This page displays all WebSpeedReader Options. The labels are displayed in boldface on a white background. The help for each option is displayed on a yellow background. You can toggle Help for the whole page on and off by pressing the F1 key. Toggle Help on or off for any individual item by right-clicking its label. All options are saved when the form is unloaded. The form can be unloaded by clicking the T box in the upper-right corner, or by pressing Esc or Alt+F4. There is no cancel button because if you don't want a particular option, just leave it blank. Double-click any textbox or press F4 to clear the textbox and set focus to it.
  Checking this option will automatically load scheduled web pages, if you have any web pages scheduled; otherwise it will do nothing.
 

If you downloaded numerous pages in your last session, but didn't finish reading them, then checking this option will reload any unread pages from your last session, if any.

Tip - If you have Windows XP, then  you can choose Hibernation when you shut down, while WebSpeedReader is still open. When you log onto Windows again, WebSpeedReader will be open, and all of the pages that were downloaded will still be fully loaded in memory, enabling you to start reading right away. Any queued links will be downloaded as you read more pages.
  WebSpeedReader scrolls documents 1 page with each notch of the mouse wheel. Turning the mouse wheel while pressing the right-mouse button down scrolls the document by the Windows default, which is usually 3 lines at a time. Checking this option reverses the functions—just turning the mouse wheel scrolls the page 3 lines at a time; turning the wheel while pressing the right-mouse button scrolls the document a page at time.

Windows Tip - You can change the Windows default mouse wheel scrolling of 3 lines by selecting  Start  ► Control Panel  ► Mouse  ► Wheel (tab). Note that this change takes effect in all applications that uses the Windows default scrolling.
  If checked, then WebSpeedReader will maintain a history of visited websites. If unchecked, then no history will be saved, and if any history list exists, it will be deleted. Note, however, that only unique sites are saved in the history list. This is because most people use the history list to go back to a site that they didn't bookmark, and so, WebSpeedReader doesn't clutter the history list with duplicate links. The history list shows the date of the last visit, the title of the page, the URL, and if the document has them, a description and keywords. To reload the page, just click on the link, and it will download in the background. To view the history list, just select View ► History. You can also filter the history list in the sidebar.
  If you have a high-resolution screen, you have undoubtedly encountered many websites that use pixels to specify font sizes, resulting in tiny, unreadable fonts on your screen, and images are also small. To automatically increase font sizes and images for every page, select View ► Zoom Setting, and enter a zoom level. Normal size is 1. Examples of possible values of zoom setting for changing font, image and other element sizes:
  • .9 = 10% smaller
  • 1.1 = 10% larger
  • 1.25 = 25% larger
  • 2 = Twice as large.

The zoom setting will remain in effect until it is changed. WebSpeedReader retains the value between sessions.
  The current page can also be zoomed temporarily by selecting View ► Enlarge This Page, or press the + key on the numeric keypad. The default value is 40% larger, or 1.4, but you can change this here.
  You can specify the maximum number of windows that WebSpeedReader uses for downloading web pages; the default value is 50. Smaller numbers allow getting started faster reading the pages, and use less memory and bandwidth. However, if you are scanning pages rapidly, or if you are viewing images that take time to download, and little time to view them, you will want to raise this number, so that there is sufficient time for a complete download by the time you get to the window. If there are more links or scheduled pages than there are windows, then WebSpeedReader will save the links in a queue, and as you move to the next window, WebSpeedReader will download another page into the window that you have just read. This way, by the time you get back to that window, the document will be fully loaded, images and all. You can increase the number of windows for the current session by shift + clicking a link. Also, the number of windows will automatically increase for the current session, whenever you chose to keep a certain document in memory, or the link opens in a new window. When you restart WebSpeedReader, the number of windows used will go back to what you specified here. You can also increase the number of windows by specifying a different number at any time in the Options box. This value will persist between sessions.
  By doing so, you can click on any number of links in your mail program (if your mail client uses the default browser to launch links) or Windows Explorer, or any other program that uses the default browser, and if WebSpeedReader is already loaded, it will accept those links in the background, and download them while you continue to read your mail, or whatever else you're doing. No need to switch back and forth. WebSpeedReader flashes its window each time it accepts a link that you clicked, to give you feedback that WebSpeedReader has handled it. When you are all done, switch to WebSpeedReader, and the pages will be ready for your instant viewing. If WebSpeedReader is not already running when you click the first link, then that first click will launch WebSpeedReader and Windows will give it focus. If you want, just minimize WebSpeedReader to continue reading your mail. WebSpeedReader will handle all subsequent links in the background, without taking the focus away from your current program.  
You can specify part of the User-Agent string for WebSpeedReader. This string, part of the header in the browser request to a server, is recorded in web logs wherever you surf. This is a good way to advertise your website, your blog, a memorable quote, or even your name. Implore people to vote for your favorite political candidate! Example: Kilroy was here! Of course, only people who look at their web logs will see your message, but that's more people than you probably think, and besides, it costs nothing and you don't have to do anything, other than specifying the string in the text box. Some people post these log files on the Internet for others to read, so this would be another place that people can read your message. The text is limited to 100 characters; when you reach the limit, you won't be able to type any more characters, so there is no need to count them.