Change the text displayed for memory and page file meter tray icons (v2.8.2.160).
FreeMeter Professional:
Separate read and write bar graph lines for the disk and network meters (v2.8.2.160).
Bug fixes :
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Fix disk and network meter crash introduced in v2.8.2.160.
v2.8.1 (158) - February 20, 2005
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Change the text displayed on the physical and page memory graph meters. No longer display
MB used and KB used. Now display MB/GB used and MB/GB total.
FreeMeter Professional:
Add alerts settings for the text memory meters.
Uptime meter now supports logging. The logging is in seconds of uptime.
Change the text displayed on the physical and page memory graph meters.
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter Professional:
Fixed bug which prevented the "Memory Pages/sec" meter from logging
data to a file.
Fixed bug that caused the CPU alert to continuously trigger while it was in
the alert state. It will now only trigger once upon entering the alert state.
v2.8.0 (153) - April 10, 2004
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Increases the maximum volume alert size from 99,999MB to 999,999MB.
FreeMeter Professional:
Add support for computers with 3 and 4 CPUs.
Folder usage dialog now has support for moving, copying, deleteing, and hiding
folders via right-click.
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
The "Remote Computer" pane in the Preferences dialog was not updating
the Apply button.
Will now shrink the Uptime meter text until it fits in the window.
FreeMeter Professional:
Fix bug which caused the file cache meter to use the wrong units when reporting
only one size. Also changed it so that the meter always reports just MB, never MB
and KB.
Statistic summary dialog did not support more than 2GB of memory.
LCD physical memory meters would update with page file space instead of physical
memory space if a page file meter was open and was below the last physical memory
meter or there was no physical memory meter open.
v2.7.7 (150) - September 3, 2003
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Much improved non-English language operating system support. All languages should
now be supported equally.
Reversed the display order of KB and MB in the Page File Graph, Physical Memory
Graph, and Memory Pages/sec. Graph meters so that the MB reading will have priority
when the meter is too small to display both MB and KB.
FreeMeter Professional:
New System File Cache meter. Shows memory currently in use by the file system cache.
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Fixed bug which would sometimes cause FreeMeter to open on the wrong monitor
on multiple monitor systems.
Fixed bug that would cause meters to sometimes lose their height setting when they
were set to be higher than 100 pixels.
Improved the appearance of some dialogs when running under Simplified Chinese.
FreeMeter Professional:
Build 149 had a problem monitoring the processes on remote computers. This is fixed
in build 150.
v2.7.6 (147) - August 3, 2003
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Application dialogs now take on the Windows XP theme appearance when running under
Windows XP.
The disk and network meters will now automatically switch units to MB/s (or Mb/s)
when the transfer rate goes above 1,024 KB/s (or 1,024 Kb/s).
The system tray icons for the various drive meters should now appear in the same
order (left to right) as they do in the drive meter itself (top to bottom).
You can now initiate system hibernation mode, stand-by mode, logoff, restart, or
shutdown from a FreeMeter system tray icon.
Meters set to display line graphs can now draw the line graphs 2 pixels wide instead
of one.
File logging has been enabled for the Windows 95b/98/ME resource meter.
FreeMeter Professional:
The optional external LCD display can now show CPU usage for both processors on
dual-processor computers.
The optional external LCD display can now display drive space usage.
Preferences can now be saved under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE as well as HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
See the "Application Options" pane in the preferences dialog.
The dialog on a fresh launch to enter required email settings is gone.
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Fixed bug with default FreeMeter system tray icon being displayed all
the time if the drive meter was off.
When the screen resolution changes, FreeMeter will reposition itself to
stay on-screen.
FreeMeter Professional:
When using the "/pref" command line switch, the application would always
re-ask for registration information.
Network meter would fail when used on a remote computer.
In previous versions, process meter lines would only get wider. Now they will shrink
again if required to fit missing data.
v2.7.5(139) - January 19, 2003
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Meters now continue to run while a folder usage dialog is displayed.
FreeMeter Professional:
[Windows NT4, 2000, XP only] There are now two network meters. If your server has
two network cards, you can monitor the traffic on both.
You can now have more than one folder usage window open from multiple volumes in
the drive space meter.
[Windows NT4, 2000, XP only] There is now a memory pages per second graph. This
graph indicates the rate at which pages are read from or written to disk to resolve
hard page faults. This meter is a primary indicator of the kinds of faults that cause
system-wide delays. If this meter shows a lot of activity when your computer is being
slow, you may need more memory.
[Windows 2000, XP only] You can now make the main application window semi-transparent.
See: "Preferences -> Application Options".
You can now display volume free space information on the external LCD display.
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Better behavior when drive meter is off: The application window size no longer
restricts itself to the width of the drive meter when the drive meter is off. The
drive meter no longer updates the volume free space information when the drive meter
is off.
Better behavior of disk meter text when getting high transfer rates (text does
not go outside meter window).
Meter order is maintained better when a new version of the application has a new
type of meter.
v2.7.4 (131) - September 2, 2002
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Fixed problems with the startup of the email reading plug-in. (131)
FreeMeter Professional:
The application would crash on launch if run on a system which had more than 8
IP addresses assigned to it. (129)
The bug fix introduced in 2.7.3 to fix a minor process meter problem when dismissing
the Preferences dialog caused a bigger problem. The process meter would appear dead
sometimes after editing preferences. The fix was removed. (129)
v2.7.3 (127) - August 23, 2002
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
The FreeMeter window now snaps to the edges of the screen as you move it.
FreeMeter Professional:
The ping and process meters now support logging to a file.
EMail alerts can be sent to more than one email address (you can do that in the
current version, just separate them with a comma, but the total length is limited
to 40 characters).
You can open an Explorer window on any of the folders displayed in the folder usage
dialog. [user suggestion: Shawn M.]
All memory meters now log available, used and total memory information instead
of just used memory information.
CPU meters can now generate alerts when the CPU usage goes above a set limit for
a specified period of time. [user suggestion: Douglas A.]
The number of hosts allowed in the ping meter has increased from 30 to 40.
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Fixed miscellaneous bugs that occurred when FreeMeter was not hidden from
the task bar.
FreeMeter Professional:
The process meter did not update correctly after dismissing the preferences dialog.
v2.7.2 - May 11, 2002
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Statistics summary dialog now includes current CPU activity. [user
suggestion: Terrence B.]
The Windows 95/98/ME Resource meter can now display either the amount of free resources
or used resources. [user suggestion: Bob B.]
Can now turn off the title on the text memory meters.
The "Start Hidden" option is gone. FreeMeter now remembers its
last state and restores it when run. [user suggestion: Karim S.]
FreeMeter Professional:
Folder usage dialog now includes last modification date/time information. [user
suggestion: Shawn M.]
The text memory meters can now be drawn in a larger font if you want.
Added an option to change the meter drawing method so that updates will be compatible
with remote access software such as VNC or
PCAnywhere. Turning this option on can cause some redraw flicker..
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
When a Windows 95/98/ME system wakes up from stand-by, meters should now continue
to work. [thanks Robert B.]
Fixed a divide by zero error on startup that seems to only occur on a very small
number of computers. [thanks Troy A.]
v2.7.1 - March 9, 2002
New features:
FreeMeter Professional Only:
Remote monitoring support for the process meter (except for total CPU time used).
Bug fixes:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
Improve multiple monitor support.
After refreshing the list in the folder usage dialog, the sort order radio buttons
would not be accurate. The list is now automatically resorted in the same order it
was in before the refresh.
FreeMeter Professional Only:
The meter alert configuration dialog contained references to the Drive Space meter
even when the Ping meter was selected. This was just a cosmetic problem.
The LCD's COM port would be opened even if the LCD feature was turned off.
Remote network monitoring would not work if both the server and client weren't
running NT 4.
v2.7.0 - January 26, 2002
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
You can now specify your own sound file to play when a drive's free space drops
below the set warning level.
Ability of Copy the Drive Space meter data to the clipboard. [user
suggestion: Ted H.]
In the folder usage dialog, you can now specify the folder sort order. [user
suggestion: Shawn M.]
FreeMeter Professional Only:
Support for external LCD displays. [user
suggestion: Steve M.]
Ability to send an email when a drive's free space drops below the set warning
level.
Ability to play any sound file or send an email when a host in the ping meter fails
to respond to a ping.
Memory meters now support systems with more than 2GB of memory (Windows 2000 and
later only). [user suggestion: Alan L.]
The ping timeout value used by the Ping meter can be set by the user.
The user can now specify the number of ping attempts to make before a server will
be considered down.
When monitoring a remote computer, the system tray icons can now contain the name
of the remote computer so that you can tell which icon belongs to which computer. [user
suggestion: Terje O.]
Bug fixes:
The dialog displayed on exit asking if you want to exit or hide FreeMeter should
only appear when it's suppose to now. It would sometimes appear randomly on exit.
Works better under the Spanish and Polish versions of Windows 2000.
v2.6.0 - July 23, 2001
New features:
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
You can now resize the main application window using the mouse. Only the width
of the window can be changed, FreeMeter continues to define the height of
the window.
Resource meter tray icon now shows the minimum value of the 3 resource pools rather
than the average. (Windows 95b/98/ME only)
Meter times can now be set at intervals up to 60 seconds (previously 30 seconds).
When FreeMeter is un-hidden, the drive meter now updates so that it reflects
accurate information when the window redraws. [user suggestion: dan_blah9@h...]
The drive meter can now display information in megabytes or gigabytes. [user
suggestion: Phyllis]
The meter context menu now contains a menu item to quickly turn on/off the meter's
tray icon. [user suggestion: Karim Shehadeh]
FreeMeter Professional Only:
User can set the limits for the color changes in bar graphs.
Added a user selectable hot-key to reactive the main FreeMeter window when
minimized or otherwise hidden. [user suggestion: ssvenn@o...]
Can now specify the alignment of the text below a graph (left, right or center). [user
suggestion: dapound@bi...]
Can now turn off the average information in the text below a graph. [user
suggestion: dapound@bi...]
Drive meter no longer logs to disk when the user forced the update, only when the
appropriate time has elapsed.
Bug fixes:
Works better under the Italian version of Windows 2000. [thanks Luigi
Calabrese]
Fixed a problem that prevented the network meter from working on the Windows XP beta.
I'd like to go on the record and sate the the problem was due to an undocumented change
in XP's version of "PdhEnumObjectItems", not a bug in FreeMeter. [thanks
Chris Chen ]
I think I may have fixed the problem that would cause the CPU meter's system
tray icon to freeze and no longer be updated.
Fix problem of registration information being written to wrong place in registry when
using the "/pref" option.
v2.5.2 - April 23, 2001
Bug fixes:
Works under the Swedish version of Windows 2000.
v2.5.1 - March 23, 2001
New features:
Resource meter now has a tray icon available. It shows the average of all three resource
pools. (Windows 95b/98/ME only)
Disk meter can now display units in bits or bytes per second.
EMail checks are now done is a separate thread so that FreeMeter no longer stops
running while email is being checked.
Bug fixes:
If the last host in the Ping meter does not respond to a ping, the ping meter will show
all hosts as un-responding. (Professional version only)
The network meter would crash under Windows 95b/98/ME. (Professional
version only)
Email plug-in left out of non-Pro installer.
v2.5.0 - March 3, 2001
New features:
New meters:
Uptime. Displays the amount of time since the system was last booted. [user
suggestion: Sepp Himmelbauer]
Ping. Ping a list of hosts to see which are up, which are down and which are just
slow. (Professional version only)
Resource Usage: GDI, User and System resource usage. (Windows
95b/98/ME only)
FreeMeter & FreeMeter Professional:
E-mail plug-in. Check and read your email.
System tray icons now include a label in the tooltip along with the percentage. [user
suggestion: Karim Shehadeh]
FreeMeter Professional Only:
The current date can now be appended to the end of log file names. This will give
you a daily rotation of log files.[user
suggestion: Chris Cioffi]
Ability to have the drive meter log to disk less frequently than the meter is
updated on screen. [user suggestion: Jeff Jack]
Network meter can now display units in bits or bytes per second.
Ability to put the remote computer name in the title bar.[user
suggestion: Bill Waiblinger]
The folder usage dialog is now re-sizable [user suggestion: Shawn
Miller]
Bug fixes:
Can turn off the application's efforts to keep the window on-screen. This improves behavior
on multiple-monitor systems.
Meter logs not always flushed to disk when application quits. (Professional
version only)
The Process meter now works under the German language version of Windows 2000. [thanks
Sepp Himmelbauer] (Professional version only)
Fix CPU, Disk and Network meters under Dutch version of Windows 2000. [thanks
Jan Paul de Frankrijker]
Support for the French version of Windows 2000.
v2.4.1 - September 17, 2000
Bug fixes:
Fix CPU, Disk and Network meters under German version of Windows 2000. [thanks
E. Patek]
v2.4.0 - August 19, 2000
New features:
Folder usage shell extension. (Professional version only)
The very first time FreeMeter is run, it will display a welcome message and then the
Preferences dialog.
Increase maximum number of processes that the processor meter will display from 24 to
32. (Professional version only)
Bug fixes:
Fix bug in auto-update feature that would sometimes cause FreeMeter to crash when it
could not find my server.
Fix some sort problems in the process meter. (Professional version
only)
Some problems monitoring remote network activity were corrected (Professional
version only)
v2.3.4 - June 8, 2000
Bug fixes:
Fix eventual crash after selecting "Exit" from the tray icon menu.
v2.3.3 - May 29, 2000 - Professional version only
New features:
Ability to include the volume name as a parameter to the user application run when the
free space on a volume drops below the warning level. (Professional version only)
Bug fixes:
Version 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 lost the ability to turn on and off logging on the Driver meter.
If you used v2.3.0 to turn it on/off, then v2.3.2 would do the correct thing. (Professional
version only)
v2.3.2 - May 24, 2000
Bug fixes:
I think I have finally fixed all of the meter preference editing problems that existed
on the Meters page of the Preferences dialog.
v2.3.1 - May 23, 2000
New features:
Ability to specify an application to run whenever the free space on a volume drops below
the set level. (Professional version only)
Bug fixes:
Could sometimes be a bit overly aggressive on right edge snapping on program launch.
Some occasional problems setting some preferences of some meters.
v2.3.0 - May 7, 2000
New features:
Added a Process meter. (Professional version only) (Windows NT & Windows 2000
only)
Can set drive meter update times in 30 second intervals instead of 1 minute intervals.
The minimum maximum value for the Net and Disk meters was increased from 0.01KB/sec
to 1KB/sec.
Color setting dialog now supports colors schemes (I added 3).
If main application window is sitting against the right and/or bottom edge of the screen,
it will stay there even if the width or height of the window shrinks or expands.
Bug fixes:
If AutoUpdate could not connect to my server to download a new version, the FreeMeter window
would disable and stop accepting user input (all the meters would continue to update).
Pressing ESC no longer exits application.
Pressing ENTER no longer exits application.
v2.2.0 - April 5, 2000
New features:
The Windows NT 4 version can now monitor all TCP/IP network traffic, just like the Windows
2000 version. (Professional version only)
Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 users can now change the network card that the Network
meter monitors. (Professional version only)
Network activity icon in system tray. (Professional version only)
Disk activity icon in system tray. (non-Basic versions only)
The system tray icons for the Page File and for Physical Memory now look different so
that you can tell them apart.
Pressing the close button on the main application window can now hide the main window
instead of closing the application.
Can change the color of the text memory meters. (Professional version only)
Bug fixes:
Somewhere alone the line, the ability to have a physical memory system tray icon disappeared.
It's back now.
Incorrect preference dialog was being displayed when user chose the Preference option
from the Drive meter's pop-up menu.
The log file checkbox was present in non-Professional versions (although it didn't actually
turn on logging).
v2.1.1 - March 21, 2000
Bug fixes:
The KB number in the total columns of the Page File and Physical Memory meters were too
large by a factor of 10 (some debug code slipped into the release version).
v2.1.0 - March 20, 2000
New features:
Dual CPU support. If you have two CPUs, you can monitor each separately in its own meter. (Professional
version only)
Two graph styles: the existing bar graph and a new line graph. (non-Basic versions
only) [user suggestion: Anthony Benitez]
v2.0.2 - March 8, 2000
Bug fixes:
Fixed bug in non-Professional versions that would cause random meters to be turned on
at times.
v2.0.1 - March 7, 2000
Bug fixes:
Fixed bug that caused FreeMeter to close itself after 10-30 minutes of running
under Windows 95/98.
v2.0.0 - March 5, 2000
New features:
There are now three versions of FreeMeter: FreeMeter Basic, FreeMeter and FreeMeter
Professional.
Text based Physical Memory meter.
Virtual Memory meters renamed to Page File meters.
Auto update feature. FreeMeter can periodically check my server for updates and
let you know when there is a new version available. [not available in Basic version]
Ability to control the number of drives that appear in the drive meter. A scroll bar
will appear if showing fewer drives than being monitored. [user suggestion: Mike Lucas]
Multiple meter timers. Meters can be updated at different intervals.
Folder usage. Find out how much space is being used by the folders on a drive. [not
available in Basic version]
Set meter colors. [Professional version only]
Bug fixes:
A few.
v1.8.0 - December 12, 1999
New features:
Ability to quickly collapse a meter to a small button. Click the button to bring the
meter back. [based on user suggestion: Karim Shehadeh]
The drive space meter of the window is now a true meter. You can position it anywhere
in the list of meters, hide it, close it and do other meter-like things with it.
Ability to set options separately for each graph.
Ability to turn off the auto-scale option for any graph.
Renamed the memory meters to "Virtual Memory" meters.
Added a "Physical Memory" meter.
Virtual Memory meter icon in system tray.
Added a menu item to the meter context menu to directly set the preferences for that
meter.
Added file logs. Each meter's data can be logged to a file. [user suggestion: rsnipper@os....]
Ability to monitor the CPU, Disk and/or Network activity of a remote computer. (Windows
NT only) [user suggestion: Shawn Miller]
Bug fixes:
While editing disk volume preferences, sometimes all of the check boxes would be cleared.
If the CPU meter and the Network meter were both off, the disk meter would not work properly.
v1.7.0 - November 4, 1999
New feature:
Support for disk and network meters under Windows 98/95.
Bug fixes:
Was not displaying all the text possible under each meter. Program was always choosing
the shortest text message even if one of the longer, more informative messages would fit.
[bug first appeared in v1.6.0]
Changing the Sound preference would not enable the "Apply" button. [found by
Howard Williams]
v1.6.0 - October 16, 1999
Added two new usage meters:
Added a disk usage meter (Windows NT only). Displays the KB/sec read from and written
to all your hard disk drives.
Added a customizable text based memory usage meter.
You can remove a meter by right-clicking on it.
You can change the display order of the various meters by right-clicking on them.
You can specify your own "friendly name" for a disk volume if you do not like
the name that FreeMeter chooses.
Added a "Statistics Summary" dialog that displays a lot of good numbers. Check
it out.
Changed the look of the CPU usage icon that appears in the system tray. It is now labeled "CPU" and
will show bright-red at 100%, bright-yellow when near 100% and green otherwise.
Double clicking the window title bar will now hide the window (just like right-clicking
title bar and selecting "Hide" in previous versions). As before, double-click any FreeMeter tray
icon to unhide (or right-click tray icon and select "Unhide"). [user suggestion:
Mark Fiorucci]
The default FreeMeter tray icon will not appear if all drive tray icons are off and the
CPU tray icon is on . [user suggestion: Johnny S. Olsson]
Options pertaining to the Windows NT-only usage graphs are disabled in the preferences
dialog under Windows 98. [user suggestion: Karim Shehadeh]
Added menu item to pop-up menus to take users to the FreeMeter web site.
Bug fixes.
v1.5.3 - September 22, 1999
Added option to make FreeMeter continue to query disk volumes that failed previously.
In the past if FreeMeter failed to get information for a disk volume, it would disable
that volume and not query it again until the user did a manual query. It worked this way
because if the failed volume is a network volume on a server that can not be found, it can
take a very long time to fail. If you had several of these volumes, it could cause FreeMeter to
take minutes to fail all those volumes. But this isn't necessarily what you want to happen
if say the failed volume is an empty ZIP drive. So now the user can choose.
Reduced color depth of image in about box. This reduced the size of the executable by about
100KB.
