NikNak

NikNak is a bar usually docked with autohide enabled that gives access to useful information quickly as well as giving quick access to starting favorite programs without having icons all over your desktop.

If you have NikNak set to be a autohiding docked bar and have "Show window contents while dragging" enabled in Windows "Display Properties" NikNak will smoothly appear and disappear.

To change or delete a "QuickStart" button right-click over it.

To create a "QuickStart" button to special desktop icons such as My Computer you need to create a shortcut first and drag this onto NikNak, you can then delete the shortcut you created.

If the program is docked on the left or right screen edge or is undocked with a vertical layout and you want to change the width of the NikNak display then you need to drag the inner-most edge to get the size you want.

The size is fixed when NikNak is docked on the top or bottom screen edge.

To close a "docked" window right-click on either the window or the System Tray icon and select "Exit Program".

To see what the height of the graph is click on it or the number next to it, the number will show the height for several seconds. If you do not have "Show average on the numeric indicators" selected and you click again the number will show the average, over the last minute, for several seconds.

If you have NikNak docked but don't want NikNak on the top of all programs you can temporarily disable this by selecting "Not on Top when Docked". This will stay this way until you either restart NikNak, access the NikNak right-click menu or double click on the System Tray icon. You can check the status of this by moving the mouse over the System Tray icon. An example of when you may want to use this is playing a game that uses the full screen.

You can display a small pop-up calendar via the right-click menu. If you click on a date you will be told how many days until that date. You can display a clock via the right-click menu that takes up the screen workspace area, right-clicking on it gives several options, these options are saved when NikNak is closed.

Normally the clock can be closed by clicking on it but if you want to display the clock for a while and do not want to accidently close it you can select the option to only allow it to be closed via its right- click menu.

You need to have NetNak set up on the computer that has the modem, NetNak then needs have the "Modem Sharing" settings set up. Both NetNak and NikNak need to have the same version of "NetNak data link" (on the "Sharing" page of NetNak's settings and on the NetNak page of NikNak's settings).

Here are some key features of "NikNak":

�￭ Show the time, date, day of the week simply. �￭ Show computer processor usage. �￭ Show memory usage. �￭ Show drive space free or in use simply �￭ Show internet usage (works with modems, cable modems, DSL, ADSL etc) or modem usage (modem usage display is available on a network that shares a modem and that has NetNak monitoring it). �￭ Gives you easily setup "QuickStart" buttons to start your favorite programs �￭ quickly. �￭ Gives easy access to a calendar. �￭ Gives easy access to a large clock.

Limitations:

�￭ 30 days trial.