The settings on this page are related to the filters used
to filter out unwanted windows from being processed by
SmartMinimizer.
Filtering is performed by taking into account the caption
(title) of the window being processed, and is based on the
well known use of the
* (star) and ? (question mark)
wildcards.
A filter is made of a list of user definable rules, each
rule being actually a mask against which the window's
caption is matched. If the window's caption matches any of
the rules that make up a filter, then the filter applies to
that window.
There are two filters used by
SmartMinimizer: the
'
Never' and the '
Always' filters.
If a window's caption matches one of the '
Never'
filter's rules, it will not be minimized to the taskbar
notifications area. This is useful for preventing
minimization to the taskbar notifications area of specific
windows.
For instance, if the '
Never' filtering is activated
and one of the rules is '*Internet Explorer*', no
Internet Explorer windows will be minimized to the
taskbar notifications area.
If a window's caption matches one of the '
Always'
filter's rules, it will be minimized to the taskbar
notifications area regardless of any match of the window's
caption with one of the '
Never' rules.
As in the example above, if the '
Never' filtering is
activated and one of the rules is '*Internet Explorer*',
activating the '
Always' filtering and adding the
'TheBlueScreens*' rule will result in no
Internet
Explorer window being minimized, except the windows
displaying
TheBlueScreens homepage.
The user interface
The user interface for both the filters is the same: a
combo box displaying the rules for the filter, an edit box
in which the rule masks are edited and three buttons:
'
Add', '
Update' and '
Delete'.
To add a new rule, enter the mask for the rule in the edit
box and press the '
Add' button
To change an existing rule, select it from the combo box,
change it's associated mask in the edit box and then press
the '
Update' button.
To delete an existing rule, select it from the combo box
then press the '
Delete' button.
