General Settings

The General Settings allow to configure general application settings as well as the visual aspects of the application.

These are configurable options pertaining to the applications functionality.

Device Control Layout

These settings control visual disk behavior in Disk Explorer and allow to Show or Hide system disk and devices which are not ready (offline)

Default Serial Number detection method
Select how Disk Clone retrieves the disk serial number by default. Values are: SMART, IOControl & WMI
Local Devices Initialization
Select which types of devices appear in Disk Clone by default: Fixed disks, Removable disks, CD/DVD/BD and Floppies
Computer ID
Configure how the Disk Clone workstation is identified in logs & reports. Values are: None, BIOS Serial Number, Motherboard Serial Number

Application Log File Settings

These settings apply to the log file generated by the application. All operations performed in a Disk Clone session will be saved in this log.

Log file location
Allows the user to specify where the application log file is saved. By default this is set to a Disk Clone installation directory
Application log detail
Manipulate the amount of details included in the logs. Options are: Minimum and Maximum
Initialize application log when application starts
This setting configures whether Disk Clone generates a new log file for every session (erasing the log of the previous session) or appends new sessions to one log file. Moreover, logs can be placed to the files being named using naming pattern specified

Environment

These are configurable options pertaining to the applications user interface and user experience.

Application style
Configures the color scheme used in the application. Values are: Blue, Olive, None (Use OS default) and Silver
Default toolbars style
Configures how icons are shown in the toolbar. Values are: Large icons, no text, Large icons, with text beside icon, Large icons, with text under icon, Small icons, with text beside icon, Small icons, no text
Figure 1: Large icons, no text
Figure 2: Large icons, with text beside icon
Figure 3: Large icons, with text under icon
Figure 4: Small icons, with text beside icon
Figure 5: Small icons, no text
Default help source
If available, user can select help documentation source to be addressed when requested. Values are: PDF, CHM and On-line web help
Reset All Dialogs
Pressing the button resets all the changes to default state.

Sound Notifications

These are configurable options related to application sounds: you can use either predefined values or assign your own sounds (<User defined sound file>)

Use Sound Notifications
Toggles sound tones being used for notifying the user of the completion of a task, errors and notification during an operation: Success/With Warnings/With Errors/Failures

Action Triggers

Configure actions performed while application is running

Automatically check for software updates
If this option set, application will check for a new updates during every start up
Action after all processes complete
Select either None, Hibernate, Shutdown or Restart system after all processes have been finished
CAUTION: You will have 30 seconds to abort system hibernation, restart or shutdown.
Export erase certificates and application log to all detected removable media
Upon erase completion all certificates and logs will be automatically exported to attached USB disks (removable media)