Network Button Bar Copyright 1994 Cooper Collier Legal Stuff Network Button Bar is not free. I spent many hours and a lot of brand new four letter words on this thing. I am asking a very small fee for this product. Less than most people spend on coffee in a week. Please register I really need the money. My wife is ready to kill me for buying all this computer stuff. Registration is $15 for one and $5 for each additional license at time of initial order only. If you have 10 computers you need to register 10 copies. That's like $60. Very cheep considering that 10 upgrades to any Microsoft product would cost you $800. Upgrades will be free. I will also send you demo's of any new software I create and I will always give prior customers a break on new stuff. Send your registration to: Cooper Collier 6620 Stella Place Anchorage AK. 99507 Please remember to include your name and address etc. so I can send you your registration and registered disk. Introduction As the systems manager of a medium sized company, it seemed that I was spending a major portion of my day reconnecting computers to the network. Everytime a computer would lose a network connection the user would come to me for help. No matter how many times I showed them they still needed help. Sound familiar! I searched the computer nets, but couldn't find an application that would simplify network connections. So I made one. Once configured, network connections are a click away. Network Button Bar will even tell you if a connection is lost and flag the lost connection to make it easy to reconnect. Another big benefit is it uses hardly any windows resources. The windows interface for the network at my office, uses 20% or more windows resources. Requirements Network Button Bar runs under Windows. There is not a DOS version and I have no plans to develop one. Sorry DOS is going the way of the dinosaur and tandy. NBB requires vbrun300.dll to run. If you do not already have this file you can download the full version or just download the vbrun300.dll. Installing vbrun300.dll is a good idea since many windows programs require it and most programmers do not include it on distribution disks, because its fairly large. NBB has been tested with 10Net. 10Net is a peer-to-peer netbios network. While I have not been able to test it on other systems, I am sure it will work with most any network, especially netbios based networks. It will definitely work with Window for Workgroups. I am not sure if it will work with Novel. I suspect not and since I do not have a Novel system to play with, I cannot test it. NBB will not hurt your network. At the worst it will lock up your local computer. This has not happened to me and I can see no reason that it would. But heck life's full of surprises, ask my wife. Installation Run the setup program. Tough huh. If you are running 10net, you will probably want to edit the win.ini and take the 10net.exe out of the "load"= line. That will get rid of that memory hog front end. You will also want to configure any plot queues on the network to not notify when print jobs are complete, or the 10net front end will load everytime you print. Users of other networks may want to do similar things. E-mail me if you have questions. Configuring Sorry configuring must be done manually. I could not figure how to get this thing to browse for network resources. Toggle the config button on; then click on the button you wish to configure. The network path is normally \\$$$$$$\$$$$$$ format. Your network may be different. If your the system manager and wish to install this on several computers, you can configure one computer then copy the ccnet.ini file from the windows directory to all the other computers.