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TouchPro V1.2
Copyright (c) 1995-96 JD Design
All Rights Reserved
What is TouchPro?
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TouchPro is a Windows 95 extension that allows you to modify or "touch", any,
or all of a file's time & date values. TouchPro integrates seamlessly with
Windows 95 and appears as an extra dialog box in addition to a file's normal
property pages. You can modify multiple file's time & date values by using a
multiple selection and "Touch" entire selected directory trees.
Installation
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TouchPro is supplied as a compressed file archive. Copy the compressed file to
an empty floppy disk or new sub-directory on your hard disk & extract the
files. When you have uncompressed the supplied file, you should have the
following files in addition to the original:
TouchPro.dll The TouchPro Shell Extension DLL
TouchPro.doc WordPad documentation
TouchPro.txt Text documentation
TouchPro.inf The Setup Information File
Select the TouchPro.inf Setup Information File in an Explorer window and
choose File, Install, or right click on the file and choose the Install menu.
Installation is quick, merely involving copying of the files to the target
location on your machine and modification of the relevant registry
information. TouchPro is now ready to use.
How Do You Use It?
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Select the files that you want to alter the timestamp on in an Explorer
window.
Display the properties by using the File, Properties menu, or right click and
choose the Properties menu item.
With TouchPro installed you will see an extra "Touch" page in the properties
dialog.
Click on the "Touch" tab to use TouchPro.
TouchPro enters the current date & time as a default, and allows you to alter
them to whatever you want.
To set the file timestamps just select the file time types that you want to
change by clicking the appropriate check boxes, and use the "Touch Now"
button.
Note
----
The OK, and Apply buttons on the main Property Page dialog do not perform the
touch operation.
The file's Last Accessed time will change to the current date & time when you
touch any of the time & date values. Because any file access can alter the
Last Accessed time, it may be difficult to ascertain that this feature works
as some Windows 95 shell features access some types of file to determine
context sensitivity.
FAT file systems can not have files dated before 1 January 1980. TouchPro does
not attempt to catch this particular circumstance as Win32 allows dates before
this, and future file systems may permit this obscure feature. If you
currently try to set the time & date to a value before 1 January 1980,
TouchPro reports the operation has failed in the same as if the file were
read-only.
FAT file systems have a time resolution of 2 seconds.
Limitations
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Time format is currently 24hr format only.
TouchPro can only alter the "modified" time value for files stored on Novell
Netware drives.
Removal
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Use the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs item. Select the TouchPro item
(listed as "Touch Property Page Extension") and click the Add/Remove button.
Contact
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If you have any questions, you can contact us at:
100524.3072@compuserve.com.
Please take a look at our web site to see the services we offer and download
our other free software utilities.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jdd
If you need help, or have any suggestions for improvements to any of our
utilities, then please contact us via Email. It's always good to hear from
people using our products so why not let us know how you find the utilities
anyway?
Thanks
JD Design
162 Mow Cop Road
Mow Cop
Stoke-on-Trent
ST7 4NH
England