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- ********************* NOTICE - NOTICE **************************
- To conform to SIMTEL20 and Garbo requirements, the following
- file name changes have been made by artch@mitre.org.
-
- File name in archive <---------------> File name in documents
- ACESS201.TXT <---------------> ACCESS.TXT
- ACESD201.ZIP <---------------> ACCESD.ZIP
- ACESS201.ZIP <---------------> ACCESS.ZIP
-
- ********************* NOTICE - NOTICE **************************
-
- Download ACCESS.ZIP if you do not have SHELL.DLL. Miscrosoft
- Windows 3.1 Beta Testers should download ACCESD.ZIP. ACCESD.ZIP
- is compiled using the Windows 3.0 compiler and imports
- Microsoft's SHELL.DLL, not included, for drag drop testing in
- the Windows 3.0 and 3.1 environments. If you don't know what
- SHELL.DLL is or means: Download ACCESS.ZIP; because ACCESD.ZIP
- will NOT launch for you. If you don't have SHELL.DLL, don't
- worry. This means that Accesses will be ready for you when
- Windows 3.1 is released... Because you'll have SHELL.DLL with
- Windows 3.1!
-
- Accesses Version 2.1 has many enhancements designed specifically
- for Norton Desktop that other users can use!
-
- Accesses is bug free again, at least Version 2.1. I apologize
- for the problems that were installed when I rushed thru the
- Norton Desktop fixes before and during the holidays... Boy,
- I made a mess of 1.1 and 1.1A. Because of the holidays,
- neither 1.1 or 1.1A were beta tested. I learned!
-
- Accesses Version 2.1 will now dial your modem for voice
- calls on your phone... Talk about accessing Windows...
-
- The primary feature of Accesses benefits those of us who
- hate to keep dragging windows to specific positions. Accesses
- moves the windows to where you want. I thought about calling
- Accesses "The Juggler" or maybe "Windows's Jugular" (not a
- spelling error).
-
- ACCESSES is a MUST program for Windows users.
-
- Accesses is addictive. Launch programs from any program and
- Accesses will place that program in your preset startup
- position. It doesn't matter if that program was closed in
- the wrong position the last time you ran it.
-
- If you hate dragging windows to your normal locations, Touch
- Accesses with the right mouse button, then touch any window,
- even a DOS window for 386 systems, and the window will be
- placed in your preferred window position or any of 8 user
- configurable "generic" positions.
-
- How much programming do you have to do? None. You move a
- window and say save this! But you do have to read Accesses's
- Tutor, about 5-10 minutes; because Accesses is a unique
- one-of-a-kind Windows program.
-
- ******** PLACING AND CLOSING WINDOWS ********
-
- Accesses replaces your Windows Task Manager with a program
- that does much more than switch between applications. You
- can select 1, 2,..., up to ALL of your windows from the
- Accesses Task Manager and have them:
-
- 1. Closed.
-
- 2. Placed in their default positions.
-
- 3. Minimized, Hidden
-
- 4. Split the screen. Have one show on the Top half and
- the other on the Bottom half of your screen
-
- 5. Moved to overlapping Quadrants on your screen, top
- right, top left, bottom right, bottom left
-
- 6. Moved to top right, top left, bottom right, bottom
- left, right half, left half, maximized, minimized,
- tiled, cascaded, above icons, arrange icons, hide, swap
- apps and icons,...
-
- 5. Shot? Well, almost. With Accesses you can destroy
- some windows that won't close; although, this is a
- non-standard exiting procedure for most windows;
- however, this is a windows procedure.
-
- All of this is easily configurable. (Note: Version 2.1
- significantly enhances this feature.) You decide what Top
- half means. You decide what Default means. You move a
- window to the position that you are defining and tell
- Accesses that's what you want defined for Top Half, or
- that's where you want all of your Notepad's to start up,
- except you want "Notepad - WIN.INI" to always start up here,
- and "Notepad - SYSTEM.INI" to start over there, and Winword
- to start up there,... Or you shoot the window (destroy).
-
- What if they are already started up and 3 hours later your
- screen is a mess. Select one or all the windows and tell
- Accesses to put them back to where you wanted them.
-
- What if you don't want to define a window's position. For
- example, you are testing a program downloaded from a
- bulletin board. Launch that program; touch Accesses pop-up
- window with the right mouse button; select one of 8 generic
- positions that can be used for all applications; touch the
- window you want moved. This is easier to do than to
- explain. Its fun to do as well.
-
- Up to a ridiculous 1024 window positions can be defined;
- although I haven't seen a need for defining more than 100
- positions. I mean, you normally want your Windows for
- particular programs in one spot, but occasionally you want
- one to always start up in a different spot when it has a
- particular document.
-
- How hard is this to set up? So easy that Accesses does the
- 1st initialization when you 1st start Accesses. Before you
- start Accesses for the 1st time, the README.TXT file asks
- you to launch and place programs to where you want them to
- start up. This way Accesses already has this information
- when it 1st starts. How about adding more afterwards.
- Place those windows and ask Accesses to save those too.
-
- ******** SAVING FOLDERS ********
-
- Accesses will save up to 10 different folders and each
- folder can have up to 20 programs included in it. A folder
- is a list of programs that you currently have running and
- that you want to run later as a group. Minimize the
- programs that you don't want saved in a folder and save the
- others to use when you start Windows the next time.
-
- Oh my gosh. You've launched the wrong desktop. Do you have
- to wait for all 20 programs to launch to stop Accesses?
- WhatDoYouThink? Click the mouse and the mess stops.
-
- A folder can include multiple documents for MDI (Multiple
- Document Interface Programs). Accesses has a Table of up to
- ten programs that you can define to "Run only ONE copy" and
- load all other documents into that one program.
-
- You can launch a folder from a Program Manager icon using a
- command line like Accesses.exe !FolderNo8 and Folder Number
- 8 will be launched.
-
- ******** MDI programs - like WINWORD ********
-
- This "Run only ONE copy" will work when you double click on
- a document name from a program that uses the WIN.INI
- extensions to load a document. For the computer jocks, from
- Accesses you can modify the WIN.INI extension to something
- like the following:
-
- doc=accesses.exe winword.exe ^.doc
-
- And from File Manager or Program Manager you can launch that
- document. If Winword is not running Accesses will launch it
- with that document. However, if Winword is already running,
- Accesses will load that document into the existing copy of
- Winword or for any 9 other MDI programs, Excel, etc.
-
- You can even set up folders for just Winword to be loaded
- with multiple documents.
-
- **** LAUNCHING and PLACING Programs from other Programs *****
-
- For example, Program Manager uses a command line to run
- programs from the Icons displayed in Program Manager. Say
- you have an Icon set up with the command line:
-
- NOTEPAD.EXE WIN.INI.
-
- You can change the command line to:
-
- ACCESSES.EXE NOTEPAD.EXE WIN.INI
-
- And then Accesses will launch Notepad with the WIN.INI
- document and then place notepad where you have it defined to
- start up. The same goes for any other program. Eg. For
- 386 computers: "Accesses.exe DOS.PIF dosprogram.exe" will
- move the DOS window to where you have it defined.
-
- Accesses has its own user configurable menu where the user
- can add their favorite utilities to launch. Ctrl+Esc from
- any program and launch another program from Accesses.
- Ctrl+Shift+Esc from any Windows program opens a Run Dialog
- box where you can select from another menu of Accesses, or
- launch any program from your Windows directory, or click to
- another directory to launch a program. While launching
- programs, you'll want to monitor memory usage....
-
- ******** MEMORY DISPLAYS and USAGE ********
-
- Accesses pop-up can be configured to display % Resource
- Memory Free, and/or Date, and/or Global Memory Free, and/or
- time. The pop-up window of Accesses always stays on top of
- the other windows and can be made as small as the word
- Format on a menu bar. You can Hide the pop-up if you don't
- like pop-ups; but some of the Mouse Click features of
- Accesses will be disabled. I don't think you'll want to
- hide the pop-up. You can even configure Accesses to hide
- itself after so many minutes of inactivity so that it does
- not pop on top of screen blankers or so that it gets out of
- your way when you don't need it.
-
- "Off the WALL Software" always concentrates on Minimizing
- Resource Memory used. While in the background, Accesses
- uses less than 1% of your System Resource Memory. Accesses
- switches task list modes depending on resource memory
- available and can operate on as little as 1-2% resource
- memory; although, you shouldn't run windows with such low
- memory.
-
- How many copies of Accesses are running at one time? Only
- one. Accesses is now your Task Manager and replaces
- TASKMAN.EXE. To be fast, Accesses does keep some of itself
- in Global Memory. Users normally have no problem with
- Global Memory usage.
-
- Accesses is NOT using a windows hook, so Accesses is not
- slowing your computer down. The only significant resource
- used is a total of one timer for the alarms/memory gauge.
-
- ******** MOUSE CLICK FUNCTIONS ********
-
- The mouse cursor changes to show you the Left Mouse Double
- click and a Right Mouse Single Click functions when you move
- the cursor over the Accesses pop-up window. You can mouse
- click on Accesses to:
-
- 1. Pop your main menu to the top focus
- 2. List your System Information: Hard Disk Space
- Available, Floppy disk space available, floppy disk
- size, Windows operating mode,...
- 3. Open a Run Programs Dialog Box where you can launch
- programs.
- 4. Open a Move next window by mouse clicking dialog box
- 5. Open the Task List
- 6. And up to 5 more windows can be "Attached" to pop to
- the top when Accesses is clicked in a particular
- position similar to your main menu above.
-
- ******** ALARMS ********
-
- Up to ten alarms can be set for either today or as a daily
- alarm. Daily alarms are saved to Accesses.ini.
-
- ******** PHONE CALLING ********
-
- Accesses uses your modem to dial a phone number from a
- directory that you can configure. What else can I say.
-
- ******** Shareware ********
-
- Accesses Version 2.1 also provides the unregistered user the
- option of deinstalling the SYSTEM.INI changes on exit.
-
- Accesses is Shareware. For now, the registration cost is
- $24. Unregistered copies have a 12 second message built
- into the startup and a shorter message built into the shutdown;
- otherwise, unregistered copies are fully functional.
-
- If you knew how much work went into Accesses, you wouldn't
- believe how cheap it is.
-
- You can download Accesses from ACCESS.ZIP found on
- CompuServ - WINADV board (slow to receive updates)
- CompuServ - PCMAG UTILFORUM board (fast updates)
- CompuServ - NORUTL board (fast updates)
-
- Accesses Version 2.1, Copyright 1991 by Theodore F. Wall.
-
- Ted Wall
- Off the WALL Software
- 7680 Cottonwood Lane
- Pleasanton, CA 94588-4322
- 510-484-4129
-