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Customizing GUI Application

The main VX Search GUI application includes a side-bar allowing one to select different types of status views and customize the GUI application. The user is provided with the file search profiles view, the current profile view, the file search process status view, the system status view, the disk space monitor view, the disk activity view, the disk transfer rate view and the disk IOPS view. In order to select a different status view, click the status menu button located in the top-right corner and select the required status view type.

VX Search GUI Side Bar

The file search profiles status view displays the list of configured file search profiles and provides the ability to add, edit and delete file search profiles. In addition, the user is provided with the ability to start file search operations, export, import, copy, rename and delete file search profiles. For example, in order to add a new file search profile, click the right mouse button over the file search profiles view and select the 'Add Profile' menu item.

The current file search profile view shows the list of disks, directories and network shares configured to be processed during the file search operation. The current profile view allows one to add, edit and delete input directories, disks and network shares. For example, to add a disk or directory to the current file search profile, click the right mouse button over the current profile view and select the 'Add Input Directory' menu item.

The file search process status view displays the status of the currently performed file search operation showing the total number of processed directories, the total number of processed files, the amount of processed disk space, the number of file search results, the total size of the file search results, the file search process time, the performance of the file search operation, the number of excluded directories and the number of file search errors.

VX Search System Status Monitor

The system status view allows one to monitor the status of the computer during the file search operations and shows the current system CPU usage, the system memory usage and the amount of the free system memory. When processing huge file systems containing hundreds of millions of files, a large amount of system memory may be required and it is a good idea to monitor the status of the system memory while processing large numbers of files.

The disk space monitor status view displays the amount of the free disk space in the system disk. In addition, the status bar of the disk space monitor shows the total disk space, the used disk space and the percentage of the free disk space. When the amount of the free disk space changes, the disk space monitor displays a disk space change notification showing the amount of the changed disk space.

VX Search Disk Activity Monitor

The disk activity status view shows the total disk activity level for all disks installed in the computer. In addition, the disk activity status view shows the level of read activity for all disks installed in the computer and the level of the write activity for all disks installed in the computer. If the user needs to perform a file search operation on a production server, it may be a good idea to intentionally slow down the file search operation in order to minimize the potential impact on the production applications.

The disk transfer rate status view shows the total transfer rate in MB/Sec for all disks installed in the computer. In addition, the disk activity status view shows the disk read transfer rate in MB/Sec for all disks installed in the computer and the disk write transfer rate in MB/Sec for all disks installed in the computer.

Finally, the disk IOPS rate status view shows the total disk IOPS rate for all disks installed in the computer. In addition, the disk IOPS rate status view shows the disk read IOPS rate for all disks installed in the computer and the disk write IOPS rate for all disks installed in the computer.

VX Search News

9-Apr-2026

VX Search v18.0 redesigns the file search results dialog, adds the ability to filter file search reports by the report ID and improves the file search reports dialog. In addition, the new product version improves the JSON, CSV and XML file search reports, improves the main VX Search GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

11-Mar-2026

VX Search v17.9 adds unique file search report IDs and a hash signature of searched input directories for compliance purposes. In addition, the new product version improves the PDF and HTML file search reports, improves the performance of the file search operations, improves the VX Search Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

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