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• There are some icons that are not specific to any application but keep appearing, what do they mean?
   

  • If the application file contains an icon, the Mizo - Netstats bar will extract this icon from the application and present it in the Bar.

  • This icon will appear if the application in question does not contain any icons. These are most probably applications associated with the operating system itself, but this is not a rule. You can terminate their connections or their process.

  • This icon will appear if the application associated with this port is a "System Process" protected by windows. Windows XP will not even tell what this process is. XP Netstats bar will not allow you to terminate these applications because this may make Win XP unstable.

  • This icon will appear if the application associated with this port is protected by windows. XP Netstats bar will not allow you to terminate these applications because this may make Win XP unstable.

  • This icon will appear if the connection is not associated with an application. Win XP sometime reports connections and reports their PID as "0". I guess these are not important connections, and they tend to disappear after a while. XP Netstats bar allows you to ignore these icons, you will find this setting in the "Filter" menu. You can terminate their connections.
    
     

• The window containg the information box is somewhat SLUGGISH, why?
  
      This happens when the "Resolve Host Names" function is enabled. Netstats will have to check out every IP address in the box and translate it into a Url. This take time, especially if the application has many open connections. If you don't need this feature, disable it.
  
   

• Netstats bar seems to be making some connections itself, what is it doing?
  
      Netstats Bar needs to renew the News Ticker every once in a while, to keep you posted with the latest information. This information is on the Mizotec website. It will also update the program statistics at the NedStats website. These statistics are the same statistics collected from this web page and most other web pages on the internet.
      If you have the "Resolve Host Names" function enabled, Netstats Bar will also need to open connections in order to find the Url associated with the requested IP address.
   

•  After downloading the new Whois servers list, some of the servers don't work.
  
      Not all Whois servers stick to the standards, some require  a special way of handling. Netstats Bar just sticks to the standards, it will try to connect to the server using the standard method, if this fails, try using another server. The server list is not hosted nor maintained by Mizotec, it is downloaded from a  public Whois server. I recommend you use the GeekTools Whois server, or the ARIN server. If the ARIN server has no record of this IP address, it will tell you were to find more information, like the RIPE server or the APNIC server.
   

• Known Issues
   

  •  The system tray icon may freeze when Netstats bar is busy doing something else. This is because visual basic uses a single threaded module, therefore all the application processes will have to be done in a sequence. I can do nothing about this issue.
     

  • After installing Mizo - XP Netstats bar, the application will not start. Go to the directory where the Netstats bar was installed, you will find a file named xpnsbar.exe.manifest (the file is hidden). Delete this file and everything should be OK.
    This problem has already been fixed before the release of Netstats bar 1.0, but I thought I should leave this note.

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