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  Shorty professional Tips and Tricks.
 
  1. Press F5 on Shortcuts page of the main window to refresh content immediately.
  2. To close the process information window
  (Tasks page / Popup menu / Show in separate window)
  press ESC. To change a transparence of the window use CTRL+ / CTRL-.
 
 
 
  3. Any page in main window may be hidden. To hide a page use popup menu on pages header.
 
 
 
  4. In Process details (Tasks page / Popup menu / Process details / System)
  Environment variables are editable.
 
 
 
  5. Right click on Minimize button of any window in the system minimize this window to tray.
  (That must be enabled: Settings / Others / Right click - minimize to tray).
 
 
 
  6. Middle click on Minimize button of any window in the system hide this window.
  The hidden window can be restored from Shortys menu (right click on tray icon / Hidden windows).
  That must be enabled: Settings / Others / Right click - minimize to tray.
 
 
 
  7. Hot keys CTRL SHIFT BACKSPACE call Shortys main window and set low priority for all processes
  in the system (high for Shorty).
  8. Hot keys CTRL DEL in the Task page kill the process without warning message
  (for security reasons not any process may be killed, to kill any process use CSHORTY utility).
  9. To use Windows spy double click on the OFF label (right bottom) in the Windows details window
  (Tasks page / Popup menu / Process details / Windows / popup menu / Windows details).
  After that in this window will be shown the information about a window under the mouse cursor.
 
 
 
  10. To change row height and font in the grids add in shorty.ini file sections [GRID#] (# 1-4):
 
  [GRID1] - first grid ("Shortcuts") section
  font=Arial - font name
  fontsize=8 - font size
  row=20 - row height
  row0=21 - first row (headers) height
 
  11. To show in tray HDD activity enable this in Settings/Other/Show hard drives activity.
  Red led show write action, green - read action.
  12. The process may be frozen (Tasks page / Popup Menu / Freeze process) just once.
  Use this if the process really must be stopped.