Copyright: 2000 Toolbox 1.0
Citation: © 1998 Network Associates, Inc.


WinGauge Lite

Wingauge Lite is a real-time monitoring program that can be configured to watch the following:

Physical Memory

This allows you to monitor Physical Memory use on your system.  If this warning goes on all the time, it’s an indication that you may need to buy more memory (i.e. SIMMS, SDRAM) or close down some applications.

Resources

Enabling this setting allows you to monitor Windows resources and enable an alarm at a specified threshold.  If your resources get too low resources, try closing some applications.  If this does not make the warning go away, this may indicate a memory leak.  This means that a program that you are running is not freeing memory and can cause Windows to crash.

Fragmentation

Enabling this setting allows you to monitor the fragmentation level of your fixed hard drives and enable the alarm at a specified threshold.

Disk Space

Enabling this setting allows you to monitor when your fixed hard drives are running low of free space.

SMART hard drives

Uses S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) to monitor if an impending device failure is detected.  This is only active if you are using a hard drive that uses SMART technology.  Please refer to your hard drive manual for details about your hard drive.


Wingauge Lite Properties

The Properties screen displays the current settings for WinGauge Lite.

System

Physical Memory - Setting this checkbox enables monitoring of Physical Memory.  A Warning dialogue box will show when Physical Memory usage is equal to or greater than the threshold setting.  The frequency of checks can by entering the number of minutes in the box directly to the right of the word “min.”.

Resources - Setting this checkbox enables monitoring of Windows Resources.  A Warning dialogue box will show when Resource usage is equal to or greater than the threshold setting.  The frequency of checks can by entering the number of minutes in the box directly to the right of the word “min.”.

Hard Drives

Fragmentation  - Setting this checkbox enables monitoring of Hard drive fragmentation level.  A Warning dialogue box will show when fragmentation of any of your physical drive is equal to or greater than the threshold setting.  The frequency of checks can by entering the number of minutes in the box directly to the right of the word “min.”.

Disk Space  - Setting this checkbox enables monitoring of disk space usage of all your fixed hard drives.  A Warning dialogue box will show when any of the fixed hard drives usage is equal to or greater than the threshold setting.  The frequency of checks can by entering the number of minutes in the box directly to the right of the word “min.”.

SMART Check  - Setting this checkbox enables monitoring of all your SMART supported drives.  A Warning dialogue box will show when a drive is possibly failing.  The frequency of checks can by entering the number of minutes in the box directly to the right of the word “min.”.

Run WinGauge Lite on Startup

Select this check box if you wish to execute WinGauge Lite automatically on Startup. Clear this check box to prevent WinGauge Lite from automatically loading on Startup.