Customizing the Application

You can customize many parts of the Network Analyzer user interface.

To change or add keyboard shortcuts, use the Shortkeys page of the Customize dialog. You can also customize the toolbar buttons and menus there or even add additional toolbars. And you can change the look of the window tabs at the bottom of the main window in the dialog. To open the Customize dialog, use the Tools > Customize menu command or right-click in the menu or toolbars area to open a context menu with a Customize command.

You can change the address names and colors that are displayed in the packet list view. See Coloring the List View for more information.

You can modify configuration files used by the Network Analyzer to add or modify NIC vendor names and TCP ports and their descriptions. This is described in Modifying the configuration files on the next page.

If you use some capture or view filter settings frequently, you can add them to the Quick Load list on the Save and Load Filter Settings page of the Settings dialog for filters. And you can modify the Protocol Groups tree on the Protocol Type Filter page of the Settings dialog by dragging and dropping protocol entries from the protocols list on the same page.

Most of the settings are automatically saved in the application's settings file, but you can also export these settings to disk to share them with other instances of the Network Analyzer on other systems (see Saving and Loading your Settings).