ProgList (Program List) puts your Win 3.1 Program Manager items into
two alphabetical lists -- one for GROUPS and one for PROGRAMS.

Highlight a group to display its programs. Or pick "All groups" to
display all your programs in one big alphabetical list. Double-click
on a program to run it.

If you have lots of programs and groups, you'll find your programs
more quickly with ProgList.

When you use the keyboard, you can hit the right or left arrow keys
to move between the two listboxes. Keep hitting an item's first
letter to go to it quickly.

When ProgList starts, it uses current information from the Program
Manager .GRP files. If you use the Program Manager to add or delete
GROUPS or PROGRAMS while ProgList is running, you'll need to update
ProgList's information. Use "Update Groups" on ProgList's control
menu (or "Alt+U") to do this; this is easier than quitting and then
restarting ProgList. (If you just change programs in a given group,
you could instead switch ProgList to another group and then back to
this first group.)

I suggest that you install ProgList on the Program Manager and give
it a short-cut key (e.g. "Ctrl + Shift + L"). You can use this
short-cut key to switch to ProgList from within the Program Manager.

If you want to use ProgList as your main shell, change the "shell="
line in the "[boot]" section of your SYSTEM.INI file to refer to your 
PROGLIST.EXE file -- and then restart Windows. If PROGLIST.EXE is in
a C:\UTILS directory, then the line would look like this:

  [boot]
  shell=C:\UTILS\PROGLIST.EXE

If you use ProgList as your shell, you'll still need to call up the
Program Manager to change GROUPS or PROGRAMS. Use "Program Manager"
on ProgList's control menu (or "Alt+P") to do this.

For a much fancier "listbox" of programs, try my MOO 3.1 menu system. 
MOO has Windows and DOS versions that can run the same program menus.

I wrote ProgList in Turbo Pascal for Windows. I used some information 
from Neil Rubenking's article on the Program Manager file format in
PC Magazine (January 12, 1993). ProgChek works for Windows 3.1 -- and 
maybe later versions.

ProgList is a FREEWARE program by Harry Gensler (Philosophy
Department, Loyola University, 6525 North Sheridan, Chicago,
IL 60626).