The Preferences page of the Options window (accessible from the Tools, Options menu item) contains settings related to the display of the Toolbar menu.
Accessible via Tools->Options->Preferences
Toolbar
Show toolbar
User can choose if the toolbar will be displayed or not. By default, this option is checked.
Show toolbar button hint
If checked a hint will be displayed when hovering over a toolbar button with the mouse. By default this option is checked.
Show toolbar button captions
If checked the toolbar buttons will display their caption. Uncheck if you need more space in the main window. You can use the button hints in this case. By default this option is checked.
Align caption to the right
If checked the toolbar buttons will have their caption displayed on the right of the icons, if not they will be shown below the icons. This option is only valid if the Show toolbar button captions option is checked. By default this option is not checked.
Toolbar icon size
You may use this drop down list to select the size of the toolbar buttons. Possible choices are: Small, Medium and Large. By default this option is set to Small.
Views
Default view
The selected view will be assigned as default to the Views button from the application toolbar.
The possible views are: Brief, Explore, Backup, Statistics and Summary.
Show explorer icons
If checked a small icon is shown for each file in the Explore view. The icon is the standard icon associated with the type of the file. You will see the same icons as in Windows Explorer. If the Explore view contains a large number of files, you can uncheck this option to show files faster. By default this option is checked.
Hide empty folders on expand all
If checked the folders that do not show any file in the Explore view will be automatically hidden when pressing the Expand All button. By default this option is not checked.
Show context menu
If checked it will display the context menu when right clicking on a file or folder in the main window's Explore view or the Sources page of the Backup Properties and New Backup Wizard windows. By default this option is checked.
Job list
Background color
Press the (...) button if you want change the background color of the main window's Backup List and the button list of the Backup Properties window.
View list as
Choose the listing mode for the backup jobs and groups in the Backup List. The possible choices are: Tree, Icons and List.
Sort backup jobs alphabetically in a group
If checked the backup jobs are sorted alphabetically in each backup group. By default this option is not checked.
Measurement unit
Auto
If checked the file sizes are shown like in Windows Explorer. By default this option is checked.
Custom
If checked you can see all file sizes in the same unit. You can set the desired unit from the drop down list. Possible choices are: Bytes, KB (kilobytes), MB (megabytes) or GB (gigabytes). Be advised that if you select GB as a unit, for files under 10MB the size will be shown as 0GB. By default this option is not checked.
Other
NTFS daylight saving correction
The Windows NT File System (NTFS) reports wrong file times after the clock changes according to daylight saving time rules. As a consequence, the program sees these files as changed and backs them up. When you check this option these files will not be reported as modified. By default this option is checked.
Show Task Scheduler error message
If checked Backup4all will show an error message when a scheduled backup has errors. This requires user intervention for the backup to continue. By default this option is checked.
Allow blank passwords when scheduling
If checked this option will enable usage of blank passwords in your Windows system and in Windows Task Scheduler.
When checking this option you may receive a message from you antivirus, letting you know there is a suspicious activity in Backup4all.exe that might pose a security risk. You don't have to worry, you can press OK because Backup4all just wants to modify a registry entry to allow blank passwords.
Blank passwords are disabled in Windows by default as a security measure. Instead of enabling this option we recommend to set a password for each Windows user account. By default this option is not checked.
If you uncheck this option at a later time, you will be informed that for existing scheduled backups you'll need to provide an username/password in order to be able to run them.
Warn when insecure passwords are used
If checked Backup4all will display a warning window when you enter passwords for zip encryption that contain less than 8 characters.
Show hidden files in open dialogs
If checked files marked as hidden will be displayed in Open dialogs. This is very useful if you want to add hidden files to your backup sources. By default this option is checked.
Use New Backup Wizard to create backup jobs
If checked, when pressing the File->New Backup button, the New Backup Wizard will be open.
If unchecked, the Backup Properties will be used to create the new job.