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- Tab2Desk V1.1
- Copyright (c) 1996 JD Design
- All Rights Reserved
-
- What is Tab2Desk?
- -----------------
- Tab2Desk is a small Windows 95/NT 4 application that lets you use the
- Taskbar's "Minimize All Windows"/"Undo Minimize All" facilities from the
- keyboard and get to your desktop icons without having to use the mouse.
-
- It finally answers the question with Windows 95 of "why can't I use Alt+Tab to
- get to the desktop?".
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Tab2Desk is supplied as a compressed file archive. Copy the compressed file to
- an empty floppy disk or new sub-directory on your hard disk & extract the files.
- When you have uncompressed the supplied file, you should have the following
- files in addition to the original:
-
- Tab2Desk.exe The program
- Tab2Desk.txt Text documentation
- Tab2Desk.doc WordPad documentation
-
- You can start Tab2Desk now by simply running the program (there is no specific
- installation that needs to be done). If you find Tab2Desk useful and want to
- continue using it, the best way of using it is to create a shortcut to it in your
- Startup folder. If you don't know how to do this, you can find the instructions in
- your Windows on-line help under the Index Tab item "StartUp folder, adding
- programs to".
-
- How Do You Use It?
- ------------------
- This takes longer to explain in writing than it does if you try it, you'll find it
- easier just to run Tab2Desk & use Alt+Tab to the Tab2Desk icon & see what it
- does.
-
- Once Tab2Desk is running you won't be aware of it except when you use the
- Alt+Tab task switch facility. If you have any windows open and switch to the
- Tab2Desk application (which will indicate "Minimize All Windows"),
- Tab2Desk will use the taskbar's facility to minimize all windows. Additionally,
- it will activate the desktop so that you can use the keyboard cursor keys to move
- around any icons on your desktop.
-
- If you switch to Tab2Desk once you have previously minimized all windows, it
- will indicate "Restore Windows to Desktop". It will now use the taskbar's "Undo
- Minimize All" facility to restore any previously minimized windows.
-
- Because of the way that Tab2Desk works, closing it down is a little convoluted.
- Use Alt+Tab to display the Tab2Desk icon item, release the Tab key and hold
- down the Ctrl key, then release the Alt key (again, it's easier to do than it is to
- explain). This brings up the Tab2Desk About box. From here you can close
- down Tab2Desk using the Exit button, or allow Tab2Desk to continue.
- Alternatively, if you start up another copy of Tab2Desk, it will close down in the
- same way.
-
- Note
- ----
- Tab2Desk refreshes its caption text slowly so as not to provide any noticeable
- extra load on your system. If you're quick with trying out Tab2Desk, you may
- find that it displays the wrong caption. However, in normal usage we don't
- expect that you'll see any problems. If you do, just let us know.
-
- Tab2Desk will indicate "Restore Windows to Desktop" if you have manually
- minimized all open windows. In this situation the taskbar's has its "Undo
- Minimize All" menu item disabled, so nothing will happen.
-
- Removal
- -------
- Tab2Desk creates no additional files or registry entries so if you want to remove
- it, it's just a matter of deleting the supplied files & any shortcut you have created.
-
- How to contact JD Design
- ------------------------
- If you have any questions, you can contact us at:
-
- 100524.3072@compuserve.com.
-
- Please take a look at our web site to see the services we offer and download our
- other free utilities.
-
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jdd
-
- If you need help, or have any suggestions for improvements to any of our
- utilities, then please contact us via Email. It's always good to hear from people
- using our products so why not let us know how you find the utilities anyway?
-
- Thanks
- JD Design
- 162 Mow Cop Road
- Mow Cop
- Stoke-on-Trent
- ST7 4NH
- England
-