Navigation

Once the KillDisk application is launched the main application's dashboard appears. From here you can use any of KillDisk's tools. This section describes main components of the application and navigation. The full functionality and features of these components are discussed in corresponding sections later.

Figure 1: KillDisk Industrial Dashboard

Where:

1 - Tabbed Windows
Here you can navigate between KillDisk tabbed windows such as Disk Explorer, Application Log etc..
2 - Command Toolbar
The command toolbar is a dynamic toolbar that allows the user to perform Tabbed Window-specific actions (depending on the context).
3 - View Selection
View Customization only available in Disk Explorer view and allows you to manipulate how the Bays are displayed in the Windowed View as well as manipulating with type of objects used to show in Disk Bays View. 4 - Windowed View
Contains the window that is currently active. By default you can see here all HDD/SSD/USB disks attached to the workstation.
5 - Output Window
Contains the log of actions KillDisk has performed.
6 - Batch Control Window
Batch Control window is an easily accessible interface to create and manipulate disk batches.
7 - Advanced Tools Tabs
These tabs allow to navigate between the different Advanced Tools.
8 - Advanced Tool Window
This window shows the data for the Advanced Tool selected. The window can be moved, popped out and re-sized.
To browse through each of these Views click on the appropriate tab. You may also open a View from the View menu:
Figure 2: Access to Views via Menu

To open any View being closed, just select it from the View menu.

The status bar at the bottom of the workspace shows the current status of the application or status of the activity in progress.