The help menu

 

The help menu provides access to useful help, tips and tutorials.

 

Each item is covered briefly below, in menu order.

 

 

 

Tips

 

Help menu Tips... shows the tip dialog where you can browse tips in random order

 

Here you can also choose whether to display the tips dialog while launching programs.

 

 

 

About box

 

Help menu About Performance Validator... shows contact and copyright information, as well as details of your license

 

 

 

Overview video

 

Help menu Overview Video... opens a new dialog showing a short video

 

The video has sound and does not play automatically.

 

The video is also available on the product website. Visit https://www.softwareverify.com/products.php and find the product link for Performance Validator.

 

 

 

 

Read-me and version history

 

Help menu Readme... opens the readme.html (from your installation) in your browser.

 

The readme file contains all the latest information about Performance Validator including:

 

•basic information about getting started and where to go for support

•known issues

•version history

 

To see what's changed since the version you have installed see the latest version history.

 

 

Help HTML

 

Help menu Help topics... shows the HTML help dialog

 

You might be reading this right now!.

 

Or click on the question mark icon on the standard toolbar:

 

 

 

The key also shows the help, but has the added bonus of jumping directly to the page relevant for the current view or dialog.

 

We occasionally get reports of customers seeing exception errors while viewing the HTML help. Unfortunately, we don't have a solution for this!

 

 

Help PDF

 

Help menu Help PDF shows the PDF version of this help

 

You will need a suitable PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, but do beware of unwanted add-on installs.

 

PDF help for all our products are online.

 

 

Help on softwareverify.com

 

Help menu Help on softwareverify.com shows the online version of this help

 

 

Blog

 

Help menu Blog shows the Software Verify Blog.

 

 

Library

 

Help menu Library shows the Software Verify Library - all our best articles organised into related topics for easy access.

 

 

Tutorials

 

The tutorials are intended to guide you through learning how to use aspects of Performance Validator.

 

All the tutorials are available online in the form of short videos and examples covering popular topics.

 

Help menu Tutorial... simply selects the Tutorial tab to show a list of the tutorials

 

Double click on the row of a tutorial in the list to open it in a browser.

 

Help menu Tutorials on softwareverify.com... opens the home the online tutorials in a browser

 

 

Contact customer support

 

Help menu Contact customer support shows the Contact customer support dialog.

 

 

 

How do I?

 

Help menu How do I? shows the How do I? dialog.

 

 

 

 

Report a crash

 

Help menu Report a crash displays the options for reporting a crash.

 

If an exception report for the Performance Validator user interface, or an exception report for an application that Performance Validator was monitoring is available it will be displayed with options to copy it to the clipboard and contact customer support at Software Verify.