General settings

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The General tab of the options of Bopup Observer contains the following common settings of the program.

To open the options dialog click  Options button on the toolbar or use Ctrl+O hotkey.

Common settings

• "Show always on top" — Show all windows of the program above other windows on Desktop.
  
  
• "Minimize on startup" — Hide the program on startup and display it's icon in System Tray.
  
  
• "Start on Windows startup" — Automatically run the program on Windows startup.
  
  
• "Show in Taskbar when open" — Add the messenger to Taskbar when it is open (shown) on desktop. In that case a minimize button is also added to messenger's window title bar. This option is applied on the next start of the application.
  
  
• "Enable keyboard shortcut to access the program" — This option enables selected keyboard shortcut, that is used to restore the program from System Tray.
  
  
• "Use 12-hour clock with AM/PM indicator to display time of messages" — This option shows a time of messages in US-based format using 12-hour clock by appending AM or PM indicators to the time instead of 24-hour format used by default.