Copyright: CopyRight 1996/97 Theodore Fattaleh


Contents
MiniApps

      For Win/95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

•	    About

•	    Legal Agreement

•	    Install, Reinstall and Unistall

•	    MiniApps


MiniApps

MiniApps

MiniApps brings you thirty two useful applications, all in one install.

Find 25 in MiniApps and 7 in MiniApps2

Alarm

lets you set up to six alarms in a 24-hour period.

Each can play the sound of a ringing telephone, one time, seven times,

or continuously and display a customizable message when it goes off.

You can choose color, position and save.

You can also set quick alarm, configure it to go off in one

to 99 minutes from current time.

Double click Alarm and select Help from Menu for more help.

AlphaBook

Click F1 or Help\Help to read about AlphaBook.

AlphaBook saves contents of A to Z and 1 to 3 in 28 RTFs,

All 28 RTFs are saved in the AlphaBook directory, named Alpha(*).rtf,

where  *  is the button names A to Z and 1 to 3.

e.g: AlphaA.rtf, AlphaZ.rtf, Alpha2.rtf.

Type any word in the upper text and it will automatically scroll

to the letters you typed, click Find Next or F3 to find next.

Click File\Sort Alphabetically to sort text in alphabetic order.

Click Buttons\Change Button Name, to change buttons 1, 2 and 3.

AttriBat

If you  restore a backup from MS-DOS, then files that

have the Read-Only, Hidden and System attributes will

not be restored from backup unless you set their attributes

to Normal.

That is also true if you use a DOS unzipping software, they have switches

to restore Hidden, Read Only and System but will not overwrite a

Read-Only file or folder.

AttriBat.exe will search the hard drive for files and folders that have

Read-Only, Hidden and System attributes and make 2 batch files.

Click Help\Help or F1 in AttriBat for help.

BlockIt

Win95 only.

BlockIt doesn't work in NT, it can't block the Ctrl+Alt+Del in NT.

Once activated, it suppose to cover the whole screen including the Task bar.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Alt+Tab and Escape wouldn't work.

While BlockIt is on, if you restart computer by turning the electric switch

off then it will come back on and cover screen.

To be on the safe side, backup registry first because if you got locked

out then you will not be able to get in unless you delete the Lockit.dat in

the BlockIt directory from the Command Prompt Only or restore from

a Registry backup.

Once you execute it, double click or right click the gray area and

select Exit  if no password already selected, otherwise you have

to enter password.

To block computer you need to enter password, double click

or right click gray area and select Change password,

you will be prompted to enter old Password,

click OK if no old password exist,

you will be prompted again to enter new password,

there be sure to right down password and enter it (case sensitive).

If you forget password then you will be left out unless you restore as

explained above.

Suggest to use a simple password to start with.

If you forgot password, BlockIt will let you in the first 10 uses,

after three times entering password.

Don't worry about it as long you know the password or you didn't

enter any passwords and remember to double click the gray area.

I would print the above before executing it.

Calculator

Is a simple Calculator that views calculation in a scrolling window.

Click Help\Help or F1 in Calculator for help.

Calendars

There is two calendars supplied, take your pick.

When browsing other months or years, it doesn't change the computer

date, contrary to the Calendar supplied with the operating system,

which could get you in trouble if accidentally it changed the computer

month or year without noticing it.

Click on the year or month to select other years or months.

ChangeRes

Change resolution was made because the old Change resolution found

in the web doesn't work in Win98.

To change Video resolution, depends on font used, video card and

resolution used, a computer restart is not always necessary.

If you see that ChangeRes requires a restart for every resolution

change then ChangeRes is not the best one for you to use.

Look for a different one, each behave differently.

Color, RGB Color Converter:

Read color values.

Click Help\Help or F1 in Color for help.

Drive Info

Select from Combo Box to get summary of each drive, drive info supports

up to 12 hard drives.

Note: This is a new DrvInfo, old DrvInfo that uses MsChart discontinued,

MsChart.ocx no longer needed, you can delete it from the Windows\System

directory if not used by other applications.

There are two Drive info now:

- Drive Info 95, is for Win95 that recognizes hard drives less than 2 GB in size.

- Drive Info 95b+, is for Win95/98/NT that recognizes hard drives larger than 2 GB

  in size.

  One day I will try to combine them together.

Files Inventory

Files Inventory is made so you can have files in a directory

saved in a text or printed.

Simply click browse to the directory, select to list in 2 columns or

with date and size and click the List Files button.

Once listed select File\Print or File\Save As to save it in a text.

IcoView

What makes IconView better than any icon viewer is, when you

click the selected icon it views it in the Taskbar and the

Systray. Also you can view all icons in a directory.

Icons looks different if viewed in the Systray, Taskbar selected

or Taskbar not selected.

Click Help\Help or F1 in IcoView for help.

IcView

IcView is different from IcoView.

IcView is a mini single icon viewer,

select Associate IcViewer from MiniApps in the Startmenu,

browse to Icview.exe then click Create Association.

Any time you right click an icon, there will be a View option

in the context Menu.

LFN Backup and Restore

Unless you know the LFN(long file names) for every SFN (short file name),

its impossible to guess what the original Long file name is unless

you have a backup that have stored both DOS SFN and Windows LFN

of each file and directory, also knows what the original path, then it can

be restored from backup to the original path by renaming the SFN to LFN.

Click Help\Help or F1 in LFN for help.

Make Shortcut

It makes shortcuts to programs anywhere.

Shortcut recognizes non English installed Win95/98/NT operating

system and makes shortcut to them.

Click Help\Help or F1 in Make Shortcut for help.

Move

Don't under estimate this little utility, it moves large folders,

mutli files and folders.

After installing MiniApps, execute it so it will put the Move in the Context Menu.

Any time you want to move  file(s) or folder(s),

select file(s) or folder(s) and right click them, select Move.

There you can select to move selected files or folders or just copy only.

Also there is an option to make a new directory.

If you have Win98 or IE40 installed, you can use Move to manipulate

the StartMenu, right click any item in the StartMenu, select SendTo then Move.

In Move, browse to the destination directory, destination path has to appear

in the "To" window.

Network:

Enter Computer name and drive letter and click the Network button, it

will connect the local computer to the Network drive.

In the "to" window, network path has to be a UNC path,

e.g.

\\computer name\drive letter(no Collin)\Directory name if any.

\\Joe\c\Misc

Don not try any other way, it will not work.

Or select the mapped drive from the Drive selector and it will

automatically retrieve the UNC path and connect to the Network

computer drive.(don't click the Network button so you can browse

through the mapped drive).

Transferred path has to be in UNC format using the actual physical

drive letter name.

Don't click the Disconnect Net button, unless you are having

network connectivity problems or want to disconnect from the

other computer drive.

MyNotes and MyNotes Lite

MyNotes, MyNotesL and MyNotes Lite.

MyNotes have 15 pages to save notes in, MyNotesL opens the first

two pages of MyNotes for quick open.

MyNotes Lite is a lite version independent on its own, have two note pages

to save notes in.

Click Help\Help or F1 in MyNotes or MyNotes Lite for help.

OCX Fix

To be used if you get errors that the OCX is not registered correctly.

Click Help\Help or F1 in OCX Fix for help.

Open

Click Open, to browse and open any program you like.

Open Folder

Opens any folder.

It has been improved Dec 7, 1998

US Area and International calling codes

Type any state name or area code number in the upper left window

and it will scroll down to the country or area code of that state.

Click the Country button, type any of the World's country name or

country number in the upper left window and it will scroll to the country.

Sort Lines Alphabetically

Sorts text lines alphabetically

Click Help\Help or F1 in AlphaSort for help.

SubInfo

SubInfo, stands for "Submission Information"

Stays on top and saves all your personal, shareware or company info.

It saves you from having to type info every time with the possibility of

making mistakes.

Once you have entered all information in SubInfo, clicking the button

copies the content of the corresponding text to the clipboard,

all you have to do is paste it in the submission form.

Click Help\Help or F1 in SubInfo for in detail instructions.

With the new SubInfo version 2.0, you can save information on many

programs or person's information in one SubInfo.

Click "Prog" in the menu and select "Add Program", give it a name

then it will prompt you for an icon if you wish to change icon for

each program or person info..

Resources and Swap file Meter(RSFM)

Resources Monitor, Clock and a Calendar (RM)

You can get rid of the clock in the Systray using the Resources

Monitor. RM is a very small utility, sets OnTop viewing the

time and monitor resources.

RSFM shows free System, User and GDI resources, gages will turn

yellow if free resources becomes less than 34% and

turn red if drops below 16%.

Also shows SwapFile usage which is the percentage of the swap file

Win386.swp size compared to the free hard disk space the file is located in.

Shows size of the Win386.swp file and the percentage of the free

drive space.

Right click Resource Meter and select Help for more info.

Stay On Top

Click Options\Release Stay On Top to release from being on Top.

Click Options\Double vertical to view two vertical pages.

Click Options\Double horizontal to view two horizontal pages.

Click Options\Single page to view a single page, it will retain

 text in the hidden text window until you clear it.

Click Options\Insert line marker or Options\Remove line marker.

"Open to Page 1" or "Save As Page 1"

Opens and saves Text or RTF files to the first text window which is the

main page, the top one if showing two horizontal pages and the left one

if showing two vertical pages.

"Open to Page 2" or "Save As Page 2"

Opens or saves Text or RTF files to the second text window which is the

secondary page, the bottom one if showing two horizontal pages and the

right one if showing two vertical pages.

Task Scheduler

Run tasks at schedule time and day, also works as an Alarm with built in

sound. Please click Help\Help in the Task Scheduler for more.

Win9x Config

Win Me, Win98, Win95 OSR2b, Win95 OSR2c and Win95 with IE40 installed

tips and bug fixes.

Click Help\Help or F1 in Win9x Config for help.

MiniApps2

Clean Startup

Backup and remove all from the Startup folder, Registry

Run and Registry RunServices, restart computer to get a clean start

so you can run Defrag and backups with no errors or to trouble shoot

startups. Then you can restore removed items, restart computer to restore

all items and computer to original state.

End Tasks

You can end task all running programs in one shot.

MyNotesA

Similar to MyNotes above but complete different.

Make Sub Directory

Adds "Make Sub Directory to the context menu where

you can easily make a new directory.

Make Win Me Boot Disk

Makes a Win Me Boot Disk in Win Me.

Check Spell

Copies clipboard when you open it, checks spelling in English/US,

English/British, Dutch, and Spanish.

Also English Thesaurus.

Stop Watch

Use it as a stop watch, countdown or clock.

Y2K

All programs are Y2K ready


Legal Agreement

THE LEGAL AGREEMENT

NO LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES

In no event shall the publisher, the author, nor their suppliers be liable

for any damages whatsoever {Including, without limitation, damages for loss

of business profits, business  interruption, loss of business information,

or any other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use of, or inability to use

this product, even if being advised of the possibility of such damages.

Although some state jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation

of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation

still apply to you. It is your responsibility to read the readme.txt file

before installing.


About
MiniApps

MiniApps

Copyrights © 1997/98/99/00/01. All Rights Reserved.

  Theodore Fattaleh author, programmer and publisher.

  All Program Names are Registered Trademarks of their

  Respective Owner.

  All these programs are free, no registration required.

Send an Email to be notified for updates.

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   My Email addresses:

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   2000ted@csi.com


Install, Reinstall and Unistall

Win/95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Notes:

If you have a command line in the Autoexec.bat to delete Win9x

temporary files in the C:\Windows\Temp upon startup then the VB6run

update will not take affect if it prompts you to restart computer because

the computer DLLs are outdated.

Remove the line from the Autoexec.bat when you are installing programs

that requires a reboot.

INSTALLATION

There are two zip files in Miniapps.zip:

The VB6run, unzip it to a temporary directory and install it by running

Setup.exe.

Then unzip miniappsu.zip to another temporary directory and install it

by running Setup.exe.

REINSTALL

Unzip miniappsu.zip to another temporary directory and install it

by running Setup.exe.

Select the "Reinstall" button if you are reinstalling to a previous

installation.

Take care  to see that the correct path to the previous installation is

shown in the path window.

When reinstalling, don't delete the previous {older} MiniApps directory.

Merely selecting the "Reinstall" command, it will

update and replace all files and recreate any missing folders.

UNINSTALL:

To remove {uninstall} MiniApps, run the "Uninstall Unwanted

Programs" found in the MiniApps shortcut in the Start Menu

and click the Remove All button.

UNINSTALLING the VB6run version: (NOT RECOMMENDED)

To Un-install, go to the Control Panel\Add Remove Programs, scroll

down to the VB6run and click uninstall.

If you uninstall the VB6run, then you can't run programs programmed

with Visual basic, suggest strongly to keep it installed.