Launch 1.81 for Windows 05/11/91 (C) 1991 David Stafford CIS 72411,2670 or 76666,2542 MCI DSTAFFORD 361-6512 Kamakura NS Bldg 4-F Onaricho 4-16 Kamakura, Kanagawa 248 Japan Launch is the popular utility which lets you start programs directly from the Windows desktop without having to go through Program Manager. Your favorite programs are only one mouse click away! Installation is a snap- just copy Launch to your hard disk. Launch will create a default menu the first time it runs. You can install Launch in your WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI so it will load automatically. The online help contains more detailed instructions. Once Launch is installed just click the left mouse button once over the empty desktop. Your Launch menu will pop up automatically. Please feel free to distribute Launch to others. Just be careful and remember to include all three files (LAUNCH.EXE, LAUNCH.TXT and LAUNCH.INV) together. Launch is ShareWare. Please support my efforts and the efforts of all ShareWare authors. The cost is only $29.95 (4,000 yen in Japan). A form is available to print in the file LAUNCH.INV. When you mail your registration you will receive the latest 1.X version of Launch and a registration number (which will disable the reminder message which appears when Launch is started). Your registration will be valid for any minor upgrades. Support is available for registered users via CompuServe, MCI Mail or regular mail. Upgrade information ------------------- If you are upgrading from a version of Launch earlier than 1.4 then you must delete (or rename) your old LAUNCH.INI to let Launch build a new INI file for you. The reason is the file format changed from 1.3 to 1.4 and a misformatted INI file will only confuse Launch. Changes to 1.81 --------------- 1.81 is a maintenance release. A bug where (Arrange) performed the same function as (Cascade) has been fixed. Some programs were sending bogus keystroke messages through Windows which could pop up the Launch menu (only if the hotkey was not defined). I added a work-around for this. Double-clicking on the Launch icon no longer brings up help. Further optimization of Launch's code size. Changes to 1.8 -------------- There are many enhancements in this upgrade so please read the online help even if you are familiar with earlier versions of Launch. You will get the most out of Launch this way. Added hotkey support! You can now pop up the Launch menu with a hotkey. The hotkey is defined in the [Launch] section of LAUNCH.INI. For example: Hotkey=CTRL ALT L Added support for launching programs as maximized or minimized (iconized). You can even specify the exact screen location. Added [Startup] for better control over loading programs. Shortened (ExitWindows), (TileWindows), (CascadeWindows) and (ArrangeIcons) to (ExitWin), (Tile), (Cascade) and (Arrange). Added (ExitWin2) for people who want to get out of Windows without a prompt. Many hours of work went into optimizing memory usage in this release. Launch 1.8 adds a lot of new features but uses less RAM than 1.7! Changes to 1.7 -------------- Launch 1.7 adds the much-requested support of having the LAUNCH.INI file in the same directory as LAUNCH.EXE. Previously you had to put this file in the Windows directory. Improved shell support. Added memory and system resource statistics to the About box. Separated About box from Reminder box so that unregistered people could get the memory and system resources information. Added support to change directories before starting a program.