Disk monitoring settings

You can specify disk monitoring options in this settings dialog.

You can monitor all the hard-disks (recommended) or only the folders you specify.

There are two monitoring type options:

Live monitoring monitors the disk changes in real time. Immediately after the the setup program creates, deletes or modifies a file or a folder on your hard-disk, the installation monitor knows about it and writes this information to the install log.

This is the recommended mode. However, this mode doesn't work on Windows 98.

Using snapshots for monitoring works like this:

The installation monitor reads information about all the files and folders on your disk. This information is called a snapshot.
The setup program of the application installs the application. During the installation, the setup program creates files and folders on your hard-disks.
After the application has installed itself, the installation monitor makes another snapshot. That means it records information about all the files and folders on your disks to a snapshot.
The installation monitor compares the snapshot made before the installation with the snapshot made after the installation, and makes a list of the files that have been added, deleted or renamed by the installation program.

Because of the time required to create and compare the snapshots this mode takes a lot of time. The more files and folders you have on your hard-disks, the more time this takes.