The Workstation Message Window shows messages specific to the workstation. For the most part, these include Application Starts and Stops. It also includes any messages you may have specified for your Rules when they change states. The Date and Time fields are in the format they are, so they will sort properly whether the fields are Character or Numeric. The Message is sometimes a file path, depending upon the message type.
Instance is the instance of a certain application.
The menu has just loaded a ProgMan GRP file Network Messages The Network Message Window shows messages specific to the network. Mountain Menus keeps track of all the servers it can find on the network. Within each file server, the menu tracks all volumes, users, groups, and print queues. The menu polls these objects regularly. If anything has changed since the last poll, You get a Network Message.