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- MYGROUPS.EXE (VERSION 1.0) Copyright (c) 1994, Charles C. Edwards
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- First Published in PC Magazine September 27, 1994 (Utilities)
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- MYGROUPS by Charles C. Edwards
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- PURPOSE:
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- MyGroups lets you change your Program Manager group icons to
- customized icons.
- SETUP:
- To install MyGroups, copy MYGROUPS.EXE to your hard disk and
- then add it to your Startup group. Once MyGroups is running, whenever
- you select the system menu for a Program Manager group, you will see
- two additional menu items: Change Icon and Unload MyGroups.
- When you select Change Icons, you will be presented with a dialog box
- that is very similar in appearance to the dialog box used to select
- file icons. You can browse the icons you have on-disk in the usual way,
- or you can click on Programs to view the icons contained within that
- group.
- To unload MyGroups and restore the default Program Manager group icons,
- select Unload MyGroups.
- REMARKS:
- MyGroups stores the location of the icon for each group in an
- .INI file called MYGROUPS.INI. This file can be found in your Windows
- directory. If you delete or rename a group, MyGroups detects this and
- makes the appropriate changes to the .INI file. Such changes are not
- detected, however, if they are made while MyGroups is not loaded.
- MyGroups will display a message the next time you start it if it
- encounters a problem.
- If you frequently make changes to your groups while MyGroups is not
- running, you may want to disable the start-up warnings. If you don't
- want to be notified when the file containing a group icon cannot be
- found, place the statement WARNICON=0 in the [Warnings] section of
- MYGROUPS.INI. If you don't want to be warned about groups that were
- deleted or renamed while MyGroups was not running, put the
- line WARNGROUP=0 in the same section.------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Charles C. Edwards, author of the book Advanced Techniques in Turbo
- Pascal (Sybex, 1987), is a consultant working in Washington, D.C.
- He specialized in desk-top operating-systems support.
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