Drive Toys
              Disk Drive Utilities for Windows and Windows NT

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                           by Daniel Di Bacco
                      Copyright (c)1997 Dinxware

Please refer to the file DRIVETOY.DOC for more complete information

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Contents

1. Features 

2. Distribution

3. Installation

4. Contacting the Author

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1. Features

The Drive Toys feature two disk-related utilities for Windows and 
Windows NT: DriveMenu and DriveX.

DriveMenu:

"DriveMenu" is utility that allows quick access to any drive on the 
system (local or network) by means of an icon on the Windows taskbar. 
It features a "Start"-style menu with icons to make recognition easier, 
and there are several options to allow the user to customize the menu.

DriveX:

"DriveX" is a shell extension that adds two additional pages to the 
Properties dialog for disk drives.

The "Volume Information" page contains detailed information about the 
selected drive including the volume serial number, compression state, 
cluster size, number of used clusters, number of free clusters, etc. 
Normally, you'd have to run Windows' ScanDisk or run CHKDSK from the 
command prompt to get this information. 

The "File System" page reports the file system used on the selected 
volume and displays the most significant characteristics of the file 
system. 

On partitions that use the FAT file system, you can let DriveX perform a 
storage efficiency analysis which shows how much of your drive is 
actually occupied by data, and how much "slack" (unusable space due to 
cluster size) the drive has. The results are clearly presented in the 
familiar "pie chart" format. 

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2. Distribution

The Drive Toys are FREEWARE. You may use them absolutely free for as long
as you like. The author does, however, retain all rights to the software.

You may make any number of exact copies of the original software and 
accompanying documentation and freely distribute these copies on disk or 
via electronic means. The copies must include the following files,
unmodified and in their entirety:

File            Size in bytes   Description     
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DRIVEMNU.EXE    39,936          DriveMenu executable file

DRIVEMNU.HLP    7,612           Help file providing context
                                help for the DriveMenu 
                                Properties dialog

DRIVEMNU.INF    2,104           Setup information file
                                for installing DriveMenu

DRIVEX.DLL      84,992          DriveX Shell Extension
                                Dynamic Link Library

DRIVEX.HLP      9,859           Help file providing context
                                help for the Drive
                                Properties pages

DRIVEX.INF      2,223           Setup information file
                                for installing DriveX

DRIVETOY.DOC    30,720          Documentation file in 
                                Word 6.0/WordPad format


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3. Installation

System Requirements:

Windows:    a 386 PC (or better) running 
            Windows 95 or higher

Windows NT: a 486 PC (or better) running 
            Windows NT 4.0 or higher

Installation:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 

The installation of the Drive Toys is described in detail in the file
DRIVETOY.DOC, a document which can be viewed with WordPad or Word for 
Windows 6.0 (or higher). Please follow the procedures outlined in this 
document carefully to ensure proper installation of the software. 

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6. Contacting the Author

Feedback is always welcome. If you'd like to comment on the program, 
submit suggestions for future releases or if you'd like to report 
a bug you've found, you can contact me at either of the e-mail 
addresses below:

dd@dinx.franken.de
dibacco@wiinf.uni-wuerzburg.de

or by postal mail:

Daniel Di Bacco
Dinxware
Huttenstr. 12
D-97072 Wuerzburg
Germany

Enjoy the Drive Toys!