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WinShell is a freeware product and can be freely distributed.

For donation information see the Overview page in this help file.


WinShell - The Efficient Program Manager Replacement

•	Is based on Program Manager groups for displaying program information

•	Allows showing the items of the most often used group as icon buttons in the main window

•	Divides other groups into two categories: Programs and Resources

•	Displays groups related to these two categories in separate pull-down menus

•	Shows a list of actively running programs in the Tasks pull-down menu

•	Comes with a Task Manager replacement that allows to run WinShell instead of the Task Manager upon Ctrl-Esc

•	Supports instance management of application started from WinShell

•	Is FreeWare and was developed by the author for the heck of it

•	To keep things going and for the author to be able to afford compiler upgrades, a donation of $5 would be appreciated and should be send to:

Jens B. Junkermann

Otto-Volger-Str. 15

65843 Sulzbach

Germany


WinShell Menus

•	Tasks

-	Lists the tasks running on the machine

-	Run Command: allows running of additional commands that can be entered in a dialog box

-	Run Program Manager: quickly jumps into Program Manager for group maintenance

-	Exit WinShell: exits WinShell and Windows if WinShell is installed as the default Windows Shell

•	Programs

-	Includes an entry for each of your existing Program Manager groups

-	A cascaded pop-up menu shows the items associated with a given group

•	Resources

-	Lists the Program Manager groups that start with an asterisk ('*') in their name

-	Allows for keeping WinHelp files or similar documentation in a separate place (e.g. for quickly accessing programming information)

•	Options

-	Minimize on Use: if set, automatically minimizes WinShell on running a program

-	Refresh Groups: re-reads Program Manager groups into WinShell, to have group changes reflected in WinShell's menus

-	Sort Buttons: on default, WinShell uses the Program Manager ordering of items for the buttons it displays; with this option, alphabetical ordering of the items can be set

-	Set Button Group: allows changing the group for which buttons are displayed in WinShell's window

•	Help

-	WinShell Help: jumps into this help file

-	About WinShell: displays Windows memory and resource availability information


WinShell Buttons

•	Supports instance management of applications

•	Allows displaying of program name in a popup window

•	Single click with left button on one of the icons starts the application or gives control to the instance of the application that is already running (only if originally started from WinShell)

•	Single click while holding down the Ctrl-key will always start a new copy of the application

•	Holding down the right mouse button over any icon button will display the program title in a small pop-up window