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General Options
Enabling this option will turn on a tray icon at all times. When PingPlotter is minimized, it will only be visible in the tray. When it’s not minimized, it will show on the taskbar and the tool tray. Alert conditions can be surfaced through the tool tray as well, in which case the icon will change to red and a message might appear. The "Round Trip" row of PingPlotter duplicates the information from the final hop and makes it evident that the host is reachable and what the round trip time and latency is. Before adding this option, we got a lot of questions "What’s the round trip time?". Feel free to turn it off, but we leave it on – it’s easier to quickly interpret what’s happening. Prompt to save on exit if lots of new data exists When PingPlotter is closed and has been collecting data, you might not want to just throw away all that data. If this checkmark is on and there are at least 75 unsaved samples in memory, PingPlotter will ask if you want to save it when closing. Minimize PingPlotter when Windows "close" command is used If you normally run PingPlotter all the time, you might not want it to close if you accidentally hit the "close" button on the application (ie: the Include settings name in target / host descriptions When tracing to the same target with different engine settings (see our named configurations documentation for more details), the only way to distinguish between the settings is by the named configuration. If you're only using one named configuration (or if you're tracing to all different targets), then this is not so helpful. Turn on this option to show the named configuration on all tabs and time graphs. For the summary graph, turn on the "Settings" column to show the named configuration used for that target.
Summary Graph Settings Summary graphs are exclusive to PingPlotter Pro. Automatically show final destination on default summary screen If this option is on, when you start a new target in PingPlotter Pro, that target will automatically add itself to the summary graph screen. The summary graph screen is a handy way to see the current status. Automatically show timeline graphs for targets added to summary screen When a new target or router is added to the summary screen, having a time graph automatically show up can be handy. The downside of this is that a long list of targets quickly fills up the screen and becomes less useful. Turn off this option if you find yourself regularly turning off a lot of the automatically added graphs. You can turn them back on at any time manually anyway.
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