Copyright: ©1996-97 by Carsten Stratz - HELP v1.1
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ShutDown NOW!© - Version 1.2x

©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!)

First Contact:

About ShutDown NOW!

... about the idea, requirements, features, guaranties, limitations (if there would be some), etc. ...

ShutDown NOW!© Scenarios

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

How You Start (Installation)

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

Known Problems  FAQ

... a collection of horror ...

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 ...

et cetera ...

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 ...

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:

486 DX-50 Industry-Standard PC, enough memory for Windows® 95 or Windows NT™ plus/including (swap-file) 2,6 MB for SHDN.  Not supported are Win32s on Windows® v3.1x or 16-bit Windows® versions.

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 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.

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!© is programmed with Borland Delphi® v2.0 (32-Bit language).  The 'hottest' of Borland's programming languages ever developed!

But that's not all:

-	You can shutdown your system with a double-click from the system-tray icon!

-	You have 2 timers:

one for 24-hours - and one for 1 to 9,999,999 seconds (that are more than 115 days)!

-	You have the option to:

reboot, shutdown and reboot, relog under a new name (all modes optional with force closing), notebook: power-off mode  and a test-mode with a message box.

-	You can force closing (hanging) running applications or e.g. BBS systems and reboot your machine.

-	You can schedule every type of file, that is in your systems registry before shutdown!

This prevents you to forget doing important things before shutdown, or enables you to start a specific task every time you shut down.

-	You can initialize all local drives:

This prevents you from power-off/on failures if you shutdown before a drive that was powered down has powered up again.

(This supports all host adapters supporting power-off for HD's, incl. AT-EIDE.)

-	Enable boot- and shutdown logos (Win95 only):

You can decide which of the system-logos shall appear on shutdown or boot.

-	Decide whether you want ShutDown NOW!© to be restarted every time you boot.

SHDN uses only 760 Kb when in system-tray. It can be automatically load every time your system starts  or you can place a shortcut on the desktop to keep it handy if you need it.

ShutDown NOW!© has NO limitations, NO shareware dialogs, NO shareware timeouts, nothing that will brake the fun and functionality: for 14 days it will behave, as if you have just registered it - or like freeware. Then it will popup a hint to register it.  That's all.

GUARANTY:	THIS SOFTWARE IS TESTED AND CERTIFIED - AND NO UNDOCUMENTED FEATURES OF WINDOWS® ARE USED TO SUPPORT ITS FUNCTIONS! IT IS A "STATE-OF-THE-ART" APPLICATION USING THE NEW OPERATING SYSTEM CAPABILITIES ON MICROSOFT-INTEL PLATFORMS, AS DESCRIBED, AND IT IS BUILD UNDER THE IDEA TO ENHANCE OR ACCELERATE SYSTEM FEATURES.


ShutDown Scenarios

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

notebooks - which will be shutdown and then their power will be disabled.

-	Message Box (for testing)	this function is for testing the settings, if you are

not an experienced user of ShutDown NOW!

All these events are supported:

-	Shut down with- or without timer, schedule, HD initialization or boot- and shutdown screens.

-	Shut down from the system-tray icon with a double-click.

-	Display the system-tray icon animated or single.

-	Center ShutDown NOW!'s window or replace it where it was last, when it is shown.

-	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.

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

- 	Start countdown at the programs execution / Windows start

-	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).

-	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!)

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

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Try the features and settings with Message Box (for testing) on, not at first with one of the ShutDown events! - Otherwise you will be thrown out of the system, if you want to get familiar with the countdowns, schedule program, etc. ...


How You Start
How You Start (Installation)

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

-	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 ...)

-	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).

-	Run the 'ShutDown NOW!© v1.2' shortcut or run SHDN.exe directly from its folder.

-	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! ...

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.

You can also copy the SHDN.INI file, shipped with ShutDown NOW!, into your Windows® directory. This will reset all settings to default, if you have troubles starting your system.

You can do this for example, by copying SHDN.INI from a boot diskette.

Windows NT™ v3.5x users:

Use UNINST.EXE (with the Reset option) or :

Create a shadow for the initialization file of SHDN (SHDN.INI), that you will find after the first execution of SHDN.EXE in your Windows® directory (e.g. C:\WIN95).

You will need it, if you choose to start ShutDown NOW!© without any dialog (Setup-Option!). - If you later want to enable the ShutDown NOW!© window you have only to change the entry:

[Controls]              to              [Controls]

Dialog=1                                Dialog=0


Known Problems  FAQ

Please print out this page at first!

Here is a list of the know problems I found and the questions you asked me.  Please report any incompatibilities, questions or remarks to my e-mail address!  Thanks.

Windows NT™ v3.5 and v3.51:

Why does Windows® shutdown/reboot/relog, if I click on the ShutDown NOW!© icon?

-	If the "ShutDown without Dialog" checkbox was enabled, Windows® will shut down without any warning, every time you start ShutDown NOW!© (from the desktop or from a shortcut)!

As I said before, it is a very dangerous option, because you have only two choices to disable that feature: Running UNINST.EXE and reset the settings  or editing SHDN.INI in your Windows® directory.

More about these possibilities to reset this option and what you have to change, you will find under How You Start (Installation) above this page.

Windows® 95:

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 task-list) 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!

Why are there two (one) ShutDown NOW!© entr(y)ies in my task-list?

-	If you use the Norton Navigator™ Task-List and if it is loaded every time you start Windows, then if ShutDown NOW!© is configured to start every time with Windows® and the option "Always start in SysTray" is combined with one of the timers, a second ShutDown NOW!© instance will be shown in the Task-List.

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™ Task-List. 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™ Task-List from loading at boot-up. You can also disable the second task-entry by exiting and restarting ShutDown NOW!©.

All:

What shall I do, if the timer countdown 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?

-	Copy the SHDN.INI file (from the recovery disk or from the SHDN archive) into your Windows® directory and overwrite the old one  or simply delete the old one.

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

-	I watched no problems when a shortcut of ShutDown NOW!© (SHDN.exe) was in the StartUp folder.  BUT: Please don't do that on Windows NT™ v3.5 or v3.51, because it might happen, that you enable the ShutDown without Dialog checkbox and you will be thrown out of the system every time!  In that case you can relog under a new name (e.g. Administrator  or another account) and remove the shortcut or delete the SHDN.INI file in your Windows® directory or start UNINST.EXE and reset the settings. (BE CAREFUL!)

It is recommended to use the "Always start in SysTray" option to start ShutDown NOW!© on system boot, if you are a Win95 or NT v4.0 user.


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, Execution of a program/file before shutdown, Initialization of harddrives before shutdown or which boot- and shutdown-logos are enabled on the Windows® system.

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 executed before shutdown

IN	= harddrives 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.

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

(Windows® 95 / NT v4.0 view)            (Windows NT™ v3.5x view)


The Pages and the Page Control

The page control enables you to switch between all 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.


The Save Button

The Save button is the left of the three buttons below the page control, at the bottom of the settings notebook.

It saves all current settings from all pages of the page control and closes the settings notebook.


The Default Button

The Default button resets all settings of all pages of the settings notebook.

It restores all options of every page to their standard, as if you have just installed ShutDown NOW!©.


The Cancel Button

With the Cancel button you undo any 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 was changed, then press this button to return to the main window of ShutDown NOW!© without saving any changes.


Always start in SysTray

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 list, the big bar at the bottom of the screen, which can be automatically hide or constantly be shown.

If "Always start in SysTray” 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 list  but Im sure that you will remark 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 two to eight of your own icons.  I will place some icon sets onto my WEB site during the next days too.

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


Start Centered

Check this checkbox, if you wish ShutDown NOW!©'s window coming up centered the next time you start the application and if its window is shown on the desktop.

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

This checkbox is also visible under Windows NT™ v3.5x.


Enable Hints

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 at 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 many pop-up hints or if you are an experienced user.

This checkbox is also visible under Windows NT™ v3.5x.


Shut down without Dialog

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

Be CAREFUL to enable this checkbox, because it causes ShutDown NOW!© to fulfill the chosen action of the Action DropDownListBox as soon as you click on ShutDown NOW!©'s program icon.

You will be warned, if you try to check this box and you can decide whether or not you want to check it at all.

To disable this effect, you have only to edit the "Dialog=1” to "Dialog=0” entry in the SHDN.INI file in your Windows® directory. Or you can use the UNINST.EXE program to restore all settings, as described under "How You Start” some pages above.


The Enable Timer Checkbox

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

If this checkbox is checked, ShutDown NOW!© always starts with the timer you selected underneath this box. Uncheck this box to disable all timers.


The Run at Startup Checkbox

Check this box, if you want ShutDown NOW!© always to start with a timer countdown.

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

How you can undo this setting, you can read under "How You Start”.


Shutdown at / Shutdown in Timers

Here you can select, if you want to shutdown at a chosen time (24-hours) or if you want to shutdown after the number of seconds you have typed into the edit field at the right.

The second interval (edit field) goes 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 from 3,600 seconds (1 hour) 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 these buttons at the up- or down arrows.

This way to adjust 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.

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 countdown timers as described under "Shutdown at / Shutdown in Timers" and "Adjust the Time" some pages above.

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

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 the execution of 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 at first, if you want to get displayed a file-selection-box!

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


Initialize all local Drives

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

If this checkbox is checked, a 0-byte file will be written and then erased on each of your local drives.

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

Otherwise some HD's are not fast enough, if their power was off, and the above message will never appear...

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.


Enable or disable Windows® 95 Logos

Here you can enable or disable all boot- and shutdown logos (there are one boot- and two shutdown logos in the system) of Windows® 95.

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 renamed to LOGO=0, if the correspondent checkbox is enabled.

All this is not be done under Windows NT™ (all versions) and the checkboxes are disabled!

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 window, 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 task-list 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..." from the menu that will appear, if you right-click on the tray-icon.


The (I)nformation Button

The Information button shows an animated window with an actual description of the ShutDown NOW!© registration, my address, e-mail and URL AND a calculation of prices for multi-user licenses AND a registration form, that you can print out.

Some printers do not support the (very uncomfortable) print-routines in Delphi®. (Because I wanted to reduce memory requirements of ShutDown NOW!©, I did not go the other way with QuickReport™. ... That's only an intern information...)

Therefore I have the same text written as an ASCII file, called ORDER.TXT, coming with ShutDown NOW!©.  So if you have difficulties to print out the form, please use the ASCII text. (Print it out from MS-DOS® or Windows®, using an editor.)


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, otherwise it will be enabled.

You can pause a running timer from the SysTray'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 (not running).

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

You can stop a running timer from the SysTray'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 the countdown progress in a graphical way.

It fills itself from left to right until the countdown, chosen from the timer options and started by the "ShutDown NOW!© button", reaches zero.


et cetera: ...

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


Registration

ShutDown NOW!© is shareware. - If you haven't yet read the license you should do it later. In addition you will find a short hint at here, how to get your own personal registration-key and what it will cost:

Single user version / license:

Life-Time-Registration:     US - $15.-   or   DM 20,-

(If you pay by sending a check, plus $ 5.- for exchange and bank transfer, if it is in US Dollars and from a foreign bank!)

Multi user- and machine license:

Please start ShutDown NOW!© and press the [image] button for information.  Then press the Registration Form >> button to calculate the price for the number of licenses you wish to order.

Fill out the Registration Form (you can also use the ORDER.TXT file, coming with ShutDown NOW!©) and print it out. Then send the form to my address and choose one of the following payment modalities:

Payment:

You can:

-	pay cash (only single licenses), or

-	pay with a check (e.g. include to in the registration form), or

-	transfer the money to my bank:

C. Stratz, PostBank Berlin, in Germany

BLZ 100 100 10, Account number: 1058 69 105

You will receive your key-number in a save and fast way: by Internet E-Mail! or on a postcard, or if you call me by phone (+49-30-8024157).  Please don't call me without sending a registration form (and money/check) at first !!!

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


Contact

Here you can contact me: ...

You reach me (Mo.-Su.):

Address:	Carsten Stratz

Berlepschstr. 136

D-14165 Berlin, GERMANY

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

E-Mail (NEW!):	cstratz@arco.met.fu-berlin.de

(daily supported)

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

(now with the latest ShutDown NOW!© version and other software)

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 places I'll send my programs to, is my own homepage for sure, and WinSite at ftp.winsite.com, or to my favorite local BBS (Germany):

ARCO Mailbox Berlin, +49-30-3268292 / 3227280 / 3268291 (15 * 28.8),

+49-30-3268297 (7 * ISDN)

Other sites (except my homepage) are:

ftp://ftp.is.in-berlin.de/pub/win/shutdown

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

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


ShutDown NOW!©  Shareware Software License

The software described here is distributed under the name:

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

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 my make archive copies of the software for the sole purpose of backing up my 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. Just as a book cant 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.

All paragraphs in this license are belonging to this software and its files.

The following license is valid for all users in all countries.

By using the software they agree to this license which is a part of the software, whether they have read it or not. Running the software, means to agree to this license.

1.) ShutDown NOW!© is shareware. - What you will get in return, if you register it:

SINGLE USER AND MACHINE LICENSE:

You have to register ShutDown NOW!© if you use it longer than 14 days! To register it with a unique key-number you only have to send a letter with $15 or DM 20,- and your name and address (and e-mail address) to the author, or you can transfer the money to the authors local bank. It is possible to pay cash, to transfer the money or to send a check or money order. - If you send a check, you will have to pay $5.- for exchange (foreign countries only).

You will receive your key number on postcard or by e-mail. - This number will be valid for all future versions of the program and is a personal number for each registered user.

MULTI-USER- AND MACHINE LICENSES:

You can order a multi user- and machine licensed version of the software by sending the appropriate order form. - Prices for the number of licenses you order are listed in the program. Simply click on the ' [image] '

for information and then on the 'Registration Form >>' button!

Only checks and money orders (transfers) are accepted, if you order more than a single license.

2.) No limitations!

You are allowed to use ShutDown NOW!© for a non-limited period of 14 days on a single computer. After the free period expires you are notified to register ShutDown NOW!©  but the program will still work as it did before, except showing some information.

3.) Send it around the world!

You are allowed to give the archive of ShutDown NOW!© (SHDNxxx.ZIP) with all files in it, as you received it, to whom ever you want.

It would be nice to copy it to CompuServe or some more Internet sites, because the last version was only spread in Germany, Canada and Italy.

4.) Don't hack it!

ShutDown NOW!© has several functions to prevent it from hacking. If you plan to hack it, you should be aware of them! -

5.) 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. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LAW PROHIBITS SUCH LIMITATION. FURTHERMORE, SOME STATES OR COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS LIMITATION AND EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

6.) 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.

7.) 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.

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.

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