Global vs. User-Specific Settings

AugerScan lets you define settings (hardware properties, multiplier properties, and ion/electron gun properties) that are global, that is, they are applied to all acquisition types for each acquisition technique. You define these settings using the commands in the System menu. Each command displays a dialog box in which you define the settings for each acquisition technique. Before you acquire data, verify that the settings are correct.

User-specific settings are the settings provided by the Options command in the View menu. These settings are associated with the user who is logged onto Windows. (To use this features in Windows, select the Passwords icon in the Windows Control Panel. Select the User Profiles tab in the Password Properties dialog box. Change the settings there as appropriate.) You may control the fonts and the graphing options for your personal AugerScan sessions. Click here for more information about fonts ; click here for more information about graphs .

Note: Your global gun settings may change for various reasons. Therefore, data that you acquired in the past may have used different gun settings than the currently-defined global gun settings. However, you may change the gun settings associated with an existing acquisition by selecting the Settings command from the Acquisition menu and then clicking on the Edit Gun Settings button to associate the correct settings with the acquisition data.