Setting up

• Download the software.
  

• Run through the installation.
• Immediately on finishing the installation, ClockBlocker will retreat down in to your system-tray.

• Double-Click on the tray icon to open the settings dialog, or right click and select settings.

• Once the settings dialog is open, move over to the "Rules" tab.
• You will notice that here there are two rules by default.  These are special-rules that define the default behaviors of the program in the absense of user defined exceptions.

Rules in this page are evaluated in a top-down order.  The first rule to match stops evaluation of further rules (you might think of this like the firewall config page on a router).  In this case the default (or catch-all) rule is to downclock, which is probably what's happening right now for you (no impact of running ClockBlocker).  If however, we were to run a fullscreen application, then the above rule ("FULLSCREEN_PROGRAM") would take priority and we would block downclocking (lock the card at high clock speeds).  In otherwords, right now we could fire up a game and ClockBlocker would already do something..  Yet it's also important to note that ClockBlocker will not distinguish between any special cases of fullscreen applications, and will also block downclocking for web-browsers.

-Fortunately this is easy to fix with the profile system, and we'll do that next as part of this example.  You can also try clicking fullscreen on a YouTube video or such for testing sake.

-For this guide I'll be assuming that you're running Firefox.  You'll need to adjust accordingly for whatever browser that you use.

• Click on the green "Add" button.  This will bring up a new popup window to define a rule.

• The first thing to notice is that we have no program defined, so we need to fill that in with our web-browser's executable.
• We can either type in "Firefox.exe" (without the quotes), or we can use any of those three buttons below.

-I am going to suggest that as your web-browser is already open to this guide, that it would be easiest to simply use "Pick Window" to pick your web-browser window.  Make sure that the browser is not minimized to the taskbar and then click on that button.  Clicking the button will take a snapshot of all visible (not hidden, not minimized, visible on your screens) windows.

• Ah, there's our browser running under Sandboxie.  (Once you've found your web-browser in the list, go ahead and double click on it, or click [to highlight it], and then click "Select")

• ClockBlocker was able in this case to read both the full path of the program and also just its filename.  In some cases ClockBlocker may not be able to get the full path of a process due to rights limitations or otherwise.  (since we can see both... I suggest to pick the full path, as this won't falsely flag on another process named Firefox.exe)

• Next, we're going to want to set the action type for this rule to "Downclock if in the foreground".

-This newly added rule will automatically be moved to the top of the list as an exception for our defaults.  Default rules always are evaluated last.

• You should have something like this by now for your rule, so go ahead and click "OK".

• "OK" that next prompt window, and it looks like we're all set here.

-If we have firefox in the foreground our newly added rule will be the one in effect, which means we can now safely run fullscreen YouTube videos without our card clocking up unnecessarily.

You're done!  That concludes this tutorial.  You do not have to do anything special to save your settings.

Special Notes:

• Most of the program is documented from within, with tooltip descriptions.  This tutorial is just to get you started.

• If you're wondering where your config files were saved, you can open the "Log Viewer" to see that.

The log location will be a folder such as: C:\Users\{username}\Documents\ComroeStudios\ClockBlocker\

-Please do not copy profile files in or out without closing the program first!  It will not re-read the config files from disk until the next start.

• Most errors and verbos written in the log viewer can be ignored, as they are mainly for troubleshooting (by me) in the case of any reports.
• The current ClockBlocker status can be seen from the system tray icon.

-If the icon is "yellow", blocking is disabled.  If the icon is "red", then one of your behavior rules has enabled blocking.