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- Windows users have long enjoyed the fact that when you start Windows, you
- could have Windows automatically start any programs simply by putting the
- program's icon into the 'StartUp' group/folder.
-
- Wouldn't it be great to have a similar 'ShutDown' group/folder that right
- before Windows exited, it would run these 'WrapUp' type programs automatically
- for you? Imagine the uses for such a program...
-
- You could automatically:
-
- - Shutdown your Oracle database and avoid corrupting your data.
- - Backup your PC's hard disk(s).
- - Log out of your PC network (LAN).
- - Synchronize your laptop PC's hard disk with your desktop
- PC's hard disk or visa versa.
- - Access your favorite online stock-quote system and retrieve
- your latest stock prices.
- - Send an email message.
- - Run your communications program and have it autodial your
- significant other, so you could pick up the telephone and
- tell him/her that you're on your way home.
- - Or any DOS program or batch file that can be run from within
- Windows.
- - Eject the CD-ROM disk from your drive.
- - Or anything else for that matter...
-
- WrapUp is compatible with Windows 95, Windows NT (3.51 and 4.0), and Windows
- 3.1.
-
-
- To install under Windows 95 and NT 4.0:
-
- Copy the following files to any single area of your PC's disk:
-
- WrapUp.exe
- WrapUp.hlp
- WrapUp32.dll
-
- A typical destination might be: C:\TNT\WRAPUP
-
- Start Windows 95 or NT 4.0.
-
- Open your 'StartUp' folder from the Start-Programs menu. If you don't have a
- 'StartUp' folder, create one... Then create a new icon for WrapUp so that it
- will automatically execute whenever Windows is executed. Don't run it yet...
-
- Start WrapUp. It will create a new "ShutDown" folder for you. You can find it
- off of your Start Menu's Programs menu. It will then exit.
-
- Move or copy your favorite programs' icons into your new 'Shutdown' folder.
-
-
- To install under Windows NT or Windows 3.1:
-
- Copy the following files to any single area of your PC's disk:
-
- WrapUp.exe
- WrapUp.hlp
- WrapUp32.dll
-
- A typical destination might be: C:\TNT\WRAPUP
-
- Start Windows in either 'Standard' or 'Enhanced' mode. WrapUp can not run in
- 'Real' mode.
-
- Open your 'StartUp' group. Create a new icon for WrapUp so that it will
- automatically execute whenever Windows is executed. Don't run it yet...
-
- Start WrapUp. It will create a new "ShutDown" group for you and then it will
- exit.
-
- Move or copy your favorite programs' icons into your new shutdown group.
-
-
- To operate under Windows 95 or NT 4.0:
-
- Restart Windows 95/NT 4.0.
-
- Observe that WrapUp is running.
-
- Shut down Windows by selecting "Start-Shut Down-Shut Down the computer?".
- WrapUp will then wake up, and ask you via a dialog box, if you want to close
- all of your currently running desktop programs, and then it will execute all
- of the programs in your shutdown group. Saying YES will do the above. Saying
- NO, will simply exit Windows. Saying CANCEL, will abort the exiting of
- Windows. You may override the default operation of WrapUp so that it won't
- present you with the above dialog box by appending a /N to the command line.
- In this mode, upon detecting Windows starting to shutdown, WrapUp will
- automatically close your desktop programs and then execute all of your
- shutdown group programs.
-
- When you are finally ready to exit Windows, shut down Windows. This time,
- WrapUp will not intervene (since it already executed your shutdown programs)
- and you will truly exit Windows.
-
-
- To operate under Windows NT 3.51 or Windows 3.1:
-
- Restart Windows.
-
- Observe that WrapUp is running.
-
- Exit Windows. You will get the familiar Windows "Are you sure you want to
- close" dialog box. Say YES. WrapUp will then wake up, and ask you via a dialog
- box, if you want to close all of your currently running desktop programs, and
- then it will execute all of the programs in your shutdown group. Saying YES
- will do the above. Saying NO, will simply exit Windows. Saying CANCEL, will
- abort the exiting of Windows. You may override the default operation of WrapUp
- so that it won't present you with the above dialog box by appending a /N to
- the command line. In this mode, upon detecting Windows starting to exit,
- WrapUp will automatically close your desktop programs and then execute all of
- your shutdown group programs.
-
- When you are finally ready to exit Windows, exit Windows. This time, WrapUp
- will not intervene (since it already executed your shutdown programs) and you
- will truly exit Windows.
-
-
- To uninstall:
-
- Delete WrapUp.exe, WrapUp.hlp and WrapUp.dll from your disk.
-
-
- Notes:
-
- Upon detecting Windows starting to exit, WrapUp closes all of your desktop
- programs so that after it then executes the programs in your shutdown group,
- it will be easy to determine which programs you need to deal with. They're the
- only programs left executing on your desktop.
-
- LAN administrators can easily manage WrapUp by simply insuring that the proper
- shutdown group (GRP) file is present for proper operation. If the user is
- already running Windows in a LAN environment, then the proper group files are
- already present and no extra effort will be required. Please remember that one
- copy of WrapUp must be purchased for each and every user of WrapUp.
-
- You can control the execution order of both your StartUp and ShutDown group's
- programs by modifying their GRP files. TNT's Grp2Ini program can make it easy
- for you to do this.
-
- WrapUp memorizes the contents of your shutdown group when you first run
- WrapUp. If you modify your shutdown group's contents while WrapUp is running,
- then WrapUp will not detect these changes. In this case, you'll need to
- terminate WrapUp and then re-execute it so that it will re-examine the new
- contents of your shutdown group. This WrapUp behavior is due to limitations in
- Windows.
-
- Non Windows Program Manager users (such as Norton DeskTop, PCTools MultiDesk
- DeskTop, and Windows NT) must modify WrapUp's command line with the /Pxxxx
- option so that WrapUp can correctly access the contents of the shutdown group.
- In order to do this, you must issue a WrapUp File-Modules pull-down menu
- command to see a list of desktop programs and their module names. Identify the
- name of your program manger program and its module. This module must be
- entered on WrapUp's command line as a /P option. For example, Windows 3.1's
- Program Manager's module name is 'PROGMAN'. Windows 95's Explorer's (Program
- Manager's) module name is 'Explorer'. Below is a list of known alternative
- program managers and their associated /P option.
-
- Windows 3.1: /PPROGMAN
- Windows 95: /PExplorer
- Windows NT 3.51 & 4.0: /PWOWEXEC
- PCTools MultiDesk: /PWNDTLIB
- HP DashBoard: /PDASH
-
- Command line syntax: WrapUp [/N] [/Gxxx] [/Pxxx]
-
- Note: At least one space must appear in between each switch.
-
-
- WrapUp is NOT freeware. Only unregistered evaluation versions of WrapUp may
- be freely distributed as shareware. Registered (paid for) versions of WrapUp
- may NOT be shared.
-
- If you are unsure as to if your copy of WrapUp is registered or not, examine
- the Help-About screen for your name. If it says "UNREGISTERED..." then your
- are executing an evaluation version of WrapUp.
-
- Evaluation versions of WrapUp will only execute one of your programs that
- appear in your startup group. The remaining programs will not be executed,
- however for each remaining program, WrapUp will present a message to you
- stating that your program would have run in a purchased version of WrapUp.
-
- If you like this program, send $39 dollars plus $5 shipping and handling for a
- single user license. Multi-user and site licenses are available. Upon receipt
- of payment, a registered version will be shipped to you. Registered users will
- be notified of future versions.
-
- Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 6.6
- 430 Canyon Woods Place Suite A
- San Ramon, Ca. 94583
-
- E-mail: 71044.542@compuserve.com
-
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