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DiskPulse Options Dialog

Select the 'Tools - Advanced Options' menu item to open the options dialog.

DiskPulse Options Dialog General

The 'General' tab allows one to control the following options:

  • Show Main Toolbar - Enables/Disables the main toolbar
  • Always Show Profile Dialog Before Start - Instructs DiskPulse to show the profile dialog before starting the monitoring process.
  • Automatically Check For Product Updates - select this option to instruct DiskPulse to automatically check for available product updates.
  • Abort Operation On Critical Errors - by default DiskPulse is trying to process as many files as possible logging non-fatal errors in a process log. Select this option to instruct DiskPulse to abort operation when encountering a critical error.

The 'Shortcuts' tab provides the user with the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts. Click on a shortcut item to edit the currently assigned key sequence. Press the 'Default Shortcuts' button to reset all keyboard shortcuts to default values.

DiskPulse Options Dialog Shortcuts

The 'Proxy' tab provides the user with the ability to configure the HTTP proxy settings. DiskPulse uses the HTTP protocol in order to inquire whether there is a new product version available on the web site.

DiskPulse Options Dialog Proxy

By default, DiskPulse detects proxy settings and connects to the Internet directly or through an HTTP proxy depending on the configuration of the host computer. Depending on a specific host and network configuration, the user is provided with the ability to connect to the Internet directly, trough automatic HTTP proxy discovery or manually by entering the HTTP proxy server name and port.

DiskPulse Options Dialog E-Mail

The 'E-Mail' tab allows one to specify an SMTP e-mail server to be used to send e-mail notifications. Check the 'Enable E-Mail notifications' checkbox and specify a valid SMTP server name, an account name, a password and a source e-mail address to be used to send e-mail notifications through.

DiskPulse Options Dialog Database

DiskPulse Pro provides power computer users and IT professionals with the ability to export lists of detected file system changes to an SQL database via the ODBC interface. In order to enable the database export capability, open the 'Options' dialog, select the 'Database' tab and specify a valid ODBC data source name, user name and password.

DiskPulse News

13-May-2026

DiskPulse v18.1 adds support for new file types to the built-in file classification plug-ins allowing one to monitor changes in specific types of files and improves the disk monitoring statistics pie charts. In addition, the new product version adds the ability to view disk change monitoring reports and export disk change monitoring reports using the DiskPulse command line utility and fixes a number of bugs.

13-Apr-2026

DiskPulse v18.0 redesigns the disk change monitoring results dialog, adds the ability to filter disk change monitoring reports by the report ID and improves the disk change monitoring reports dialog. In addition, the new product version improves the JSON, CSV, text and XML disk change monitoring reports, improves the main DiskPulse GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

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