Setting up SecureCRT - Change Default Appearance + Auto-create Log File On Connect

This is just a collection of convenient settings I've found elsewhere on the Internet. SecureCRT is a nice little piece of software to have in sitting on your laptop to connect to console/Telnet/SSH sessions you frequent/etc. Some of the settings I'd prefer to change from the default, mainly around appearance and with it not automatically creating a log file on connect.

Change Default Appearance
To change the default colour theme do the following:

1. Go to Options > Global Options
2. Under General > Default Session on left
3. Click Edit Default Settings
4. Navigate to Appearance in left pane
5. Select the desired Color Theme in the drop down box

Turn on Auto-Create Log with Automatic Log File Name

To setup SecureCRT to log everything (trust me, it's useful from time to time)... pretty much follow the first 3 steps above then:

1. Navigate to Log File in left pane
2. Under the Log File Name entry box, type in the path and name of the log file to use. For me I said the following: "C:\Console Logs\%Y-%M-%D.%h:%m - %H -- %S.txt"

The % variables are all listed in the help file as follows:

• %H - hostname
• %S - session name
• %Y - four-digit year
• %M - two-digit month
• %D - two-digit day of the month
• %h - two-digit hour
• %m - two-digit minute
• %s - two-digit seconds
• %t - three-digit milliseconds
• %% - percent (%)
• %envvar% - environment variable

Thanks for reading. Hope it helps.