Overview
What is NikNak?
NikNak : A graphical interface that shows information about your computer.
In depth
A closer look at NikNak
NikNak is a bar usually docked with autohide enabled that gives access to useful information quickly as well as giving quick access to starting favorite programs without having icons all over your desktop.If you have NikNak set to be a autohiding docked bar and have "Show windowcontents while dragging" enabled in Windows "Display Properties" NikNak willsmoothly appear and disappear.To change or delete a "QuickStart" button right-click over it.To create a "QuickStart" button to special desktop icons such as My Computer you need to create a shortcut first and drag this onto NikNak, you can then delete the shortcut you created.If the program is docked on the left or right screen edge or is undocked with avertical layout and you want to change the width of the NikNak display then youneed to drag the inner-most edge to get the size you want.The size is fixed when NikNak is docked on the top or bottom screen edge.To close a "docked" window right-click on either the window or the System Trayicon and select "Exit Program".To see what the height of the graph is click on it or the number next to it, thenumber will show the height for several seconds. If you do not have "Showaverage on the numeric indicators" selected and you click again the number willshow the average, over the last minute, for several seconds.If you have NikNak docked but don't want NikNak on the top of all programs you can temporarily disable this by selecting "Not on Top when Docked". This will stay this way until you either restart NikNak, access the NikNak right-clickmenu or double click on the System Tray icon. You can check the status of thisby moving the mouse over the System Tray icon. An example of when you may want to use this is playing a game that uses the full screen.You can display a small pop-up calendar via the right-click menu. If you clickon a date you will be told how many days until that date.You can display a clock via the right-click menu that takes up the screenworkspace area, right-clicking on it gives several options, these options aresaved when NikNak is closed.Normally the clock can be closed by clicking on itbut if you want to display the clock for a while and do not want to accidentlyclose it you can select the option to only allow it to be closed via its right-click menu.You need to have NetNak set up on the computer that has the modem, NetNak then needs have the "Modem Sharing" settings set up. Both NetNak and NikNak need to have the same version of "NetNak data link" (on the "Sharing" page of NetNak's settings and on the NetNak page of NikNak's settings).Here are some key features of "NikNak":?? Show the time, date, day of the week simply.?? Show computer processor usage.?? Show memory usage.?? Show drive space free or in use simply?? Show internet usage (works with modems, cable modems, DSL, ADSL etc) or modem usage (modem usage display is available on a network that shares a modem and that has NetNak monitoring it).?? Gives you easily setup "QuickStart" buttons to start your favorite programs?? quickly.?? Gives easy access to a calendar.?? Gives easy access to a large clock.Limitations:?? 30 days trial.
Verdict
Should you download NikNak?
NikNak runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Time-limited Trial
license
— the installer is 622 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
System.
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At a glance
NikNak specifications
- Publisher
-
Nakware
- Last updated
- Nov 24, 2023
- License
- Time-limited Trial
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- File size
- 622 KB
- Price
- Free
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- 832
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