Click the program icon to launch the Bux Panel.
When you do it for the first time you enter the User Data & Options dialog. Insert your first and last name, login and email address (all these parameters must correspond to those you use for PTC sites registration).
This dialog also contains the check box for weekly automatic updates. If it is checked (default), Bux Panel enquires once a week for a presence of a new Bux Panel version and/or for changes in the Bux Panel built-in PTC Sites data. If new files are available, you will be prompted to update the software, Bux Panel will be closed, new version installed and then launched. If you desire, you may uncheck the box, thus switching off the automatic updates option. Alternatively, you may check for updates and install them manually by clicking the button.
Click Save and Bux Panel will be displayed. The User Data & Options section will contain your data you just entered: Start adding your PTC sites by clicking the button. The Add New Site dialog is displayed:
The left part of the dialog contains banners of the Bux Panel predefined PTC sites. The right part is an Internet browser.
Select the sites you want to add or even the sites (images) and then click the button. The sites thumbshots will be added to the main Bux Panel window.
Before adding a site you may click the link on the site's label and the site will be opened in the web browser on the right side.
This Browser can be used for adding any internet site, not only from the Predefined PTC sites list, and even not a PTC site, as follows:

1. Copy or type the site address in the Address window.
2. Click the button. The site will be opened in the Web Browser window and the site name will appear in the Site name window.
3. Select the PTC site currency unit ($ or €) and click the button (in the dialog). Besides the above dialog, new PTC sites could be added directly, on the fly, from the any part of the Bux Panel Duplex View Ads - Ad window (see below).

After adding PTC sites your application window will look like this:

The application window consists of small PTC sites’ thumbshots. Each thumbshot has a Start button, which launches the duplex View Ads/Ad window. After this the Start button changes its text and color, becoming the Show button. Consequently, by the button view you may know if a particular PTC site has been launched.
The duplex View Ads/Ad window is split into the 2 windows: the View Ads left window, and the Ad right window.
Obviously, when you are selecting ads, the left window is bigger than right. When you selected an ad and clicked it, the right window is automatically expanded: If the View Ads or Ad window is shrunk, you may expand it by clicking the Expand button. The Ad window also contains the Cancel button. When you click it, the Ad window is shrunk (if it was expanded), the View Ads window is expanded correspondingly and the Ad browser is cleared. Some PTC sites require this procedure to move on to the next Ad.
You may adjust the split proportions (by moving the corresponding trackbar or by dragging the splitter) separately for the View Ads and Ad window. You may save your preferred splitting proportions separately for the View Ads and Ad window by clicking the button. Thus, these setting will be used for all the PTC sites. and for future PTC sessions.
By clicking the button you restore the last saved splitter position.
You may also control an initial size and appearance of the duplex View Ads/Ad window. Resize it to your desired size and then click the Save Size button at the top-right. The selected size will be used for ALL the PTC sites. You do not have to adjust the window position – it always will be screen-centered. If you prefer having a maximized window at the start, maximize it (by the Windows maximize button) and then click the Save Size button.
You may hide the Split and Positions panel by clicking the Expand/ Collapse Panel button . Thus you make the most of the screen space for your browser. Then, if needed, you may show these options by clicking again the same button.
To quickly return to the main panel click the Show Panel button at the top left corner.

When you earned money and it is updated in the View Ads window, the balance is automatically updated in the thumbshot Balance window; an amount you just earned will be added to that you have earned before and displayed in the site’s thumbshot on the green background.
In case you have visited a PTC site today and earned something, the blue checkmark is displayed at the upper right corner of the site's thumbshot.
The total sum (from all PTC sites) that you earned today will be updated and displayed at the top of the Bux Panel. Also the Total Balance of all the sites will be shown:

The Bux Panel keeps track of the balance in each your PTC site. You may exit the program and then run it again - the most recent update of your balance is retained. Obviously, at the very first run of the program all the balance windows are empty. As you work, they are filled in with a site's balance. On most PTC sites after logging in, your balance is displayed and reflected on the Bux Panel. On a few sites to have your balance updated you should go to the "Account" page.
At the middle bottom of a site thumbshot you may find the Info button. When it is clicked, the Site Info dialog is displayed:

This dialog contains information about the site and provides an opportunity to modify the site settings, as follows:

• Site Name: The site name is formed automatically, basing on the address of the site. Site name is the address part between www and the domain suffix. For example, for www.microsoft.com the site name will be Microsoft. You cannot edit this field.
• Login Page: Login page address of your PTC website or any address of a non-PTC page. You should include http:// and www in the address.
• Site currency: You should select the currency unit, which is used by the site to make payments. In most cases it is a Dollar, but some sites prefer the Euro.
• Site login name: You should fill in your login name, the same you use to enter the PTC site. For a non-PTC site this field could be blank. Note: The automatic or semi-automatic login option works only for the Bux Panel Sites List. Therefore, if your PTC site isn’t in this list you may leave the field blank or fill it in and use as copy-paste while logging in.
• Site password: You should fill in your PTC site password. You may click the Show check box to view it.
  Regarding non-PTC sites, see the previous Note.
• Site thumbshots displaying: There are the two ways of displaying the sites in their thumbshots:
  1. They can be displayed as small Internet browsers, where sites are navigating.
  2. They can be displayed as motionless images, which represent screenshots of sites' home pages.
  Although the 1st option looks more attractable, we advise using the 2nd one (default). Thus, you are saving system resources and increasing the CPU performance.
• Site thumbshots image updating: During the very first run or the program or the next run after adding a site(s) the sites thumbshots images are automatically created. If by some reason (e.g. site was unavailable during automatic image creation) you want to update the image, follow these steps:
  1. Navigate to the site, by clicking in the site’s thumbshot the Go button. The button will change its image to “stop” while other buttons will become invisible, so as not to obscure the thumbshot browser and its horizontal scrollbar.
  2. Make sure that the Internet page is fully loaded.
  3. If needed, use the small browser scrollbars to select the desired place of the page you want to be an image (scrollbars will not be visible in it).
  4. Click the Stop button. It restores the thumbshot buttons and hides the scrollbars of the small browser.
  5. Open the Site Info dialog and click the Update Image button.

At any moment you may click the help button to get an explanation on Site Info dialog options.
If you have made changes and want to save them, click the Save button, or the Cancel button otherwise.
The button on the site's thumbshot is intended for removing the PTC site that you don’t need anymore.

Recently we introduced a new powerful feature: Bux Panel Notes. Each PTC thumbshot contains a note icon: By clicking it you open the Bux Panel Note of this site, where you can record your own remarks. Thus you keep track of activity on each PTC site. The Note has extensive text formatting options. It is saved to the RTF (Rich Text Format) file, which is read automatically when you click the corresponding note icon. Here is an example of the Bux Panel Note:


If you have any questions click the button. You will be directed to the Bux Panel website, please send us a request and we will be happy to help you.

Note: For the program to function properly and you could use all of its features you must have Administrator privileges in your PC user account.