Thank you for trying QuiClick, a customizable tool bar that helps you keep all of your most used Windows applications right at your fingertips. With QuiClick you can define up to 25 buttons to be used to launch any Windows application that you choose including some special functions. You can make a horizontal or vertical tool bar and place it anywhere on your screen. You might try lowering Program Manager by the height of QuiClick and putting QuiClick above Program Manager. Or turn on Always On Top to keep your Tool Bar visible at all times. QuiClick was designed to be as small and unobtrusive as possible. It is NOT filled with fancy graphics, gauges, and icons that are of questionable usefulness and unnecessarily take up precious screen real estate.
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Main Tool Bar
The Main Tool Bar consists of a QUIT button, a SETUP button , the date and time (if turned on), the Tool Bar Locater, the launch buttons, and a minimize button.
Quit Button
This button will terminate QuiClick and remove it from the screen.
Setup Button
The Setup Button will display a Title menu that will allow Button Setup (see paragraph below for details), display of Registration Information, and display of this Introduction document.
Tool Bar Locater
This is a small icon that has four arrows pointing in all four directions and is used to move the QuiClick Tool Bar around on the screen. Actually, there may be other places on the tool bar that can be used to drag it around but the Locater is always available. Merely click on the icon, and holding the mouse button down, drag it.
The Launch Buttons
Click once on any of the displayed launch buttons to start an application or execute a function.
The Minimize Button
This button will minimize the Tool Bar into an icon.
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Using the Button Setup Window
You get to the button setup screen by clicking the SETUP button on the Tool Bar. This will display the Title Screen from which you should choose the Button Setup option. On the Button Setup Screen there is a set of 25 push buttons that can be defined. Merely click on one of the push buttons and fill in the Button Text and the Program to Launch fields. This can be done with the help of the Special Functions List Box and/or the drive/directory/file boxes. The Special Functions List Box contains some of the most commonly used Windows applications plus some special functions. Just choose one from the list and the button will be defined automatically. If the program that you wish to launch is not listed, you can use the Drive/Directory/File boxes to browse your disk drives. Once you have chosen the one that you want, type a description into the Button Text Field if necessary. If you want to undefine a button, choose it and click the REMOVE button. When you have defined all the needed buttons (which do not have to be consecutive, by the way) press the Ok Button. All button information is saved in a QUICLICK.INI file in your windows directory.
If you want to switch the order of some buttons, turn on Button Switch Mode. When in this mode you can drag a button to a new location and it will be switched with the button currently there. This is useful if you want to add a button definition in the middle of the Tool Bar.
Special Functions
There are a few special functions in the Special Functions List Box. Windows Exit, will immediately exit Windows without asking if you are sure the way Program Manager does. There is also Win. Restart which will exit Windows and restart it. Reboot will reboot your computer. System Info will show some vital statistics about your Windows session similar to Program Manager's About option. And Browse will allow you to browse through your disks looking for a program to run.
Restrictions
Non-Windows applications are NOT fully supported in this version of QuiClick. That does not mean that they won't work however. Some will work just fine. On the other hand, some will lock up your system. You may want to experiment cautiously to determine which will work and which ones will not. We have tested a number of non-Windows applications and found that the majority are well-behaved and work with no problems.
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If you use it, please register your copy of QuiClick. You will receive a serial number and notice of new versions of QuiClick and other Shareware programs produced by Kempton Software. Please do not forget to do this so that we can afford to continue to produce software that does not cost you an arm and a leg. Shareware is a great way to try software before you buy it. We take the risk that you will actually pay for it so that you do not have to take the risk of buying bad software in a glitzy box.
