ShutDown NOW! - Read Me First: Please print out this text at first! Features / Idea: ------------------------------------------------- ShutDown NOW!© (short: SHDN) is an application to make it easier, faster and more comfortable to shut down Windows® 95 - or Windows NT™ version 3.5x or 4.0. 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 re- boot 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. Last but not least, Windows® 95th boot- and shutdown screens can be enabled or disabled each for 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! v1.2 - Quick Installation: ------------------------------------------------- General: Don't rename SHDN.exe (upper- and lower cases are allowed)! 1.) Move the four icons (*.ico files) and the main program (SHDN.exe) into a folder of your choice. If you want, you can move all the files, but only the above files are necessary to run the program. (You can change the icons to up to eight other icons with the same name, if you want to create your own system-tray animation. I will place other icon file-sets to my WEB site the next days ...) 2.) Create a shortcut on your desktop for SHDN.exe (and the HELP files), rename the shortcut (NOT THE PROGRAM ITSELF!) to e.g. 'ShutDown NOW! v1.2' - and place all shortcuts where you want (e.g. in the 'Start/Program' menu). 3.) Run the 'ShutDown NOW! v1.2' shortcut or run SHDN.exe directly from it's folder. 4.) Don't wonder, if it is shown for several times in your task-list, if you start it the first time: It is preparing some settings in the registry and installs itself in the shell. ... THIS IS ONLY ONCE, THE FIRST TIME YOU START THE PROGRAM, AFTER YOU GOT IT! ------------------------------------------------- IF YOU HAVE TROUBLES: --------------------- Copy the standard SHDN.INI into you Windows® directory! (This resets all previos settings!) or Delete SHDN.INI in your Windows® directory! or Use the UNINST.EXE to remove some registry entries, if you have deleted SHDN.exe and Windows® reports that it cannot find the program. - This is also recommended for NT v3.5x users who do not want to edit SHDN.INI's Dialog=0 entry. UNINST.EXE has also a reset function to restore all default settings. ------------------------------------------------- Orders and comments to my e-mail or: C. Stratz, Berlepschstr. 136, D-14165 Berlin, Germany Please report errors (IMPORTANT !) to my e-mail: cstratz@arco.met.fu-berlin.de Look for new versions at: http://arco.met.fu-berlin.de/~cstratz ------------------------------------------------- Please start the 32-Bit HELP file for Windows® 95 and -NT™ to read more! Wish you fun with: ------------------ ShutDown NOW! v1.2