HTOOLS v1.6 DESCRIBE.TXT FILE DESCRIPTION INFORMATION Last updated: April, 1995 This file includes sample descriptions which you may use to describe the hTools package. Disk Vendors and Distributors please refer to the VENDOR.TXT text file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Information: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File Name for BBSs: ---------------------- For consistency and to help users locate the files, please use the file name: HTLS16.ZIP If the program is compressed using some other file compression method, then please use the name "HTLS16" with the appropriate extension (PAK, ARC, LZH, ZOO, etc.). Keywords: ~~~~~~~~~ HTOOLS R2M HOTKEYS SHELL MENU FMLAUNCH FILEMANAGER LAUNCH FILE13 TASKMAN Category: ~~~~~~~~~ Windows Utilities Short Description: ------------------ Powerful utilities for Windows 3.1 and WFWG 3.11 Hot Key program launcher to attach applications to key strokes for access anywhere on the Windows desk top. File Manager Launch for running programs on unassociated files from File Manager. Replacement Task Manager with extra options. File 13 for drag and drop file delete. Includes install/uninstall program. ASP Author, Shareware $39 Long Description: ----------------- hTools v1.51 is a set of four utilities for Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups. hTools includes Hot Keys, File Manager Launch Extension, hTools Task Manager, and File 13. Hot Keys is a global hot key utility and program launcher which lets you launch your most often used programs and documents from anywhere in the Microsoft Windows environment. Hot Keys is accessed by clicking with the secondary mouse button on the desktop, or clicking on the Hot Keys icon. The icon may optionally not be displayed. This displays a pop up menu, which contains a list of items that you configure. The menu is fully configurable, with sub-menus, menu breaks, and separators. Setting up applications for Hot Keys is a breeze with drag and drop file support for File Manager, and you may also import existing program groups from Program Manager. A set of key strokes (the Hot Key) may be assigned to each item on the menu. This allows the application to be accessed from any other application. For instance, you may assign Ctrl + Alt + D to start an MS-DOS prompt. Besides supporting programs and documents, hot keys supports internal commands for such functions as exiting windows, or a run dialog box. Bailing out of windows can be as simple as pressing Ctrl + Alt + X. The File Manager Launch Extension is an add on menu to the Windows File Manager. This menu is fully configurable, and is used to launch applications not normally associated with your files. For instance, the Notpad application can be used on any selected file, and PIF editor can open on a selected PIF file. The extension supports defining accelerator keys to bypass the menu. The hTools Task Manager adds a free memory display, much like about box information in Program Manager. The hTools task list optionally will display the module name of each task, as well as a short cut key assigned to that task. It will also display the names of any hidden windows lurking around on your desktop. From the hTools Task Manager, you may switch to another windows, or end a task. Sometimes a hung application may refuse to be closed. By pressing the shift and control keys and clicking the end task button, you may terminate a task which refuses to close. The hTools Task Manager allows you to arrange desktop windows with a Cascade button, and a Tile button. The Tile button becomes a Tile Vertical button when the Shift key is pressed. You may also arrange the icons on your desktop with the Arrange Icons button. Press the shift key, and this button becomes the Minimize All button which turns all the open windows into icons. From the hTools Task Manager, you may also leave Windows with the Exit Windows button. Press the shift key, and this becomes the Restart Windows button. Hold down the Control key at the same as the shift key, and this becomes the Restart System button. If you need to start a program, you may press the Run button, which displays the run dialog box. This is similar to using the File|Run command from Program Manager or File Manager. However, this dialog box supports a history list of the last twenty command lines. File 13 is a application used to drop files to be deleted from the File Manager. These files go to a temporary location until the trash is emptied. Before then, these files may be restored. Files are dropped into the trash can using File Manager's Drag and Drop. Click on the file to be deleted in File Manger and drag until the cursor is over the File 13 icon and drop. The File 13 icon will change to indicate that there is a file in the trash. Open the File 13 icon to display the contents of the trash. File 13 can be configured to start and close with the File Manager. File 13 optionally uses multimedia sounds during certain operations. Registration Information: ------------------------- For complete user registration information please refer to the REGISTER.TXT text file, or the HTOOLS.HLP WinHelp hypertext file. Author/Publisher Information: ----------------------------- The R2M Software Company is a small software company owned and operated by Robert Mashlan. Please feel free to contact me Robert Mashlan at any time if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. I can be reached by mail at the following address: Robert Mashlan R2M Software Company 1520 S. Downing Seaside, OR 97138 USA I can also be reached by voice or electronically as follows: Voice: 1-503-738-0849 CompuServe: internet:rmashlan@r2m.com Internet: rmashlan@r2m.com