This page allows you to set all of CacheSentry Pro's global options. The page is divided into two sections: General Options and Advanced Options. Unless you have special requirements, you can usually leave the Advanced Options set to their default values.

GENERAL OPTIONS

Display icon in taskbar area
This turns on and off the program status taskbar tray notification icon. Normally, you would want to leave this on since it allows you to quickly access the CacheSentry Pro settings; however if you feel your taskbar is already too cluttered with icons you can turn it off. If you do turn it off and you need to get to the main window, simply run another instance of CacheSentry Pro and it will notice it is already running and will open the main window of the existing instance and the new instance will immediately exit.

Display offline mode icon in taskbar tray area
This turns on and off the taskbar tray notification icon that lets you control whether IE is in online or offline mode. For more info, see the Tray Icons section of this document.

Enable index.dat cache size bugfix
Internet Explorer keeps track of what it thinks is the size of all the content that is in the cache at the moment. This value sometimes gets out-of-sync, usually due to system crashes but on older versions of IE it simply wasn't calculated correctly. When this option is enabled, CacheSentry Pro checks this value in the index.dat file and fixes it to the correct size if it is off by more than plus or minus 1 megabyte.

Start with the CacheSentry Pro main window hidden
This is enabled by default. When checked (enabled), the main window is not opened when CacheSentry Pro is run. When this is unchecked the main window is displayed when you run CacheSentry Pro. This allows you to use the program as a manual cache management utility or if you need to use the cache tools often and don't want to go through the extra step of having to right-click on one of the taskbar notification icons to open the main window,

Run in kiosk mode
In the original CacheSentry, this was a command line option. Now it can be turned on and off from inside CacheSentry Pro. When kiosk mode is enabled, warning and error messages are redirected to the activity window instead of displaying a dialog window the user must click on in order to clear. Note that this mode does not lock users out of changing the settings of the program. If you are planning on using CacheSentry Pro in a public place, you should also disable both tray icons and make sure users cannot run another instance of the program by hiding any shortcuts to CacheSentry Pro and make sure they cannot use the "Run" command from the Start menu (since running another instance of Pro will open its main window).

Display full name of each manager in the activity window
If you do not care about seeing which manager in a manager set is deleting files from the cache, uncheck this box to disable this feature. It will save some space in the activity log as displaying the names of the managers uses two extra lines per manager per cache management cycle. In general, it's handy to keep this enabled especially when testing new managers.

Use alternate method of logging actions to the activity window
The scanning actions listed in the activity window are made easier to read with extra spacing and brackets around the manager names (if manager name displays are enabled). Also, the full time and date is displayed with each scan.

Start CacheSentry Pro when you log in/start Windows
When checked, CacheSentry Pro puts an entry in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Startup registry key so every time you log in or restart Windows, it will automatically start CacheSentry Pro in the background. Unchecking this box removes the autostart entry from the registry automatically.

ADVANCED OPTIONS

Time to wait before doing initial scan at startup
CacheSentry Pro waits a few seconds before scanning the cache in case the user is starting the program automatically when they start Windows or log in. This delay is in place because scanning the cache causes a lot of hard disk activity on the initial scan and this may slow down the boot up or login time into Windows. If you have a slow computer or other special circumstances with your cache you can increase this value so CacheSentry Pro waits longer before doing the initial scan. if you never plan to run CacheSentry Pro automatically at startup you can set this value lower as that will make the program update the initial cache size display and technical info on the cache sooner.

Time to wait between scans when awake
When CacheSentry Pro is in its awake status because the cache is actively being used, this is how long it waits between each scan of the cache. If you want the program to scan and manager the cache more often, set this value lower. If you want to save a few CPU cycles and not have the cache scanned so often, raise this value.

Do this many normal scans per stray file scan
This tells CacheSentry Pro how many normal scans must be done before doing the next stray file scan. (The stray file scan is always done at the initial scan at startup). By default, the program checks for stray files on every scan of the cache and this gives the most accurate cache size calculation. However, scanning for stray files takes twice as long (or more) compared to just scanning for the normal cached files. Therefore, on slower computer systems you can do stray file scans less often by increasing this value. When you do this, you may see a sudden drop in the size of the cache on subsequent scans since the strays will not be included in the cache size calculation. You will then see the size increase when the stray scan is finally done. This will not create any serious cache management issues as the only side effect will be the cache will quietly grow slightly larger than what you have set its size to and then will be suddenly reduced by that extra amount when the strays finally are scanned.

Note that the manual management buttons (actual and simulated) on the main window always scan for stray files, no matter what value this option is set to.

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