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Performance Validator Help

 

The help menu

 

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

 

Each item is covered briefly below, in menu order.

 

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help-menu

 

 

Tips

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Tips... instructionStep 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.

 

tip-dialog

 

 

About box

 

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

 

about-box

 

 

Overview video

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Overview Video... instructionStep 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.phpexternalLink and find the product link for Performance Validator.

 

 

overview-video

 

 

Read-me and version history

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Readme... instructionStep 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 historyexternalLink.

 

 

Help HTML

 

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

 

You might be reading this right now!.

 

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

 

 toolbar-help

 

note The b_f1 key also shows the help, but has the added bonus of jumping directly to the page relevant for the current view or dialog.

 

note 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

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Help PDF instructionStep shows the PDF version of this help

 

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

 

PDF help for all our products are onlineexternalLink.

 

 

Help on softwareverify.com

 

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

 

 

Blog

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Blog instructionStep shows the Software Verify BlogexternalLink.

 

 

Library

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Library instructionStep shows the Software Verify Library - all our best articles organised into related topicsexternalLink 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 onlineexternalLink in the form of short videos and examples covering popular topics.

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Tutorial... instructionStep 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.

 

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

 

 

Contact customer support

 

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

 

 contactCustomerSupport

 

How do I?

 

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

 

 howDoIDialog

 

 

Report a crash

 

menu Help menu instructionStep Report a crash instructionStep 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.

 

report-a-crash-dialog