Copyright: ©1996-97 by Carsten Stratz - HELP v2.11.000
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ShutDown NOW!© - Version 2.1

©1996-97 by Carsten Stratz

One 32-Bit Application ...

for Windows NT™ (v3.5x v4.0) ...	    and Windows® 95 ...

(Please click on the highlighted text or the pictures, to show the correspondent paragraph! - Press 'F1' at any time when working with ShutDown NOW!©'s main window or Settings Notebook, to show a context-sensitive help page.)

First Contact:

About ShutDown NOW!

... about the idea, requirements, features, etc. ...

ShutDown NOW!© Scenarios

... how the shutdown will be performed ...

How You Start (Installation/Uninstall)

... the fast and the complete installation or uninstall in one minute ...

Known Problems  FAQ

... a collection of horror ...

Keyboard Functions

... hidden secrets of ShutDown NOW!© ...

All about Buttons:

The ShutDown NOW!© Button

... what will happen, if you press the big button ...

The Action-DropDownListBox

... changing the way shutting down ...

The Status Bar

... displayed below ...

The Settings-Button

... take a seat in the directors chair ...

The Move-to-Tray Button

... where is the window? ...

The (I)nformation Button

... all you wanted to know, but never dared to ask ...

The Pause Button

... as time goes by ...

The Stop Button

... how to rescue the system five seconds before midnight ...

The Progress Bar

... going from left to right ...

Commandline / Shortcut Parameters

... how to 'type' a shutdown ...

et cetera ...

Shareware Registration

... how you can reach me, licenses, prices, what you'll get in return ...

Where to find NEW Versions!

... a picture of me, my address and the locations where to find the latest version ...

Version History of ShutDown NOW!©

... the obligate "What's New" ...

ShutDown NOW!©  Shareware Software License

... all you have to agree to, if you use ShutDown NOW!© shareware version ...

TradeMarks

... who is who and what belongs to whom ...


About ShutDown NOW!

Requirements:

Minimum:

-	486 DX-50 Industry-Standard PC with enough memory for Windows® 95 or Windows NT™.

-	Windows® 95 or/and Windows NT™ v3.5x or v4.0. - Not supported is Win32s on Windows® v3.1x and lower.

-	Administrator account or other with shutdown privileges on networks. (No network required!)

-	1 MB free swap-space on the Windows® swap partition  and 2 MB free space on the drive that holds ShutDown NOW!© (2-3 MB for the installation).

Recommended:

-	P133 CPU, >= 32 MB RAM (I use 128 MB)

-	Fast graphic card (I use a Matrox Millennium, 4MB, 220 MHz RAMDAC) for animations

-	Windows® 95 and/or Windows NT™ v4.0

-	Administrator account or other with shutdown privileges on networks. (No network required!)

-	50 MB free swap-space on the Windows® swap partition  and 10 MB free space on the drive that holds ShutDown NOW!©.

One word to ShutDown NOW!©'s documentation:

Please let me say one word to this and all other documentation of ShutDown NOW!©:

ShutDown NOW!© comes from a German author - and all he knows about the English language comes from seven years English in school. - That was a long time ago ... and my dictionary has a fixed place on my desk since ShutDown NOW!© first came out.

I have to write everything without any help from other people and I am more familiar with PASCAL then with the English language.

So please, be lenient with me ...

Features /  Idea:

The Features:

If you think it's too much trouble to shut down Windows® 95, Windows® NT v4.0 or v3.5x  the default way, then check out ShutDown NOW!© (short: SHDN). This 32-bit utility makes it easier -- and quicker -- to get out of Windows® safely. It can be minimized to an animated icon in the system tray, so a double-click exits the operating system. A multitude of options are provided, such as disabling the startup and shutdown logos or running an application before closing. There are even two timers that will let you exit Windows® at a specific time (hh:mm:ss) or after a time specified in seconds.

All options are now supported by commandline parameters and many other enhancements were made since the last version:

The windows of ShutDown NOW!© are now animated and will 'fly' across the screen, if the user likes that and if he lets this setting enabled.

The user can now shutdown to MS-DOS® v7.0 from within Windows® 95. ShutDown NOW!© uses a small PIF (Program-Information-File) called SHDNDOS.PIF, that can be changed to fit the users AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, - or replaced by other prefabricated PIF files (in this case, you have only to change the name to SHDNDOS.PIF) that came with a game for instance, - or changed for a MS-DOS® window session, instead of shutting down to MS-DOS®.

New is also the "Ask me always how ..." shutdown option, that displays the "ShutDown HOW?" window with an overview of all possible shutdown options.  This lets the user decide what he wants to do, if he is unsure or often needs different shutdown scenarios. He also can abort this function, if he does not like to shut down, or wants to restart the timer.

If you have wondered about the "WARNING: You have started another application ..." message box, appearing after you have started a program with ShutDown NOW!© v1.x, you can now disable this safety question and instead set a delay in milliseconds between the start of the application and the shutdown.

As small extras, I added the features of my "SystemSettings2Menu" program to ShutDown NOW!© v2.0, that copies the system settings folder (normally placed under Start | Settings in the Windows® 95 or Windows NT™ v4.0 Start Menu ... and also known as "Control Panel" ...) one level higher into the Start Menu, - and further more an option to set the speed of the animated system tray icon of ShutDown NOW!©. Its animation-sets can now contain up to 100 icons for smoother or longer animations.  I added two small examples  besides the default icons - with a different number of icons to ShutDown NOW!©'s archive.  You are free and asked to draw you own icon sets and publish them.

As I said, ShutDown NOW!© supports now all important shutdown options from the commandline, or if it is started from a shortcut (*.LNK file).  All these options and their syntax can be reviewed, if you start ShutDown NOW!© with the "/?" , "/HELP", or "/H" parameter.  Important to know is, that the options "/NOMESSAGE"  to suppress application-start-warnings and "/RUN:<app>+<par>" are overwriting the settings you have made in the Settings-Notebook of ShutDown NOW!©. An effect of this is, that you are able to start an application also before the ShutDown NOW!© window appears (or the tray-icon)  and if you have chosen to start an application before shutdown in the Settings-Notebook, this application will be started additionally to that one, you have specified with the commandline/shortcut parameter, before you leave the system!

All new parameters work in combination with others. Therefore there are much more possibilities to configure ShutDown NOW!© for your needs.

You can use ShutDown NOW!© for up to 14 days with no shareware nag screens.

The Idea:

I think that it is far too much trouble to click on "Start" then on "Shutdown" and then on "OK" to shutdown (or relog to) an operating system.  It is saver indeed, but a detour and not very comfortable if you need an automatically reboot at a specific time (BBS systems, network servers, etc.), or if you want to schedule a program before shutdown.

For me, some of my harddisks did not respond quick enough if I enabled the power-off mode with Adaptec's EZ-SCSI, and Windows® hanged on shutdown instead of rebooting my system. Therefore I implemented an initialization of all HD's which I can enable or disable, if it is needed or not.

Another feature that I realized in my freeware program "SysSettings2Menu" (long name, indeed), is now in ShutDown NOW!© too: You can move the system settings one level higher in the menu so you can easily access them from the first level of the Windows® Start Menu (which cannot be done by copying the system settings folder, because it is not visible on the harddisk).

Last but not least, Windows® 95th boot- and shutdown screens can be enabled or disabled each by itself. That is supported by many applications now, but not in a small, handy program without the need of thinking: "Which was the tool, that supported this feature? - And how did it work? ...”.

ShutDown NOW!© is programmed with Borland Delphi® v2.0 (32-Bit language).  The 'hottest' of Borland's programming languages ever developed! (I have ordered Version 3.0 last week from Borland and I hope that it will come within this week!)


ShutDown Scenarios

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Try the features and settings with "Message Box (for testing)" or "Ask me always how ...", not first with one of the shutdown events! - Otherwise you will be thrown out of the system, if you want to get familiar with the program's features.

You have the choice between several scenarios:

-	ShutDown	a normal shutdown

-	ShutDown	and Reboot	reboots after normal shutdown

-	LogOFF	and LogON again	only log off the current desktop and log on again with a

(different) name/password

-	ShutDown	force closing	as in 1., but forces all running applications to close - very

fast! - and save as well

-	Reboot	force closing	as in 2. and 4.

-	LogOFF/ON	force closing	as in 3. and 4.

-	PowerOFF	that's a feature, only supported by some (newer) systems

BIOS (and not always as it should work). Try to test it:

it works  or not ...

-	Message Box (for testing)	this function is for testing the settings, if you are not an

experienced user of ShutDown NOW!

-	Ask me always how...	this function opens a window in which the user gets an

overview of all shutdown options. The last selection will be

remembered and the shutdown can be aborted too.

WinNT:

-	WinNT DOS window session	if selected to shut down this way under Windows NT™,

a MS-DOS window will be opened.  This can be used for

starting a commandline session from the tray-icon by

double-click on it  or to start a modified SHDNDOS.PIF for

an application.

Win95:

-	ShutDown to MS-DOS (Win95)	if selected to shut down this way under Windows® 95, the

standard SHDNDOS.PIF, coming with ShutDown NOW!©, is

configured to close Win95 and to call a MS-DOS v7.0 full

screen (compatibility-mode) session, e.g. for games, with

the standard CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.

All these additional options are supported:

-	Shutdown in up to 10 ways, excluding/including the following additional options:

-	Many commandline/shortcut options to support most of ShutDown NOW!©'s options either from the commandline or as parameters of a shortcut to SHDN.EXE.

-	Commandline: shutdown with safety question optional. ( /SAVE )

-	A Settings-Notebook to easily change all settings of the commands, timers, watchdogs and system-controls.

-	Shutdown from the system tray icon with a double-click.  Or:

-	Shutdown from the ShutDown NOW!© button on the main window.  Or:

-	Shutdown from the context menu of the tray icon.  Or:

-	Shutdown from a window, displaying all shutdown options together. (Lets you optionally continue or abort the shutdown.)

-	Full keyboard control of all options and settings on ShutDown NOW!©'s main window and Settings-Notebook. (E.g. the keys 1-0 changes the shutdown-options combo listbox selection.)

-	Configure a PIF (Program-Information-File) for shutting down to MS-DOS v7.0 (Win95), open a commandline window / full-screen session, or run a MS-DOS application either under Windows® (95/NT™) or MS-DOS v7.0 (Win95).

-	Display the system tray icon animated or single. (Up to 100 icons/animation are dynamically supported.  That means, it takes only the amount of memory, that is captured by the number of the existing icons. (< 1Kb or < 3Kb per icon, depending on the number of used colors))

-	Change the speed of the animated tray icon, fitting to your computers speed and/or the kind of animation.

-	Always start with centered ShutDown NOW!© windows.

-	Disable/enable hints for (all) buttons, sliders, checkboxes, etc. of the ShutDown NOW!© main window and settings-dialog.

-	Set a countdown timer for 24 hours.  Or:

-	Set a countdown timer from 1 second to ~ 115 days (in sec.).

-	Start countdown as soon as ShutDown NOW!© starts / Windows® starts (if "Always start in System Tray" is enabled)

-	Start a program, before you really shut down. (E.g. if you want to look at your schedule before going to bed!?) However, this can start all files that are associated with an application (e.g. *.DOC, *.ZIP, *.TXT, ... .??? and 100 more) and the applications itself (.EXE, *.COM, *.BAT, *.PIF).

-	Enable- or disable a warning message, if you have started another application.

-	Specify a delay value of 0 up to 65535 milliseconds, if you run a program shortly before shutdown without warning message, to let the system wait until it really shuts down.

-	Start a program before ShutDown NOW!© appears on the screen. (Commandline/Shortcut option: /run:<application>+<parameters>)

-	Initialize all (local) HD's before shutting down. (That's for the HD-Power OFF-feature of some SCSI/E-IDE adapters, which is sometimes not fast enough to spin up the drives on shutdown! (Or some drives are not fast enough and are 'hanging' ...))

-	Power OFF feature. If supported by your BIOS, it turns the computer into a waiting state.

This does not work always, although your BIOS may have an option for that, because some Basic-Input/Output-Systems (BIOS) are not enabling this the right way depending on the chipset and the processor.

-	Copy the system settings folder one level up into the root of the Start Menu.

-	Animated ShutDown NOW!© windows and page controls.

-	Enable or disable window-animation for ShutDown NOW!©'s windows.

-	Windows® 95 only: Enable or disable boot- and shutdown screens.


How You Start
How You Start (Installation/Uninstall)

Manual Installation:

First: 	You do not need to remove previous installed files of an older ShutDown NOW!© installation. Maybe you want to delete the shortcuts of the old version files. - You can simply rename them instead (e.g. "ShutDown NOW!© v2.02.lnk" to " ShutDown NOW!© v2.1.lnk") and copy all new ShutDown NOW!© files into the same physical folder on your harddrive partition, that you have chosen for the last installation.

General: 	Don't rename SHDN.EXE (upper- and lower cases are allowed)!

-	Copy:

 	the icons: *.ico files (of your favorite animation),

SHDNDOS.PIF,

CD.BMP,

the main program: SHDN.EXE,

this help file: SHDN.HLP and

its contents file: SHDN.CNT

into a folder of your choice.

If you want, you can copy all the files, but only the above files are necessary to run the program. (You can change the icons to up to 100 other icons (name: S1.ICO ... S100.ICO), if you want to create your own system tray animation. I have added some other sets to ShutDown NOW!©'s archive. Please read the INSTALL.TXT of each set, giving some hints ... although installation is easy by replacing all existing icons.)

-	Create a shortcut for SHDN.EXE on your desktop (and for this HELP file, if you want to consult it more often), rename the shortcut (NOT THE PROGRAM ITSELF!) to e.g. 'ShutDown NOW! v2.1' and place (copy) all shortcuts where you want (e.g. in a "Start | Program | ShutDown NOW!" menu-folder).

-	Run the 'ShutDown NOW!© v2.1' shortcut or run SHDN.EXE directly from its folder.

Some words to an automatic installation/setup:

It would be necessary to include a setup program to ShutDown NOW!© of some reasons:

1.	The number of files coming with ShutDown NOW!© increased dramatically since version 2.0x.

2.	It is easier for the users to let their systems configuration changed by a standard setup program, instead of copying all files 'by hand'.

3.	It confirms to the MS-Windows® guidelines to include a setup.

... these were the thoughts I had, as I looked onto my Borland Delphi® Developer CD-ROM and installed InstallShield™ from Sterling Technologies to my harddisk ...

After completing a distribution disk (and also before), I noticed that this software is not the optimum and it seems to work on a 16-bit base. More important is, that it does not include uninstall capabilities into my project, although I have checked the 'automatic uninstall support' checkbox in its options under "Set Visual Design | Features". - It is very uncomfortable to handle and not well documented. - Additionally it let the 519 kb ZIP archive of ShutDown NOW!© grow to 1.1 MB - and that with no uninstall support, no possibility to copy a file somewhere outside of the user-specified folder (e.g. into the Windows® directory) and no support for manual writing an uninstall entry into the systems registry! At least in my German version of Windows® it does install a folder with shortcuts into the user-specified setup-folder, linking one directory level up to the binaries. It installs a shortcut for that shortcut folder into the users START* | PROGRAM* menu, that looks like a normal folder, not like the standard ones with an arrow at their right!

The very expensive Eschalon Setup™, of which I have an offer of about  $256 (DM 423,-) ... that is more than a Delphi v2.0 Developer update cost, ... might be a much better alternative. I tested their demo program and was very impressed! - But I will wait until Delphi® v3.0 comes out (it shall be within this month) and then I will look, if Borland will still be my favorite ... Otherwise I think, I will have to pay the little too big price for that impressing software of Eschalon.

Uninstall support (UNINST.EXE):

The SHDN Uninstaller (here in the 'small' version 2.0) is able to:

a)	remove all settings,

b)	remove all settings and delete all of the installation files (only the 'big' version), and

c)	to reset all settings to their default values, without deleting anything

It is simply driven by dialogs, appearing if you have chosen what you want to do.

Please follow these dialogs until the uninstaller ends or the desired action is performed.

You can close the uninstaller by pressing the closer button ('x') of its window, choosing 'close' from its window menu or pressing ALT+F4 on your keyboard.


Known Problems  FAQ

Please print this page first!

Here is a list of some problems that I have found and a collection of questions that users of ShutDown NOW!© have asked me frequently. - Please report any incompatibilities, questions or remarks to my e-mail address! That will help to correct bugs in future versions.

General:

What shall I do, if the countdown timer is too quick and I have enabled "Run at Startup"?

What shall I do, if I'm thrown out of Windows, every time I boot?

-	Remove SHDN.INI from your Windows® directory. (Do that by using a MS-DOS boot disk, or restarting in MS-DOS mode, if necessary.)  If you have enabled NTFS for your Windows NT™ partition, you can restore the settings by logging into the system with another account and deleting SHDN.INI.

May I put a shortcut for ShutDown NOW!© into my Startup folder?

-	I watched no problems, if a shortcut of ShutDown NOW!© was in the Startup folder.

BUT: BE CAREFUL!  Do not place a shortcut into that folder, which lets the system shutdown as soon as it has started!  The only way to undo that, is to delete SHDN.EXE !

It is recommended to use the "Always start in System Tray" option to start ShutDown NOW!© on system boot, if you are a Win95 or NT™ v4.0 user.  Then, if you should get trouble, it is enough to delete (or remove) the SHDN.INI file from the Windows® directory!

Why does "WinPopUp" generates an error, if I shut down with "Force closing"?

-	"WinPopUp" (a network message solution, coming with MS-Windows®) cannot be closed by ShutDown NOW!© with a "Force Closing" option, because (I suspect ...) this network application requires sending an information to its clients before it ends. This information is a kind of data, that will not be 'saved', if you shut down with "Force Closing". - For more information of "Force Closing" problems, look at the next questions and answers.

Why doesn't my application save its data? - Why are there files in the system's temporary folder?

-	You shut down / rebooted / reloged with one of the "Force Closing " options in the Action-DropDownListBox! This mode is only for closing the system very fast, if all data is already saved, - or if you have an application that prevents the system from shutting down.

You should use one of the normal options from the list, if you want a 'clean' shutdown.

I always get a "WARNING: You have started another application (...)" message. - How can I suppress this message?

-	Shutting down / rebooting / relogging and running an application shortly before it, can lead to error messages of the system or the application. - It is recommended to specify either to start another application with the "No Warning" checkbox checked or additionally with a delay (sleep) between the start of the other application and the shutdown / reboot / relog. "Force" always closes that application without giving it time to save its data!

Windows NT™ v3.5 and v3.51:

Why are some settings / the Move-To-Tray button disabled under WinNT v3.5 or v3.51?

-	This version of Windows NT™ does not support the same things like the new shell of Windows® 95 or Windows NT™ v4.0. Therefore some of the options, that are only supported on later versions of Windows®, have to be disabled on NT™ v3.5 or v3.51.

Windows NT™ (all):

Why doesn't my computer shutdown/reboot?

-	Under Windows NT™ the users must have shutdown privileges. This is disabled by default for 'normal' users or guests, logging into NT™ from a workstation. Please ask your system administrator to enable these privileges with the "User Manager for Domains" for you.

Windows® 95:

How do I get back my splash-screens (boot-screen/shutdown-screens)?

I have uninstalled ShutDown NOW!© - and now my splash-screens (boot-screen/shutdown-screens) are not shown again!  How do I get them back?

-	Many users have reported, that they have no splash-screens after removing ShutDown NOW!© or while using ShutDown NOW!©.

The simple answer is, that ShutDown NOW!© v1.x to v2.0b (04/17/97) disabled these screens by default.  It was always possible to restore them by opening its Settings-Notebook, choosing the last tab-sheet "System", going there to page 2 and unchecking the checkboxes. (Press 'Save' after this operation.)

All versions after ShutDown NOW!© v2.0b (04/17/97) will enable these screens by default. You should see 'LS' 'L1' 'L2' in the status-bar at the bottom of the ShutDown NOW!© main window.  If you do not see these entries, your screens are disabled (e.g. by a former version of ShutDown NOW!© or by another application).

You can enable them again by either using Shutdown NOW!© itself, as described above, or by running the UNINST.EXE program (of older SHDN versions), that you will find on my homepage.

If you want to do that 'by hand', you can set the entry: LOGO=0 to LOGO=1 in the MSDOS.SYS file on drive C:\ - and renaming LOGOS.SY! and LOGOW.SY! in your Windows® 95 directory to LOGOS.SYS and LOGOW.SYS.

Why doesn't Windows® 95 shutdown like it should do?

Why do I get only a black screen on shutdown?

-	If you use some resident programs which do not allow termination from outside with ShutDown NOW!©'s force closing option, these programs might hang and prevent Windows® 95 from shutdown.  You will be warned, if you enable a force closing option under Windows® 95 with ShutDown NOW!©.  None of these restrictions have been recognized under Windows NT™!

Programs belonging to this group are: Norton Anti-Virus 95™ (if it is loaded in the system tray) and for general every (anti-virus) application that scans floppy disks at shutdown. Other applications may also belong to this class. Please report them to me!

-	Another reason might be, that you have no local network. You should be able to use these options, if Windows® 95 supports relogging from its normal shutdown-selection dialog, otherwise you will get an error message from ShutDown NOW!©.

Why are there two ShutDown NOW!© entries in my taskbar?

-	If you use the Norton Navigator™ taskbar and if it is loaded every time you start Windows®, then if ShutDown NOW!© is configured with the option "Always start in System Tray" and one of the timers is active at startup, a second ShutDown NOW!© instance will be shown in the Norton Navigator™ taskbar.

This does not do anything, but does not look nice...

There is no solution at now to remove the second ShutDown NOW!© entry in the Norton Navigator™ taskbar. If you don't need the timer function, you can disable it from the Settings- Notebook of ShutDown NOW!©  or you can prevent the Norton Navigator™ taskbar from loading at system boot. You can also disable the second task-entry by exiting and restarting ShutDown NOW!©.


Keyboard Functions

Here now is an overview of the keyboard functions available besides the default functions concerning the underlined letters of each control and the default Windows® keyboard controls (e.g. if a control like a button has the focus):

Main Window and Settings Notebook:

'F1'	shows this help file context-sensitive (depending on the button/control,

that is actual highlighted). You can scroll with the 'TAB' key through

most of the controls!

Main Window Functions (case independent):

'O'	... for 'Options' - opens the "Settings-Notebook"

'T'	... for Tray - moves ShutDown NOW!© to the system tray, if available

'I'	... for 'Information' - opens the Information / Registration Form window

'1' ... '0'	selects shutdown event number 1 ('ShutDown') to number 10 ('WinNT

DOS Window Session' or 'Ask me always how ...' (Win95)) in the Dropdown Listbox

Settings-Notebook Functions:

Arrow LEFT/RIGHT	scrolls through the page control (Tab Sheets) at the top of the Settings-

Notebook.

Arrow UP/DOWN	changes the (animated) page control at the bottom of the Settings-

Notebook, if it is visible and has the focus.

ESC	cancels the Settings-Notebook and opens the main window.

(Additionally you always can press 'C', 'T', 'W', or 'Y' for 'Controls', 'Timers', 'Watchdogs' and 'System' to change the page control (Tab Sheets) directly without scrolling through them!)

"Ask me always how ..." Window Functions:

ESC	cancels the window and closes it.


All about Buttons: ...

The next chapter will tell you all you have to know about ShutDown NOW!©'s options and settings.


The ShutDown NOW!© Button

This button lets you manually start the shutdown event displayed (chosen) in the Action DropDownListBox below the button (first picture) or let you start one of the timers manually (second picture) before the selected shutdown-event will occur.

The button is disabled, if you have started a timer and then pressed the Pause Button.


The Action-DropDownListBox

Here you can choose how you want to shut down. Click on the right hand sided opener/closer arrow to expand or collapse the box.  Use the mouse to choose an action.

All possible actions are described under: ShutDown Scenarios

If you press the ShutDown NOW!© Button, this action will be performed.


The Status Bar

The status bar lists most of the chosen options as: timer, time, running an application before shutdown, initialization of hard-drives before shutdown or which boot- and shutdown-logos are enabled (Windows® 95).

These are the entries from left to right:

Timer	= timer is enabled

(0000:00:00)	= displays the countdown time

EX	= a program/file will be started before shutdown

IN	= hard-drives will be initialized before shutdown

LS	= Windows® 95 startup-logo is enabled

L1	= Windows® 95 first shutdown-logo is enabled

L2	= Windows® 95 second shutdown-logo is enabled


The Settings-Button

The Settings-Button displays the Settings-Notebook where you can select different options. All available options are collected in the following pictures.

If a tab-sheet of the Settings-Notebook has more than one page, a small page control [image] will be visible at the bottom of the notebook between the "Default" and "Cancel" buttons. - This enables you to switch between the existing pages by either clicking on the up- or down arrow, or by typing the desired page number into its edit field. A small animation will be shown, if you change the page.

Please click on the pictures to get help about the correspondent option:

(Controls Page No. 1)            (Controls Page No. 2)

(Page No. 1 has another outlook under Windows NT™ v3.5, v3.51)

(System Page No. 1)            (System Page No. 2)

(The system settings tab-sheet is not visible under Windows NT™ v3.5, v3.51)


The Pages and the Page Control

The page control enables you to switch between all tab-sheet pages of the Settings-Notebook.

If a page is currently not visible, you can scroll it to the top by clicking on the left or right arrow at the right hand side of the control, or by pressing the underlined key on your keyboard, if the tab-sheet control has the focus.

Another part of the page control is the [image] control at the bottom of tab-sheet pages (between the Default- and the Cancel Button) that contain more than one page.

This control lets you select another page by either typing a valid number into its edit-field, pressing the up- or down-arrow key on the keyboard, while it has the focus, or by clicking on its up- or down arrow on the screen.

There may be important pages 'behind' the first page! - Therefore use these controls to look at them, if you don't know where to find a special setting!


The Save Button

The Save button is the left of the three buttons below the page control. It is located left at the bottom of the Settings-Notebook.

It saves all current settings from all tab-sheets and pages of the page control and closes the Settings-Notebook.


The Default Button

The Default Button resets all settings of all pages and tab-sheets of the Settings- Notebook.

It restores all settings of all pages and tab-sheets to their standard, as if you have just installed ShutDown NOW!©.


The Cancel Button

With the Cancel Button, you can undo all changes of the Settings-Notebook since you last pressed the Save Button.

If you are not sure, if you have changed something - or if you changed something and you do not know what has changed, then press this button to return to the main window of ShutDown NOW!© without saving any changes.


Always start in System Tray

If this checkbox is checked, then ShutDown NOW!© will always come up in the system tray, if you click at the program icon, AND this checkbox makes ShutDown NOW!© loading itself into the system tray every time you start Windows®!

The system tray is a part of the task-bar, the big bar (normally ...) at the bottom of the screen, which can be automatically hidden or constantly be shown.

If "Always start in System Tray” is enabled, ShutDown NOW!© will always be shown in the system tray, besides the clock and/or the sound symbol (if you have a sound card in your system and enabled one or both). There may be many different icons in the system tray or you have enabled the automatic-hide method of the task-bar, but I'm sure that you will see the ShutDown NOW!© icon there!

This checkbox is not visible under Windows NT™ v3.5x.


Animated

If this checkbox is checked, an animated icon will be shown in the system tray, instead of a fixed icon, if you uncheck this box.

You can show your own animation by changing the four standard icons, which come with ShutDown NOW!©, from 2 up to 100 of your own icons. You will find some icon sets on my WEB site too (if I have new ones) - and you are asked to contact me, if you want your own icons presented there.

This checkbox is not visible under Windows NT™ v3.5x.


tray icon Animation Speed

The value of this label tells you how fast (or slow) the animated icon in the system tray will be displayed. It can change from 1 up to 2000, where 1 is the fastest- and 2000 is the slowest value in milliseconds between the display of two icons.

The standard value is 80, but it may differ depending on the computers speed and the number and kind of icons being displayed in the system tray. - The best way to find out which speed is the best, is to test it. - Additionally the 'recommended speed' is given for each new icon-set in its installation hint file.


Reset the tray icon Animation Speed

This button resets the tray-icon's animation speed to its default setting: 80 milliseconds.


Start Centered

The "Start Centered" checkbox is located on page 2 of the Controls page in the Settings-Notebook.

Check this checkbox, if you want ShutDown NOW!©'s main window coming up centered (the next time you start ShutDown NOW!©), if the main window is visible and opened on the desktop.

Uncheck this checkbox, if you want ShutDown NOW!©'s main window always be replaced to its last coordinates.


Animated Windows

This checkbox enables (if checked) or disables (if unchecked) the animation of the following ShutDown NOW!© windows:

-	the main window

-	the "ShutDown HOW?" window

The "Animated Windows" checkbox is located on page 2 of the Controls page in the Settings-Notebook.

Although ShutDown NOW!©'s window animation has rapidly increased during the beta test phase, animations could slow down the users work with ShutDown NOW!© a little bit - or the user does not want animations. Therefore the window animations of ShutDown NOW!© (except for the Information window) can be disabled ... or enabled here.


Enable Hints

The "Enable Hints" checkbox is located on page 2 of the Controls page in the Settings-Notebook.

Check this checkbox, if you want to get small yellow hints every time you move over an element like a button, checkbox, edit field, etc. ...

This feature is a quick help for beginners, who do not want to read a big online-help first. It is also recommended to enable this feature, if you need a quick introduction to the features of ShutDown NOW!©.

Uncheck this checkbox, if it confuses you too much, watching the pop-up hints or if you are an experienced user.


Shut down without Dialog

This checkbox is only visible under Windows NT™ v3.5x.  Not in version 4.0 or under Windows® 95!

It will show a syntax information about the possible commandline options, that you can add to a shortcut under Windows NT™ v3.5 or v3.51 to enable a shutdown from a shortcut.  The old function of this checkbox has been removed!


The Enable Timer Checkbox

Check this to enable ShutDown NOW!©'s timer/countdown features.

If this checkbox is checked, ShutDown NOW!© always starts with the countdown you selected underneath this box, if you press the "ShutDown NOW!" button or double-click onto the tray-icon or start a shutdown option from the tray-icon menu. - Uncheck this box to disable all timers/countdowns.


The Run at Startup Checkbox

Check this box, if you want ShutDown NOW!© always be started with a countdown running.

Be careful! - Don't enable this, if the countdown is too short to stop or pause it! Otherwise it may happen, that you will be thrown out of the system faster than you wanted.

You will be warned, if the selected time is too short to stop (or pause) the countdown.  If you ignore this warning, you have to remove the SHDN.INI file from your Windows® directory, if you get in trouble with the countdown.


Shutdown at / Shutdown in Timers

Here you can select, if you want to shutdown at a time within 24-hours, - or if you want to shutdown after the number of seconds that you have typed into the edit field to the right of the "Shutdown in:" radio-box.

The second interval (edit field) reaches from one second to 9,999,999 seconds (that are 2777.7775 hours or 115.7407292 days).

To change both timers quicker, you can use the trackbar at the bottom of this notebook page. The trackbar changes the seconds in intervals of 3,600 seconds (1 hour) up to 86,400 seconds (24 hours) and it changes the 24-hour clock settings in an interval of five minutes.

Only one timer is active at the same time!


Adjust the Time

Instead of the trackbar, you can change the 24-hour clock by pressing the up/down buttons (arrows).

This way adjusting the clock is more precisely than using the trackbar. Using the trackbar is quicker.

Use this function to change hours from '00' h (midnight) to '23' h (11 p.m.), minutes from '00' min to '59' min and seconds from '00' sec to '59' sec in an interval of one for each setting.  The "run over" function of these controls lets their value return to '00', if you reach '59' (or '23') and press the Up-Button - or the other way around: from '00' to '59' (or '23'), if you press the Down-Button.

In combination with the trackbar these buttons let you change the countdown clock quick and precisely to the desired hour, minute and second!


The Time adjusting Trackbar

Uses this trackbar changes the 'operational' countdown timer, as described under "Shutdown at / Shutdown in Timers" and "Adjust the Time" some pages above, either in 3,600 second steps or 5 minute steps.

Use this trackbar to change the settings quicker and in bigger intervals.  You can drag the pin in the middle of the trackbar from left to right. Dragging it left, decreases the interval, dragging it right, increases the interval.  Clicking left or right the pin, decreases or increases the settings by one trackbar interval (3,600 seconds = 1 hour, if you use the seconds, or 5 minutes, if you use the 24-hour clock settings).


Run Application first
Run an Application first

This checkbox has two functions:

-	If the edit field underneath this checkbox is empty, it brings up a file-selection-box, that lets you choose an executable file(-type) which path and name is displayed in the edit field, if you confirm with 'OK'. It then can be edited. For example, you can add parameters to a program.

-	To the second, it enables running the chosen application (in the edit field) at shutdown, if the edit field is not empty.

The edit field underneath this checkbox will be disabled, if the field is empty!

a)	Check this checkbox, if you want to choose a new application to be started before shutdown.

b)	Empty the edit field first, if you want to get a file-selection-box, for choosing a new file!

c)	Type an existing path- / application name into the edit field, or change parameters of an existing entry in the edit field, or enter a new location without displaying a file-selection-box.


No Warning

If this checkbox is checked, the "WARNING: You have started another application (...)" message will be suppressed, if you have enabled the "Run Application first" feature.

The "Run Application first" checkbox has to be checked first to enable this checkbox and the "Sleep after Running" ("sleep:") settings.

If you check the "No Warning" checkbox, the following will happen, if you shut down:

1.)	The application specified in the edit-field below the "No Warning" checkbox will be run (with its parameters).

2.)	ShutDown NOW!© waits the time specified with the "Sleep after Running" ("sleep:") settings. If they are zero, ShutDown NOW!© does not wait.

3.)	The system shuts down with the option, given in the Action-DropDownListBox.

Shutting down / rebooting / relogging and running an application shortly before it, can lead to error messages of the system or the application. - It is recommended to specify either to start another application with the "Warning Message" setting enabled or with a delay ('sleep') between the start of the other application and the shutdown / reboot / relog. "Force" always closes that application without giving it time to save its data!


Sleep after Running

Here you can set a delay between the start of the other application and the shutdown / reboot / relog in milliseconds. Values reaches from 0 ms to 65,535 ms.

To change the setting, you can either click with- or hold the left mouse button on the up/down arrows above the label, that shows the current value. The right mouse button can be used too, but it only increases the delay-value.

The left mouse button increases or decreases the value by one, if you click. - If you hold the left mouse button down, it increases or decreases the value by 100 after a short period of time.

The right mouse button increases the delay-value by 1,000 - no matter if you click or hold it. But if you hold it, the value will be increased faster.

If you reach the maximum or the minimum the value will be changed into the opposite.


Initialize all local Drives

This (stand-alone) feature is for the HD power-OFF feature of some SCSI or E-IDE adapters/drives, which is sometimes not fast enough to spin up the drives on system shutdown!

This turns the drive's power on, before the system says: "You can turn off your computer now...".

Otherwise some HDs are not fast enough, if their power was off, and the above message will never appear ... (It does not write back the cache to that drive and hangs before the drive has spun up!)

This was one reason, why I've written ShutDown NOW!© for my own purposes.

I have an Adaptec 2940 PCI/SCSI controller and I used Adaptec's EZ-SCSI v4.0 SCSI-Explorer™ to enable SCSI Power Management for my drives.  One drive, a Quantum Lightning™, was not fast enough ... and the above described effect occurred.


Give the System Settings Folder an Alternative Name

The "Alt. Name" Edit Field:

You can type an alternative name for the System Settings folder (... also known as 'Control Panel' ...) into the edit field.

Any name up to 255 characters correspondent to the Windows® 95 or Windows NT™ file name conventions is valid.

If you have typed in a name, you can press the "... to Start Menu" Button, if you want to copy a System Settings folder with that name to the Start Menu (one level higher than it is the systems default).

The "private" Checkbox:

If the 'private' checkbox is checked (only available under Windows NT™ v4.0) the Control Panel (or its folder with an alternative name) will be copied to the current NT™ user's Start Menu only! - If 'private' is not checked, then if you have system administrator rights, it will be copied to the Start Menu of all users!


Copy the System Settings Folder one Level Higher to the Start Menu
Copy the System Settings Folder one Level Higher into the Start Menu

This button lets you copy the System Settings folder (also known as "Control Panel" and normally under START | SETTINGS) one level higher into the Microsoft Start-(Task-)Bar menu, so you can easily access all of its contents without opening it on the desktop. (Like the folders with an arrow on their right side.)

This action is performed as soon as you press the button - no matter, if you press the Save / Default / Cancel Button later.

This function depends on the language version of your Windows® operating system. - I cannot guaranty, that it will work on exotic system languages too (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Russian, ...), but it should work for all countries where the Windows® Start menu begins with the letters "START" (SHDN is searching for "START*") and the Programs menu begins with the letters "PROGRAM" (SHDN is searching for "PROGRAM*", because it needs this 'fix-point').

New since version 2.1 of ShutDown NOW!© is, that you are enable to choose if you want a "private" name for only your Start menu - or a global entry in the Start menu for all users, if you are working under Windows NT™ v4.0.


Remove the "System Settings Folders" from the Start Menu

This button removes all copies of the System Settings folder from the top-level of the Start Menu, no matter what name they have. - It has no sense to insert a name into the edit field above this button, if you want to remove a special folder.

New since version 2.1 of ShutDown NOW!© is, that it removes either all "private" entries in the Start menu - or all global entries in the Start menu, if you are working under Windows NT™ v4.0.


Enable or disable Windows® 95 Logos

These settings are located on page 2 of the "System" settings in the Settings-Notebook of ShutDown NOW!©.

Here you can enable or disable all boot- and shutdown logos (there are one boot- (LS) and two shutdown logos (L1, L2) in the system) of Windows® 95.  In older versions of ShutDown NOW!© all these 'splash'-screens, how they are often called, were disabled by default.  Because this confused some unsuspecting users, having no documentation for the beta version of ShutDown NOW!© in their hands, I decided to turn all 'splash'-screens on by default.  If you never have had ShutDown NOW!© (and therefore no SHDN.INI file is in you Windows® directory), ShutDown NOW!© shows three entries in its status bar: LS, L1 and L2, showing that the logos are on.  If you cannot see these entries, the logo/s is/are disabled!

This feature is nearly self-explaining, but let me say one word:

LOGOS.SYS and LOGOW.SYS are the shutdown logos in your Windows® 95 directory. They will be renamed to: LOGOS.SY! and LOGOW.SY!, if the checkboxes are enabled.

For the boot-logo, in MSDOS.SYS (a text-file under Win95) the entry LOGO=1 will be changed to LOGO=0, if the correspondent checkbox is enabled.

All this is not changed under Windows NT™ (all versions) and the checkboxes are disabled (grayed)  or not visible (NT™ v3.5, v3.51)!

You can use ShutDown NOW!© together with both Windows® systems.  It is constructed under- and for a Multi-Windows® 32-Bit system environment.


The Move-to-Tray Button

This is the second button at the top of the main window of ShutDown NOW!©, showing a big blue arrow that points to the lower right.

If this button is enabled (it is disabled under Windows NT™ v3.5x), you can move ShutDown NOW!© into your system tray (part of the taskbar of Windows® 95 and Windows NT™ v4.0).

You can show its window again, by left-clicking on the tray-icon or by selecting "Open..." or "Settings..." from the menu that will appear, if you right-click on the tray-icon.


The (I)nformation Button

The Information Button shows an (always) animated window with a current description of the ShutDown NOW!© registration, my address, e-mail, URL, bank account data, a calculation of prices for single and multi-user licenses and a registration form, that you can print or 'send' as a hardcopy to a text file and Windows®'s Notepad.

Some printers do not support the (very uncomfortable) print routines of Delphi®. - Therefore the same text will be written as an ASCII file, called ORDPRN.TXT, as soon as you check the "Hardcopy to: ORDPRN.TXT" checkbox.  So if you have difficulties to print out the form, please use the ASCII text. (Print it from MS-DOS® Editor - or Windows®'s Notepad, for example, to which it is sent by default.)


The Pause Button

The Pause Button is only be shown on the main window of ShutDown NOW!©, if one of the timers is enabled. The button is enabled and lighted, if the timer runs - and disabled and darkened, if the timer is a 24-hour timer or the timer is stopped (not running).

Pressing this button, changes its view to a 'Play' symbol or a 'Pause' symbol as on your Hi-fi equipment. 'Play' means, that you can continue the countdown, 'Pause' means, that you can interrupt the countdown.

If it is required by the user's interaction, this button will be pressed or released from ShutDown NOW!©.  If it is pressed, the "ShutDown NOW!© Button", will be disabled (grayed), otherwise it will be enabled.

You can pause (or stop) a running timer from the system tray's icon-menu too, by clicking right onto the tray-icon, if it is shown and then selecting the appropriate menu entry!


The Stop Button

The Stop Button is only be shown on the main window of ShutDown NOW!©, if one of the timers is enabled. The button is enabled and lighted, if the timer runs - and disabled and darkened, if the timer is stopped.

The button has the same function as on your Hi-fi equipment at home. If it is pressed and released, the current running timer will be stopped.

You can stop a running timer from the system tray's icon-menu too, by clicking right onto the tray-icon, if it is shown, and then selecting the appropriate menu entry!


The Progress Bar

The Progress Bar shows a graphical impression of the countdown progress.

It fills itself from the left to the right until the countdown, chosen from the timer options and started by the "ShutDown NOW!© Button", reaches zero (... or one, because on zero the shutdown disables it).


Commandline / Shortcut Parameters

You can use ShutDown NOW!©'s parameters to control ShutDown NOW!© from a MS-DOS commandline or from a shortcut to SHDN.EXE (.LNK file). - Use the "/?", "/HELP" or "/H" parameter to open the dialog in the picture above, that informs you about the syntax. -

E.g. you can shut down / reboot / relog without any dialog after clicking on ShutDown NOW!©'s shortcut on the desktop, - or if you are working on a (full-screen) commandline, you can type: "SHDN /REBOOT" - and your system reboots promptly. (If you want a saver way, then type: "SHDN /REBOOT /SAVE" and a message box appears asking you, if you really want to shut down! ... and so on ...)

Some of the options can be used in addition to the normal call of SHDN.EXE (without parameters or options), to cause special effects, like starting another program, before ShutDown NOW!©'s main window appears, ... like a scheduler. ...

Whenever you call SHDN.EXE with a parameter and/or option you should know, that all parameters and options are overwriting the correspondent settings that you have made in ShutDown NOW!©'s Settings-Notebook!

I do not want to list the options and parameters at this point again, because they (the correspondent options/settings for ShutDown NOW!©'s window mode) are all listed in the paragraphs above and a short description of them can be also reviewed in the heading picture of this page.

Commandline parameters are nothing for computer novices, so they first should get familiar with the paragraphs above this page, before they hack commands in their machines, without knowledge of the results!


et cetera: ...

The next chapter will tell you something about the registration, my addresses, the license and the (obligatory) trademarks.


Shareware Registration

ShutDown NOW!© is shareware. It requires a registration, after you have tested the program and you want to use it for longer than 14 days.

A short hint or shareware-countdown remembers the user of ShutDown NOW!© that his period of testing the program has been elapsed and he is allowed to use ShutDown NOW!© beyond this time too, but with this little 'break'.  If this disturbs him, then he will be remembered of the shareware principle, which idea allowed him to get this high-quality software, developed in hundreds of hours with less sleep and food, for free.  And maybe he wants to reward me for that hard work by paying the small shareware fee of ShutDown NOW!©. If he does, he will get a key-number in return, that will disable the hint or countdown for the ShutDown NOW!© version he has on his computer and all future versions of this software. He always can update ShutDown NOW!© by downloading it from the Internet, his local BBS, shareware CD-ROMs, etc. ... .  If he has his personal, unique key-number (it is only his number and nobody else has it, even if someone should have the same name) he can use all future versions like the registered last version.

(This could lead some software pirates to give a key-number away. - But because I know whose key it is, I know the one who gave it away and nearby I can disable every single key for the next version.)

Overview of the payment conditions and prices for customers outside Germany:

 ( [X] = payment desired / [-] = payment not desired )

All payments have to be in US Dollar.

Overview of the payment conditions and prices for German customers:

 ( [X] = Zahlungsart erwuenscht / [-] = Zahlungsart nicht erwuenscht )

(* Please run ShutDown NOW!©, press the  'i' button and then the "Registration Form"

button in the lower right corner of the window.)

If you want to transfer the money to my bank, please transfer it to:

Account Name:	C. Stratz

Bank Name:	Postbank Berlin, Germany

Bank No. (BLZ):	100 100 10

Account number: 	1058 69 105

How you will receive your key-number:

You will receive your key-number in a fast way: by Internet e-mail (don't forget to tell me your e-mail address!) or on a postcard.

Duration sending a normal letter:

I will send you your key-number within one day after your cheque, cash or money order has arrived.

All registrations requires sending a signed registration form!

(Except if you want to register for a multi user- and machine license, you can e-mail the form to me first and send a signed copy later with post mail, because it takes some time to implement your name and the number of registered licenses into the program.)

You'll find my address on the next page ...


Contact
How You Reach Me

Here you can contact me: ...

You reach me (Mo.-Su.):

Address:	Carsten Stratz

Berlepschstrasse 136

D-14165 Berlin, GERMANY

Tel. (FAX):	+49-30-8024157

E-Mail:	cstratz@arco.met.fu-berlin.de

URL (homepage):	http://arco.met.fu-berlin.de/~cstratz

On the following sites (and on my homepage and the correspondent sites) you will find links to the latest versions of my programs - including SHDNxxxx.ZIP. If you have a slow connection - or do not want to wait: The first place I'll send my software to, is my own homepage for sure - and WUGNET:

This shareware application can be found in the WINUSER Forum on CompuServe, an official distribution and support online resource for future updates.

The Windows Users Group Network [image] , operators of the oldest and largest independent support resource forum [WINUSER] for Windows users on CIS with over 1,000,000 active members is recognized in the press, user groups, developers, and Microsoft as the foremost resource for shareware publishers on CompuServe and the Internet.

ShutDown NOW!© has become "Pick of the Week" on [image] 18th 1997 on

(Past recipients of WINUSER's "Pick of the Week" have been IFA, WinZip, ThumbsUp, Paint Shop Pro, Metz Phones, and many other popular programs.)

Other sites are:

ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win95/sysutil

or:   ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/winnt/sysutil

or:   http://www.winsite.com

http://www.coast.net/SimTel/win95/sysutil.html

or:   ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/win95/sysutil

http://www.download.com

http://www.hotfiles.com


Version History of ShutDown NOW!©

ShutDown NOW! v2.1:

Fixes:

-	Some small fixes in saving the settings, in the language routines, the registration form printing and the information form.

Changes:

-	I removed the blown-up InstallShield™ support, because it increased the small ShutDown NOW!© archive (519 kb) up to 1.1 Mb and did not help, as it should! (Please refer to "How You Start")

New / Additions:

-	Added menu entry "Help..." to the tray-icon menu, displaying the online help file, if you right-click the icon and choose this.

-	checkbox for WinNT 4 private or global Control Panel (System Settings) entry in the Start Menu.

-	updated online help, now describing all 'hidden' keyboard controls

-	included Uninstall v2.0, a simple program to reset or remove ShutDown NOW!©'s settings

ShutDown NOW! v2.02:

Remarks:

There are many major changes and additions in this version.

It has been tested by thousands of users in different countries during a 2-week beta test phase with daily updates on my WEB page. - The following are the major things that have changed:

Fixes:

-	registration form did not accept input in the final beta version

Changes:

-	Win95 logos (splash-screens) are now on by default

-	shareware 10-sec. countdown when shutting down appearing the first time after 14 days. - No more nag screens and messages!

New / Additions:

-	complete new style and internal structures

-	complete new animation interface

-	updated tray-icon internals (supports now up to 100 animated icons dynamically) and the icon's menu

-	animated windows (optional) and control panels in the Settings Notebook

-	"Always ask me how ..." - shutdown option, displaying a window with all shutdown options and saving the last chosen shutdown option, enabling the possibility to cancel a shutdown!

-	"ShutDown to DOS" - Win95 shutdown option

-	"WinNT DOS Window Session" - WinNT 'shutdown' option, calling a commandline from the system tray with a double-click

-	complete commandline support of (near) all options and additional functions

-	a possibility for changing the speed of the icon animation in the system tray

-	optional disabling the "You have started another application ..." safety question, if you start an application before shutdown

-	specify a delay instead, between starting another application and shut down

-	support for moving the control panel into Window's Start Menu's top-level: included for Win95 and for WinNT v4.0 too!

-	complete InstallShield™ installation support, as coming with Borland Delphi v2.0, for ShutDown NOW!

ShutDown NOW! v1.2:

-	animated system-tray icon with menu to control all features from there

-	opt. enable or disable Win95 boot- (1) and shutdown screens (2)

-	start the countdown timers at the same time as the program

-	shell support for the new WinNT v4.0 and extra support for the old v3.5x program manager

-	UNINST.EXE program to reset or remove all settings and INI files

-	shutdown with one double-click without loosing the possibility to show the program window (system tray)

-	faster and saver shutdowns

-	memory reductions ... on the existing routines

-	many, many bug fixes and enhancements

-	printable order form with license no. and money/exchange calculation

-	new text for my new WEB site and e-mail address (changed my provider at the beginning of this year)

ShutDown NOW! v1.0:

-	fixed window-sizer bug: you can now minimize the SHDN window! ... was an ugly mistake 'till now.

-	fixed 'EX' disappear in status, if you have stopped the timer (or ran settings). ... nothing big.

-	created HELP file ... with some nice pictures! ... and state-of-the-art Win95 (NT 4.0) layout.


ShutDown NOW!© Shareware Software License

for a single person on a single computer

This software license belongs to the following software and all files coming with the software:

ShutDown NOW!© version "xx.xx”, Copyright 1996-97 by Carsten Stratz.

This license replaces all former shareware software licenses of this software, as soon as it is made public, even if it is not yet read by the user of this software, but he could read it by getting the last version of the software from a public place or directly by the author of the software.

This software is protected by the copyright law and international copyright treaty. Therefore, you must treat this software just like a book, except that you may copy it onto a computer to be used and you may make archive copies of the software for the sole purpose of backing up the software and protecting your investment from loss.

By saying just like a "book”, I mean, for example, that this software may be used by any number of people, and may be freely moved from one computer or location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used by more than one person at a time, except of the shareware nature of this software, described in paragraph one of this license. Just as the same book can't be read by two different people in two different rooms at the same time without my permission.

You can order another license for a multi user- and machine version of the software.

The following license is valid for all users in all countries. If some parts of this license differ from the law of the country in which this software is used, all other parts of this license will stay valid.

By using this software its user agrees to this license, that is part of the software, whether they have read it or not. Simple running of this software, means to agree to this license, as soon as this license could be read by the users eyes.

1.) ShutDown NOW!© Shareware Agreement:

By using this software the user agrees to use the software not longer than 14 days after the day of the first installation, except he pays for the software after this period of time, as described under the current payment conditions for the software.

If the user decides not to use the software after 14 days or earlier, he has to delete the installed version of the software.

The user commits to tell the correct number of computers (machines) and the number of users that will work with the software, if he wants to register the software. If this is not possible (e.g. if he wants to use the software on public locations), he has to estimate the number of users per day, that will work with the software or with the computers (machines) containing this software.

The user is allowed to give this software to others under the following conditions:

a)	the version of the software is shareware and not registered (multi-user and -machine versions of this software are NOT shareware and are always registered),

b)	he spreads only an archive of the software, that contains all unused files of this software,

c)	he never tells a registration key number to a third person, neither by voice nor written,

d)	he never claims money for the software, except he distributes it together with other shareware software on: a Shareware CD-ROM or a Shareware Diskette. - Exceptions can be made and require a written contract.

Special conditions for Internet sites, promoting this software:

a)	You are allowed to put a link to this software either direct:

http://arco.met.fu-berlin.de/~cstratz/shdnxxxx.zip

or indirect:

http://arco.met.fu-berlin.de/~cstratz

onto your WEB page, if I was either asked and I have agreed that you can do this, or if I have directly contacted you, or filled out your Software Submission form.

I can revoke this permission at any time without telling a reason.

b)	You are additionally allowed to present screen-shots of this software on your site, if they are certified by me and you update them with new screen-shots, if there are changes in a new version of this software.

c)	You are allowed to present a logo of this software, if you fulfil the conditions in a) and b) and are using one of my certified logos for Internet WEB sites. (Please contact me, if you need one of these logos! - I have animated, not animated, transparent and opaque logos in different sizes.)

2.) Damages.

CARSTEN STRATZ OR HIS SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR (a) INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES OF ANY SORT, WHETHER ARISING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF CARSTEN STRATZ HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR (b) FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.

3.) High Risk Activities.

The software is not fault-tolerant and is not designed, manufactured or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems, in which the failure of the software could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage ("High Risk Activities"). Carsten Stratz and his suppliers specifically disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for High Risk Activities.

4.) Jurisdiction, General Provisions:

Valid in all questions of law is the German law and the German jurisdiction.

All users of this software agree to the German law and the German jurisdiction.


Trademarks

Windows®	is a registered trademark of Microsoft Co.

Windows NT™	is a trademark of Microsoft Co.

Office® 97	is a registered trademark of Microsoft Co.

Delphi®	is a registered trademark of Borland International

Norton Navigator™	is a trademark of Symantec Co.

Norton Anti-Virus 95™	is a trademark of Symantec Co.

InstallShield™ 	is a trademark of Sterling Technologies

Eschalon Setup™	is a trademark of Eschalon Co.

ShutDown NOW!©	is copyright 1996-97 by Carsten Stratz

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