About Active SMART

What's new

Active SMART 2.3
    - Added custom notification settings for every hard disk
    - Added custom notification settings for every SMART attribute
    - Added SMART status message (SMART Info tab)
    - Added tool tip with attribute custom settings (SMART Info tab)
    - Added new button "Check SMART now" to check disks manually.
    - Added new information into the SMART status file (SMART Info tab) for SCSI disks
    - Added ability to define custom thresholds for SMART attributes
    - Added temperature support for IDE drives
    - Added temperature support for SCSI drives
    - Added new feature - saving S.M.A.R.T. alerts into the Event Log (Windows NT/2000/XP)
    - Added color marking attributes with custom settings (SMART Info tab)
    - Added Raw values in the S.M.A.R.T. status report (SMART Info tab)
    - Added "Check drives now" command to the Active SMART system tray menu
    - Added support of Windows XP themes
    - Active SMART from now uses internal SMTP client and doesn't require MAPI to send email
    - Fixed bug : threshold column and Attribute column names in the SMART status file were exchanged
    - Fixed bug with an error message "Unable to initialize ASPI for Win32" on some systems
    - Fixed bug with unwanted attempts of email delivery even if the program is disabled to send emails
    - Fixed bug with monitoring of S.M.A.R.T. attribute even if it is disabled to monitor
    - Fixed bug with IDE drives that detected twice (as IDE and SCSI) on certain controllers
    - Fixed bug with Large Fonts system settings
    - Fixed weird bug with polling time changing.
    - Changing the time interval by entering the numbers didn't work. Fixed.
    - Updated Ultra DMA modes information
    - Updated Active SMART documentation
    - Improved T.E.C. detection routine

Active SMART 2.12
    - Added new feature - you can save disk S.M.A.R.T. status as a text file
    - Added information for 14 new S.M.A.R.T. attributes
    - Fixed bug with disk manufacturer detection on some drives
    - Fixed bug with alert email sending
    - Fixed bug with wrong T.E.C. date, even if no T.E.C. state defined

Active SMART 2.1
    - Added new information for SCSI disks in Advanced Info dialog
    - Added multilingual interface
    - Added volume serial number
    - Drive capacity calculation error fixed
    - Fixed bug with a drive serial number detection on some drives
    - Fixed bug with S.M.A.R.T. status icon drawing

Active SMART 2.0 beta
    - Added support for SCSI hard disk drives and RAID arrays (beta)
    - Added S.M.A.R.T. status Quick View mode with graphical representation of S.M.A.R.T. parameters
    - Added information for 15 S.M.A.R.T. attributes (thanks to Taed Nelson)
    - Added possibility to send alert message via local network (as net send command)
    - Added computer name to the "From:" field of alert emails and messages
    - BUG: on Windows 95 systems (Error "smartvsd.vxd not found") - fixed

Active SMART 1.23
    - Added 'Location' column to the Hard Disk Drives list
    - Added information about attribute change (increasing or decreasing) into the SMART status tab
    - Added information about how much S.M.A.R.T. attribute is changed to the SMART status tab
    - BUG: After uninstalling Active SMART left an autostart link in the Startup folder - fixed
    - BUG: Active SMART is not opening while attribute is changed if Show messages option (Preferences tab) is unchecked - fixed
    - BUG: Active SMART is not opening in certain conditions - fixed
    - Cosmetic improvements

Active SMART 1.2
    - "Advanced Disk Info" feature added (Disk Info tab). It shows more then 25 parameters of the hard disk - features, supported modes, etc.
    - Sound notification feature added
    - Changed internal structure of the program. Now it uses only 200-500 KB of RAM in the idle mode (vs. 3 MB)
    - Fixed bug with wrong value of the current Ultra DMA mode (Disk Info tab)
    - Fixed timer bug. Now Active SMART checks disk S.M.A.R.T. status in the tray mode and opened state.
    - Improved T.E.C. date calculation algorithm
    - Small cosmetic changes
    - Minor bugfixes

Active SMART 1.12
    - Improved attributes changes logging
    - "Nearest T.E.C. date" string added (SMART status tab)
    - Fixed bug in the T.E.C. calculation algorithm
    - Fixed bug with Windows Me detection
    - Fixed bug with SHGetSpecialFolderPath method on some systems

Active SMART 1.1
    - New preferences were added
    - Ultra DMA mode information was added
    - T.E.C. calculation algorithm improved
    - Some bugs fixed

Active SMART 1.0
    First public version