and NT only.  This 32 bit version will 
**NOT** work under Windows 3.x even with Win32s installed.


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.
- Add in a screen to display details of each drive - sector 
  sizes, number of sectors, FAT 32/16, etc.

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


Limitations / Restrictions of the Shareware version :
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The Shareware version of this program has the following
limitations / restrictions :

- You can only monitor 2 drives.
- The program will not save its settings on Windows Shutdown,
  but it will still save its settings when you manually exit / 
  close the program - just not when Windows terminates the program.
- A "Shareware" label is displayed in the Menu area of Text Buttons.
- Every now and then a "You have used this program xxx times, 
  Please Register" message will appear on program startup.

To remove all the limitaions of the shareware version,
please Register.


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.  

But, it only costs $5 (FIVE) dollars to buy !

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-1996   First Public Release.
1.2   29-Sep-1996   Improve Settings menu option.
1.3   02-Oct-1996   Fix problem with Menu wrapping on some video cards,
                    which truncated the bottom line of the main window.
1.4   27-Jan-1997   Add in Registration functionality.
1.5   05-May-1997   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-1997   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-1997   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-1997   Add in Menu items for viewing my Shareware Catalog, 
                    the Readme file, and the Registration Form.
2.3   02-Jul-1997   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-1998   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 / comments).
3.1   25-Aug-1999   Produce a 32-bit version of Disk Monitor
                    for Windows 95 / NT which supports big disks -
                    i.e. handles harddisks greater than 2 GB in size.
                    This is a 32 bit version for use with Windows 95
                    98, 2000, and NT only.  This 32 bit version 
                    will **NOT** work under Windows 3.x even with 
                    Win32s installed.
                    Work around another bug in Borland Delphi 
                    to fix NTDLL.DLL errors on closedown which 
                    occured on some Windows NT configurations.
                    Fix "About ..." dialog's free resources %
                    in Windows NT.
                    Enhance "About ..." window with buttons to
                    copy my email and WEB page address to the
                    Window's clipboard, so user can simply
                    paste them into WEB Browser or Email program.
                    Position the Settings Window at Screen Centre.
                    Add in ability to drag and drop files onto
                    Disk Monitor to automatically start monitoring 
                    of the drive that the particular files appear on.
                    (Registered Users Only).
                    Add a "Free / Used" header on the main screen.
                    (4,722 lines of code / comments).
3.2   25-Aug-1999   Work around another bug in Borland Delphi so 
                    the 32 bit version of Disk Monitor can 
                    correctly handle 30 GB and far larger drives.  
                    (Fix required due to errors in Borland's 
                    suggested fix FAQ2552D on their WEB site).
                    (4,718 lines of code / comments).

If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then
it is possibly an old version.  The latest version of this 
program is available from my WEB page - see below.

Mike "Moose" O'Malley
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 Moose's $5 Shareware & Arcade Emulation Valley - since July, 1996.
 WEB   : http://move.to/moose           Email : moose@move.to
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