BurnIt
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A very simple program designed to run as a icon on your desktop. You can 
drag files from File Manager to the BurnIt icon, and they'll be deleted.

There are many such utilities available, and the more complicated ones 
have an "undelete" option built in to recover deleted files. BurnIt isn't 
burdened by such features. It's designed to be a fast and simple way to 
delete files, nothing more.

Much of BurnIt's code was based on a utility of the same name first 
published by Jeffry Richter in the May-June 1992 issue of Microsoft 
Systems Journal. I have made the following modifications:

- I removed the code to keep the icon on top of all other applications. 
Personally, I always find these "keep on top" utilities get in the way 
most of the time.

- I tweaked the icon painting code a little bit. In some cases, the 
background would not be repainted properly.

- I tweaked the actual icons slightly. No big deal.

- I fixed the deletion code to delete Read-Only, Hidden and System files. 
It'll do this *without* confirmation, so be careful.

- I added the ability for you to specify the WAV sound to play when files 
are deleted. To do this, add the following entry in the [sounds] section 
of your WIN.INI:

BurnItSound=<wav file name>,BurnItSound

You can then change the BurnIt sound using the "Sounds" applet in Control 
Panel.

BurnIt, and other utilities of its ilk, work best when combined with my 
FM_UTILS freeware File Manager extension DLL. This DLL allows you (among 
other things), to start up certain programs *with* File Manager, and shut 
them down when File Manager is shut down. If you don't have FM_UTILS, 
drop me a line at the E-mail address below, or look for it on your 
favorite BBS system.

Brad P. Smith
BPS Microconsulting Services
R.R. #2 - 777 Crozier Rd.
Oxford Mills, Ontario, Canada
K0G 1S0

E-mail: B.P.Smith@BIX.com