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FloatMenu

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FloatMenu puts a very small, stay-on-top menu on the Desktop.

Use it launch up to 66 of your favorite programs or folders.

It can also be used as a line marker.

There are two FloatMenus to choose from, the old one(Win95/98/NT/2000)

or the new one(Win95/98 only). The new one displays time and monitors

resources with option to view a Resources meter and a Calendar.

Left-clicking on it brings up a menu of selected menu items,

while a right-click pops up an option menu.

FloatMenu initially appears in the upper-right-hand corner of the

Desktop, but you can move it wherever you like and save position.

Options to resize it, change color, save your preferences and position.

Install:

FloatMenu needs the VB6run with Service Pack 3 to be installed.

Also needs Iconmenu99.ocx, Comdlg32.ocx and Stkit432.dll,

included with this setup.

If you don't have the VB6run then download the VB6run at

http://www.mslm.com/free.htm

To install FloatMenu, double click Setup.exe and select a path

for it to be installed in.

FloatMenu doesn't make any entries or changes to the Registry

or System files.

New

There are two FloatMenus to choose from, the old one or the

new one. The new one(win95/98 only) displays time and monitors resources

with option to view a Resources meter and a Calendar.

The new one needs the Resource meter to be installed in your

computer for it to work.

Go to the Control Panel\Add/Remove Programs\ Windows Setup Tab,

double click System Tools and select System Resource meter to be

added.

Reinstall:

Select the Reinstall option in Setup.exe, be sure to reinstall in the same

directory as previously installed.

Close FloatMenu before installing.

Uninstall:

Right click FloatMenu and select "Remove from Startup",

then right click it again and select Exit, then delete the FloatMenu

directory.

To switch from one FloatMenu to another, reinstall the FloatMenu.

Instructions

 1- Select File or Folder to add to FloatMenu by clicking

     either "File Browse" or "Folder Browse" buttons, check

     that the correct  path is transferred to the top/right text box.

 2- Change the menu name as you please top/left text box,

     menu name is what will show in the menu.

 3- Then click the "Add To Menu" button.

 Examples how it should like when added:

 Notepad<C:\Windows\Notepad.exe

 To have FloatMenu open a directory, it should look like this:

 Windows<C:\Windows

 The character  <  is a separator for FloatMenu to distinguish

 and separate name and path.

 4- To remove items, delete the line in the large text box and

     remove spaces between lines.

 5- Click Sort Menu to sort items in alphabetical order.

    Note: After sorting alphabetically you can place your

    most favorites anywhere you like manually.

 6- To add separators between menu items:

 example on how to add a separator after Notepad,

 Notepad<C:\windows\Notepad.exe

 Notepada<@

 The Notepada<@ will be a separator, notice the added letter

 "a"  to Notepad so it will fall alphabetically after Notepad.

 The character @ tells FloatMenu to make a separator.

 7- Example to add a URL to the menu:

 MSLM<http://www.mslm.com

 Microsoft<http://www.microsoft.com

 But it will not show an icon, point it to an Internet

 shortcut to the URL in order to show an icon.

 Note: For DOS program, point FloatMenu to a shortcut of the

 DOS program instead of the EXE, so it will show the MS-DOS

 icon, otherwise it will show a generic icon.

Once you have added the all items and clicked Save and Exit,

that will restart FloatMenu with 2 second wait.

There is no work around that at the time being, the OCX wouldn't

refresh an icon menu unless you restart the program.

To add FloatMenu to the Startup folder, right click it and click Add to startup,

to remove it click Remove from Startup.

To move FloatMenu, drag and drop it, grab the very far right side of

it with the mouse, and drop it. Doing that would not open the menu.

To open the FloatMenu, click on 80% of the left side of it.

All shortcuts are saved in Menu1.dat and and preferences in Pref.dat

in the FloatMenu directory.

Other features:

Right click the FloatMenu, select and experiment with many options.

You can make it as a  line marker, or half Line marker.

Give the line the Focus and  press Alt+D to bring the line down,

Alt+U to bring it up or drag and drop it.

Set color desired and position desired, right click the FloatMenu and

click save Position, size and color, next time you start computer or

FloatMenu it will popup in the selected position and color.

Or Right click and select Reset, it will reposition itself to selected

position.

FloatMenu now executes every thing including Dialup networking,

but don't add  MyComputer, Recycle Ben.

Right click FloatMenu and select Open to browse and open any

other program not in the FloatMenu.

New

There are two FloatMenus to choose from, the old one(Win95/98/NT)

or the new one(Win95/98). The new one displays time and monitors

resources with option to view a Resources meter and a Calendar.

The new one needs Win95/98 Resource meter to be installed in your

computer for it to work.

Go to the Control Panel\Add/Remove Programs\ Windows Setup Tab,

double click System Tools and select System Resource meter to be

added.

Right click it and select to view the Calendar or Resources Meter.

You can pull the Calender from the bottom left hand corner and resize

it then click File\Save size.

To switch from one FloatMenu to another, renistall the FloatMenu.

ClipIt

ClipIt doesn't automatically copy the clipboard, you have to

simply click it when you want to copy the clipboard.

New: Now copies the clipboard in richtext.

It becomes handy when you are copying notes or surfing the

Internet, you can quickly add as you please a URL, address

or any thing else rather than saving it somewhere and waste

your time looking for it.

Every time you start ClipIt, it will check the time and date stamp

on a file called Date.txt, if Date.txt is older than 24 then it will

delete and recreate a new Date.txt, save your yesterdays notes

and name it with today's date,

e.g. May15.rtf, then creates new ClipIt.rtf to save your today's

notes and inserts current date.

To view your notes, click ClipItView icon.

To view older notes in ClipItView , click the scroll bar in the top right

hand corner file box, it will open and select your daily notes per date.

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FloatMenu is a Freeware

Copyright © 1998/99/00. All Rights Reserved

Theodore Fattaleh author, programmer and publisher.

All Program Names are Registered Trademarks of

their Respective Owner.

http://www.mslm.com

twf@flash.net

2000@msn.com

2000ted@csi.com

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