Time Monitor System Tray Program
Understanding and using the Time Monitor system tray application
This document contains information regarding the Time Monitor system tray application. It will give you a clearer picture on how Time Monitor monitors your computer system and what the system tray application provides. If you have an older release than Time Monitor v1.1.0 see this document.
The Time Monitor system tray program loads automatically when anybody logs on to the computer. You will know that it is running when you see the program's icon in the system tray area. The system tray area is usually located at the bottom right hand corner of your screen and contains various program icons installed by other applications. Here is a screenshot of Time Monitor's system tray clock icon:
The icon is the little round clock on the left. When you hover the mouse over the icon a popup ballon will indicate that Piranha Designs Time Monitor is running and monitoring the time of the account currently logged on.
A new feature recently added to Time Monitor now changes the clock icon to a gauge ball that shows the approximate amount of time remaining for the account currently logged on. For example, when the account has less than 45 minutes remaining but more than 30 minutes the gauge ball icon is displayed and looks like this:
When the account has less than 30 minutes but more than 15 minutes remaining the gauge ball changes and looks like this:
The gauge ball will change again at 15 minutes or less:
And finally will change to all red when the account is to be locked out.
When you click on the Time Monitor icon the About dialog box will be displayed that looks like this:
The About box will show you the version of Time Monitor currently running, copyright, registration and current user information. Notice that, in this case, the unregistered trial version of Time Monitor is running. A registered version would show the registered Username and registration key. The current user is displayed along with the time remaining. This particular user happens to be an administrator and the default time limit for administrators is always 24 hours.
Everyone with access to your computer can check their time remaining simply by clicking the program's system tray icon.
When the trial period has ended Time Monitor will no longer monitor accounts and any time limits set will not be enforced. The screenshot below shows the reminder message you will see when you log on that the trial period has ended and that you need to register in order to reactivate the monitoring functionality:
