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WELCOME to POWERTOYS
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UPDATED: 7/19/95.
This folder contains a series of "PowerToys"-- UI enhancements for
advanced Win95 users-- that can be easily installed on any recent build
of Windows 95.
These enhancements were developed by members of the Microsoft Win95 team,
and are now being made available to Win95 users at no cost. Note.. these are
not part of any shipping retail product at this point in time, and therefore
are not supported through any official support channels. Use "at your own risk".
The contents of this folder will be updated over time as we make enhancements
to the utilities you see here now, and as we add new utilities for people to
try out. Stop back every now and then and see what's changed.
Here's what's available now:
*** SEND TO ANY FOLDER
This utility adds an "Any Folder" entry to your win95 "Send To" menu. You can
then right-click on any file or directory, choose "Send To> Any Folder" and
type an MS-DOS path to move or copy the file into. High-end users who miss
the File Manager's Move and Copy dialogs will love Send To Any Folder.
*** FAST FOLDER CONTENTS
With this handy-dandy context-menu extension, when you right-click on any
folder or other container, you'll get a cascade menu that shows you all the
contents of that folder, one-level deep. It works on shortcuts-to-folders,
too.
*** QUICK CD
Quick CD is a taskbar notification icon that makes controlling audio CDs a
breeze. When an audio CD is in your drive, Quick CD gives you convenient
single-click play/pause control, a tooltip that tells you which track and
time you're on, and a right-click menu that provides commands for starting,
stopping, ejecting and moving around the tracks on your CD.
*** CABFILE VIEWER
You know those *.CAB files that you'll find on the Win95 CD and floppies?
(These are files containing one or more compressed files.) Well, with the
CABFILE Viewer shell extension, you can browse right into a CAB file and
see all of its contents, and perform normal shell operations on the files
inside.
*** ROUND CLOCK
This version of CLOCK.EXE takes advantage of win95's region windows, so your
analog clock will be round, just like a real clock would. (Note.. you just
need to copy this EXE to use the clock. No setup file is provided.)
*** EXPLORE FROM HERE
This is a simple custom command for all folders and containers that lets you
right-click and choose "Explore from Here" to get an Explorer window that has
the target folder as its root.
*** SHORTCUT TARGET MENU
Finally, you can get the properties for a shortcut's target just by
right-clicking the shortcut. This extension will add to any shortcut's
context menu the complete context menu of its target.
*** XMOUSE
For all of the CS majors in the audience-- make the focus follow the mouse
without clicking, a la X Windows. TIP: To turn it off, use the control panel.
*** QUICKRES
Here's one we wish was built right in: change DPI and bit depth without
rebooting. QuickRes lives in the notification area-- just click on it to
select your new display settings.
HOW TO INSTALL
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Installation of any of these is easy. First, copy down powertoy.exe and place
it in a new folder (e.g. powertoys) and run "powertoy.exe". Then, right-click
on the Setup Information file (INF file.. these look like a text file with a
little gear on them) for the extension you'd like to install, and choose the
INSTALL command. When you're done installing the extensions you want, you can
delete the folder. It's that easy.
Have Fun!
- the Win95 shell team