Settings - General Options

Launch on StartUp
If checked, Active Desktop Calendar will
automatically launch on Windows start up.
Show splash screen
If checked, Active Desktop Calendar will show
splash screen while loading.
Calendar Standard
Calendar 1st day of
the week
Allows you to specify which day you want to be
used as the first day of the week for desktop calendar.
Time (12h, 24h or
Win)
This option allows you to choose between 12h AM/PM
and 24h international time format in the program's dialogs. However,
the default setting is Win and in that case the program will use the
time format from your regional settings in Windows.
Desktop Components
Show calendar
Toggles whether the calendar will be displayed on
your desktop.
Show notes
Toggles whether notes will be displayed on your
desktop. If Show Notes is disabled, the
entire sidebar will be used for showing Tasks, regardless of the
specified Notes/Tasks ratio.
Show tasks
Toggles whether tasks will be displayed on your
desktop. If Show Tasks is disabled, the
entire sidebar will be used for showing Notes, regardless of the
specified Notes/Tasks aspect.
If both Show Notes and Show Tasks options
are disabled, the entire sidebar will not be shown.
Interactive Desktop
Use interactive
desktop
Enables or disables interactive desktop
functionality. With this option enabled you can double click directly
on the calendar date on the desktop and get Active Desktop Calendar
workspace opened with highlighted date. The system works in a similar
way for notes and tasks. If you double click on note or task header you
will get Active Desktop Calendar workspace and if you double click
directly on a note text you will get Edit Note dialog for that note.
Use right click for additional interactivity options like opening,
deleting and adding notes and tasks.
Select mouse mode
Determines whether Active Desktop Calendar's desktop components
(calendar, notes, tasks) will react on single or double mouse click.
System Tray
(Taskbar) Icon
ICL - Different
icon every day (Change)
The system tray icon will change every day to
display the current date. Click Change to select a calendar icon
library for this option.
ICO - Single
icon all the time (Change)
The system tray icon will always be the same.
Click Change to select an icon for this option.
Notes
Display notes for
next ... day(s)
Determines how many days in the future to be
considered for showing notes on the desktop.
Auto delete notes older than ... day(s)
If checked, Active Desktop Calendar will delete
notes when they become old according to the current date of the system
clock and the number of days you set as reference.
Automation
Exit program at
[hh:mm]
If enabled, this option allows you to set the time
when
the program should exit automatically. This is useful for automated
backups of the Outlook's PST file. If you are using Outlook layer in
Active Desktop Calendar then you know that the program
keeps Outlook's PST file locked so you first have to exit
it when
you want to backup your PST file. That's fine if you are performing
backup manually, but makes trouble for an automated backup. In that
situation this option is your solution. For example, you can set the
program to
exit automatically during the night at 2:00 and your backup
software to start working at 2:05 and everything should work
fine
and your backup saved.
Pop-up at
[hh:mm]
If enabled, this option allows you to set the time
when
the program should show the calendar view automatically. Typically this option is useful when you keep your computer running all
the time, but would still like to have the calendar view show up on the
screen every morning. By
default, the program pops-up the main calendar month view, but if you
selected some other view to show on startup then that view will be the
one to pop-up.
Multiuser Option (option removed)
NOTE: Starting
with version 6.8
this option is no longer available. The program now keeps all data in a
single database file stored in the user profile and for that
reason automatic layer sharing between users on the same
computer
is not possible. Additionally the strict security model in Windows
Vista does not allow that kind of sharing so the option had to be
removed.
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