                               TPMonitor ReadMe File

                         (C) Copyright 2008 TraceMouse(TM).

    Catalog:
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    1. License/Disclaimer
    2. What is TPMonitor
    3. Supported models
    4. Install/Uninstall
    5. About Log
    6. About Gadget
    7. Upgrade History
    8. About Author
    9. Faqs

    1. License / Disclaimer
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    This software is a free software, belongs to the author. You can freely use and distribute, But deletion of writers rights information is not permitted and you cannot make commercial use of it without writers permission.
    
    To read Thinkpad sensors this software use winIo.dll, developed by Yariv Kaplan who owns the copyright of winio.dll. For more information about winio.dll please visit http://www.internals.com. This software used  trademarks: IBM trademarks are the property of IBM company, ThinkPad / Lenovo trademarks are the property of Lenovo company, Miscrosoft / Windows trademarks are the property of Microsoft Corp. All other trademarks are the property of the ownership of the trademarks.
    
    This software is developped and tested with Thinkpad T61p, all functions and modules have been tested in detail. Even though this procedure has only to read the sensor and does not rewrite the data in the sensor, but the author is not liable for any loss caused by.
    
    Once you use this software means that you fully agree with all of the above agreement.


    2. What is TPMonitor
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    TPMonitor called ThinkPad Monitor, is a tool to monitor the temperature of Thinkpad. By TPMonitor, you can learn the temperature of the various parts of Thinkpad, and to facilitate the safer use of your ThinkPad.

    TPMonitor Provides log feature that records the change of the temperature of all sensors At consecutive time, for more information please see Section 5: About Log.
    
    TPMonitor also provides support for the Vista Sidebar, and the release package attachs to a free Gadget, for more information see Section 6: About Gadget.

    TPMonitor does not include the fan control function, because there is a certain degree of risk for the fan control, and the authors consider it will be more appropriate to control the fan by the BIOS, as BIOS is prepared by professional engineers who understand ThinkPad better.
    

    3. Supported models
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    TPMonitor is known to support the following models
    ThinkPad A31,R50/R50p,R51/R51e,R52,R60/R60e,Z60t/Z60m,Z61m/Z61p,T22,T23,T30,T40,T41/T41p,T42/T42p,T43/T43p,T60/T60p,T61/T61p,T400,T500,W500,W700,X30,X31,X40,X41/X41T,X60/X60s,X61/X61s,X200/X200s,X300,X301

    For some older ThinkPad models (600E, 600X, 770E, 770X), are used different control chip, TPMonitor can not support


    4. Install/Uninstall
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    TPMonitor published using zip, simply extract "TPMonitor.zip" to any directory and then directly run "TPMonitor.exe".

    As TPMonitor is based on C#, .NET Framework installation is required to run, it is recommended to install the latest version of the .NET Framework. Windows Vista system can be directly run because the system has been built .NET Framework. (Using the Vista operating system, if not turn off User Account Control(UAC), request the administrator mode to run this program.)
    
    If you need to use the Gadget provided by TPMonitor, double-click "TPMonitor.gadget" under the folder TPMonitor

    TPMonitor's very easy to uninstall, if it is decided to no longer use TPMonitor, it is ok to directly delete the folder after exited from the program. If you enabled "Launch with the system startup", please disable it before  the deletion.

    However, TPMonitor is not an entirely green software, process information and Sidebar data will be written into the registry, if you worry about the trash left in the registry, please double-click "Uninstall.reg" to delete the registry information, or to use regedit.exe to manually delete the following registry subkeys
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TraceMouse\TPMonitor\VistaSidebar


    5. About Log
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    TPMonitor log records the sensors's temperature, you can always save the log to a file.

    Log is saved by CSV format, can directly open using the Execl, if you are familiar with Excel, it can be carried out to achieve the advanced chart through the post-processing.

    
    6. About Gadget
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    TPMonitor provides support for Vista Sidebar, and released with a free Gadget. Anyone can write the Gadget by himself, and hope him not hesitate to share his works with others.

    Similar to Everest Ultimate, TPMonitor writes the data into the registry, then Gadget can read the data from the registry. The registry path is as follows
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TraceMouse\TPMonitor\VistaSidebar
    

    7. Upgrade History
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    Please refer to UpgradeLog.txt.


    8. About Author
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    Hi, there! I am TraceMouseand I am a PC fan. This is my first C# program; I was writing it as learning from the internet. Thanks to the great Google and Msdn, I finally finished this work, which is tiny but not simple.
    
    If you have any suggestion, please email tracemouse@163.com to discuss it with me.

    Thanks:
      1). Yariv Kaplan, the author of Winio.dll
      2). The thinker who prepared the sketch map of Thinkpad sensors
          http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Talk:ACPI_fan_control_script
      3). The author of TPFanControl
      4). All the thinkers who give the helps & suggestions Thinker

    
    9. Faqs
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    Please refer to Faq.txt.   

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    THE END
    2008.09.22
    TraceMouse