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Re: Update-checking link for proxy configuration
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
That is the current IP address of our web-site. If you wish to whitelist an URL, you can add either our entire site or the precise path to the version number file, and version check should work: http://www.softperfect.com http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/version.txt
Re: Suggestion: Network adapter selection and renaming
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
Thank you for your feedback, those are good points! We have just updated the app so that it displays the graph menu out of the submenu. By the way, you can also set a global hotkey in Settings - Main for quicker access to show/hide the graph. We have also added a new Rename right-click menu option that can be used to rename any adapter in the list, which is accessible by going to Setting
Re: Font setting for taskbar extension
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
Thank you for your feedback. We have added font customisation that allows choosing the font name and size on the Graph tab in Settings. Please download the latest interim build and you should be able to set the font as you like.
Re: How to make the graph to display automatically on boot in v7
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
You certainly don't need to go back to version 6 for that. Simply click the Star button on the graph toolbar. This will make the graph to show up automatically next time your computer starts.
Re: Refresh button for Usage window
1 year ago, by Ann in NetGenius Forum
Thank you for the feedback. There is no "Refresh" button as we strive to keep application interfaces uncluttered whenever possible. Because one day is the smallest interval, for which precise usage numbers are displayed, any frequent pressing of a "Refresh" button most likely wouldn't reveal any significant change in those numbers. And for an occasional refresh, if the user
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
That's a good point! We have just removed the outline, and the graph should look a lot better on Windows 10/11. Please download a fresh copy from NetWorx page and install it over. Then reboot and the annoying border should be gone. After that, you can select the graph background colour that matches your taskbar, and the graph area will appear seamlessly integrated.
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
The display of the transfer rate on mouse hover had to be removed because it did not work well with some versions of Windows. However, you can assign the transfer rate display to the left mouse click, with the subsequent left click closing the pop-up:
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
The graph transparency is unfortunately incompatible with the anti-aliased drawing that is used in v7. As the graph lines and text are now drawn with antialiasing and blended with white background by default, it all looks good when the window behind is white, but otherwise it does not:
Re: Network connection indicator in the taskbar
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
NetWorx does not have custom colour-changing icons for connection status changes. However, there already is a similar built-in feature in Windows. When the connection goes offline, Windows displays a special icon in the notification area. It does not have the exact colours you want, but you still can quickly tell if your connection is online/offline by simply glancing at that icon:
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
NetWorx version 7 is now available for download. As usual, we appreciate your feedback. This is a complete rewrite of the product aiming at future extensibility and multi-platform support. The following has changed from version 6: Added: extensive macOS support. Added: colour schemes and dark mode support. Improved: uptime & downtime monitor. Improved: multiple graph support. Improve
Re: Cannot create a RAM disk due to "insufficient system resources"
1 year ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
Looking at your Task Manager figures, the issue is most likely due the Commit Charge getting too close to the Commit Limit. In your case, the commit charge (the total memory already requested by all applications) is 96 GB, and the commit limit (the total memory that can possibly be requested) is 102 GB. As RAM disks are fully allocated within the physical RAM and never paged out, adding a 7 GB
1 year ago, by Ann in Print Inspector Forum
With the installation on one device it would require just a single licence. There can be any number of admin users.
Re: Partial MAC-address matching
1 year ago, by Ann in WiFi Guard Forum
It seems that the partial match string should be AB:FE:4D (instead of AB:FE:3C that you entered). Additionally, once a device was found to be "unknown", it will keep appearing that way until the user takes action. This is to make sure that nothing sneaks in without the user's knowledge. To resolve your situation, add the partial match, then open All Devices and "Forget" t
Re: "Error running this report" problem with Gmail
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
You may need to create an app-specific password for Gmail in your Google account. Login into your Google account, go to Security, then App passwords (you have to have 2-step verification turned on for Gmail, otherwise Google makes this setting is unavailable). Then under Select app choose Mail, select your device and press Generate. Your new password should appear in a new window. Copy and save i
Re: What happens to application data after the free trial ends
1 year ago, by Ann in NetGenius Forum
When a trial ends, NetGenius stops working, but it doesn't delete anything until you choose to do so. Basically: if you uninstall it at any point, it will (as any decent application should) clean up after itself and delete its data. if you don't uninstall it and do not enter the licence key, it will not be working or collecting new data, but it will keep your settings and the data you have coll
Re: How to retrieve deleted database data
1 year ago, by Ann in Print Inspector Forum
There is no way to retrieve the deleted data unless you have a backup. Database cleanup is, by design, a full delete operation that purges all matching records and then compresses the database. So without a backup recovery is not possible.
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
There is no built-in direct printing option, as these days not many people do the printing. But yes, it is indeed very simple: save your result data to an HTML or text file and then print it from your web-browser or text editor.
Re: Incorrect Windows version info: Windows 11 is displayed as Windows 10
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
That scan uses an old API that can't fetch build number. Which means that for anything after Windows 10 it cannot determine what OS it is. Because they all have version 10.0 while the build number is not available in this API. You can instead use the Windows Name option in Remote WMI, as shown below. It should work correctly for any Windows version.
1 year ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
Yes. RAM disks can be one of two types: boot-time disks and logon-time disks. For boot-time disks GUI is not required as they are initialised automatically by the driver on system startup even if nobody logs on.
Re: No IP addresses, while MACs are listed multiple times
1 year ago, by Ann in Switch Port Mapper Forum
Depending on how your switches are interconnected, the reason you see one MAC address multiple times might be this: If, for example, you have device A connected to switch B in turn connected to switch C, it is possible that switch B would report device A, but switch B would too report device A as its MAC address came from switch B. I would recommend untangling this by scanning one switch at a tim
Re: Scanning for SSL certificates
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
That's a great suggestion, thanks! We have added the fetching of SSL certificate info. Please download the new build, open Options - Additional tab, and use SSL certificate information setting.
Re: Remote deployment and monitoring off-site computers
1 year ago, by Ann in NetGenius Forum
We don't know how Desktop Central works exactly, but there is a couple of ways to automate NetGenius installation: It can be made a part of a machine image deployed to target machines. It can be launched at the target machine with /SILENT or /VERYSILENT command line parameters. It's also possible to specify components to install. For example, this command will install only the service, without
Re: How to get IPv6 address of a remote workstation
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
IPv6 address lookup works like this: Network Scanner sends a multicast ICMP echo message to ff02::1 (all nodes on the local network segment). Network Scanner awaits for a few seconds for the local nodes to respond. This populates the neighbor cache with devices IPv6 addresses and MAC addresses. A regular scan is performed, and once an IPv4 device is found, its MAC address is used to lookup its
Re: Skype cache relocation to RAM drive
1 year ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
1. We have added Skype support in the latest build. 2. With Adobe Photoshop, this setting is accessible from Photoshop itself. There is probably no point in using a RAM disk as a scratch disk as Adobe states: QuoteAdobeA scratch disk is a hard disk drive or SSD used for temporary storage while Photoshop is running. Photoshop uses this space to store portions of your documents and their history
Re: Why session usage is different to send and receive total
1 year ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
It depends on what kind of 'dial-up' you are using. If it's VPN for example, then it's probably the amounts transferred before the VPN was connected and after it was disconnected.
Re: Using RAM Disk with VMware
1 year ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
It all depends on what you want to achieve and how you use those systems. Since I don't know how you are using them, the following advice is rather generic. As far as I understood, you have Windows 2019 host running Windows 2003 guest in VMWare and you want them to use RAM disk as much as possible to spare the NVM drive. In that case you would probably need two instances of the RAM disk app: on
Re: Thick white borders around menu lists in dark mode
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
The changes that we have made that remove the white borders should work on a valid profile and Windows settings. So if the Windows Explorer shows the menus nicely, so will our app. In your regular profile however it seems something is not quite right, so both Windows and NetScanner menus have this border. I would recommend recreating the profile to ensure both Windows Explorer and our app disp
Re: Thick white borders around menu lists in dark mode
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
Thanks for pointing out the issue with the menu. We have checked the code and it turned out that we were not 100% correctly setting the menu background. Specifically, there is a function called SetMenuInfo that amongst others takes two flags: MIM_BACKGROUND and MIM_APPLYTOSUBMENUS. The issue here that we were passing only MIM_BACKGROUND without MIM_APPLYTOSUBMENUS. This resulted in the menu bac
Re: Scan results show non-existing devices with TCP ports 80 and 8080
1 year ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
This would be because your computer with Network Scanner is outside the current subnet; that is, not in 10.20.157.x. In such case, the default gateway responds to every ARP request with its own address and routes connections through itself, which confuses the software. Try setting the ping method to ICMP only on the General tab in Options. This should eliminate all those "ghost" devi
Re: How to get a RAM disk that mounts on-demand
1 year ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
Each RAM disk remembers its last state. So if you mounted it, it will be re-created on the next boot or login. If you unmounted it, it will stay unmounted on the next boot or login. Therefore, if you think that you aren't likely to need a RAM disk next time, simply unmount it before logging off or shutting your computer down. Alternatively, you could use the console version ramdiskc.exe to crea