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- WELCOME to POWERTOYS
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- UPDATED: 7/19/95.
-
- This folder contains a series of "PowerToys"-- UI enhancements for
- advanced Win95 users-- that can be easily installed on any recent build
- of Windows 95.
-
- These enhancements were developed by members of the Microsoft Win95 team,
- and are now being made available to Win95 users at no cost. Note.. these are
- not part of any shipping retail product at this point in time, and therefore
- are not supported through any official support channels. Use "at your own risk".
-
- The contents of this folder will be updated over time as we make enhancements
- to the utilities you see here now, and as we add new utilities for people to
- try out. Stop back every now and then and see what's changed.
-
- Here's what's available now:
-
- *** SEND TO ANY FOLDER
-
- This utility adds an "Any Folder" entry to your win95 "Send To" menu. You can
- then right-click on any file or directory, choose "Send To> Any Folder" and
- type an MS-DOS path to move or copy the file into. High-end users who miss
- the File Manager's Move and Copy dialogs will love Send To Any Folder.
-
-
- *** FAST FOLDER CONTENTS
-
- With this handy-dandy context-menu extension, when you right-click on any
- folder or other container, you'll get a cascade menu that shows you all the
- contents of that folder, one-level deep. It works on shortcuts-to-folders,
- too.
-
-
- *** QUICK CD
-
- Quick CD is a taskbar notification icon that makes controlling audio CDs a
- breeze. When an audio CD is in your drive, Quick CD gives you convenient
- single-click play/pause control, a tooltip that tells you which track and
- time you're on, and a right-click menu that provides commands for starting,
- stopping, ejecting and moving around the tracks on your CD.
-
-
- *** CABFILE VIEWER
-
- You know those *.CAB files that you'll find on the Win95 CD and floppies?
- (These are files containing one or more compressed files.) Well, with the
- CABFILE Viewer shell extension, you can browse right into a CAB file and
- see all of its contents, and perform normal shell operations on the files
- inside.
-
-
- *** ROUND CLOCK
-
- This version of CLOCK.EXE takes advantage of win95's region windows, so your
- analog clock will be round, just like a real clock would. (Note.. you just
- need to copy this EXE to use the clock. No setup file is provided.)
-
-
- *** EXPLORE FROM HERE
-
- This is a simple custom command for all folders and containers that lets you
- right-click and choose "Explore from Here" to get an Explorer window that has
- the target folder as its root.
-
-
- *** SHORTCUT TARGET MENU
-
- Finally, you can get the properties for a shortcut's target just by
- right-clicking the shortcut. This extension will add to any shortcut's
- context menu the complete context menu of its target.
-
-
- *** XMOUSE
- For all of the CS majors in the audience-- make the focus follow the mouse
- without clicking, a la X Windows. TIP: To turn it off, use the control panel.
-
-
- *** QUICKRES
-
- Here's one we wish was built right in: change DPI and bit depth without
- rebooting. QuickRes lives in the notification area-- just click on it to
- select your new display settings.
-
-
- HOW TO INSTALL
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- Installation of any of these is easy. First, copy down powertoy.exe and place
- it in a new folder (e.g. powertoys) and run "powertoy.exe". Then, right-click
- on the Setup Information file (INF file.. these look like a text file with a
- little gear on them) for the extension you'd like to install, and choose the
- INSTALL command. When you're done installing the extensions you want, you can
- delete the folder. It's that easy.
-
-
- Have Fun!
- - the Win95 shell team
-