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| CleverZip URL: http://cleverness.com/cleverzip Registered price: Free; registered version $20 Rating:  You're welcome to use the CleverZip program as a free utility. It will unpack and allow you to browse your ZIP archives. However, if you want to create your own archives, you'll need to pay the registration fee. CleverZip works as a Shell Extension, which means that your primary access to the program is via your right mouse button. All your ZIP archives are automatically associated with the program, and you can view the contents of a ZIP file directly on your desktop or in Windows Explorer. Files can be copied from and to your ZIP files using drag-and-drop or via the clipboard.
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| File-Ex 98 for Windows 95/98 URL: http://www.cottonwoodsw.com Registered price: $50 Rating: File-Ex adds many file management functions such as find, copy, delete and so on, to the Open and Save dialogue boxes in any of your Windows programs. File-Ex recalls up to 100 of your favourite files and directories for each application, and will remember the last 25 files and directories used in each program. File-Ex's Find utility spans multiple drives and can use multiple file search specifications. The program comes optimised for MS Word and Excel, but you can use it in any application. It will allow you to use long filenames in old 16-bit applications.
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| File Mentor Lite URL: www.integratix.com Registered price: $50 Rating: File Mentor lets you save and retrieve files without knowing where the files are on your system, or what they're called. You use your choice of keywords, phrases, numbers or dates to manage and find your files. Whenever you create a new document (text, picture, spreadsheet etc), File Mentor steps in and organises how the file is saved. Then when you want to find the file again, all you need to do is to remember a single fact about it, and you will have it at your fingertips instantly. Although it's powerful, this program is very easy to use, so you can be up and running with it instantly.
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| Directory-2-HTML URL: www.shareware.com Registered price: Free Rating: Your file folders won't list files of a specific type, so that you can see what you have at a glance. This program checks your selected directory for files with the extension of your choice, then creates the list as an HTML file. You will see only the types you want: JPG, TXT or DOC, all hyperlinked so you can launch the file you want. The file size and other data are listed with each filename. You can add your own title, header and footer to the page.
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| Shorthand for Windows URL: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~lim/shorthand Registered price: $80 Rating: Shorthand improves your typing speed in almost all Windows applications, thereby increasing your productivity. You create abbreviations, which are then expanded as you type. This is the latest version of the program, with improved features. If you use Microsoft Word, you'll be able to use Shorthand in place of Word's AutoCorrect, and can transfer all your Word dictionaries to Shorthand, where they will work in all Windows applications, not just in Word. The program is easy to set up and use, and includes not only a comprehensive Help file, but also a tutorial, and several dictionaries which have been created for you. This means that you can get right to work with the program.
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| Getting to grips with Windows URL: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/win3x.htm Following this month's Windows 3.1 column these are the text files provided by microsoft, ww0787.txt and wg0788.txt, which give more details on adapting Windows for PC users with various disabilities
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| DOS DOS program should normally be run from the DOS prompt. Any links we have provided below are for Windows users to try running or installing the program in a DOS Window. If this fails to work however you will need to exit to DOS and try from there
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| 2Col: a compressed print utility URL: www.download.com Registered price: $35 Rating: 2COL will print two columns of 80 characters each on a single sheet of paper. The program supports most popular printers and works by suppressing unnecessary blank lines and ignoring page breaks. It averages four pages on one side of a sheet of paper. The program is easy to use, but it has a 33-page manual, which covers all its features.
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8.07 Registered price: $POA From: Thunderbyte Australia (07) 3204 5000, http://www.thunderbyte.com Rating: From our experience, one of the most reliable virus scanners around. Thunderbyte will detect all known viruses, plus guard against new and unknown viruses. For full protection and virus cleaning capabilities you will need to register, but the shareware version will alert you to any virus you may have and offer several options to getting rid of it.
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| WinZip URL: http://www.winzip.com Registered price: $45 Rating:  WinZip is the de facto standard in handling Windows archiving, and if effective archive management is important to you, you need this program. In this latest version, you can choose between the standard interface and the compression wizard, for those who are new to handling archiving.
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