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- Start Menu Changer'97 Readme file.
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- This program is SHAREWARE. It is provided "AS IS". The authors takes no
- responsibility for any damage caused by this program. You can copy it as many
- times as you like. Give it to anyone as long as all the files in the
- distribution are included and no changes are made to any files. If you like it
- you can register it.
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- The files which should be included in the original ZIP file:
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- Setup.exe - The installation.
- StartMC.ex_ - The program.
- Remove.ex_ - The uninstallation.
- Readme.txt - The program information. (This file).
- ReadmeFr.txt - French translation of this Readme file.
- Register.exe - Start Menu Changer'97 registration
- Register.hlp - Registration help
- Sharewre.txt - The concept of Shareware.
- History.txt - Start Menu Changer's history.
- File_id.diz - Small program description.
- End-User.txt - End user agreement
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- Alexey\ - My favourite theme pack
- Win98\ - Windows 98 theme pack
- Sun\ - Sun theme pack by H.Renouard
- Sample\ - Sample theme pack of using SMC theme packs
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- Q: How to register the software?
- A: Go to Start Menu Changer'97 'About' bookmark. Press there 'Register.exe'
- button. Then fill out the form by entering your name, email adress and the
- number of single user license you disere for each program you wish to
- purchase.
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- Q: What is the start button icons limit?
- A: The Start button size has to be 10x10, 12x12, 14x14, 16x16, 22x22 or 32x32
- with 16 colors. By default, Windows 95 uses 16x16 icon. You can change this
- by resizing the active title bar (click right mouse button on desktop,
- select properties/appearence).
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- Q: What does Start Menu Changer modify and how to remove changes?
- A: Start Menu Changer modifies Explorer.exe and User.exe files.
- Backup files are stored as Explorer.sav in your Windows directory and
- User.sav in your Windows system directory. It also modifies the registry.
- To restore your original files press the Restore button. To enable your
- changes you have to restart Windows 95.
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- Q: How to restore original Windows icons on start menu?
- A: There are two types or doing that:
- 1) Press right mouse button on the start menu icon, which you want to
- restore and choose in the popup menu 'restore'.
- 2) Press restore button and choose 'restore original icons on start menu'.
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- Q: I'm having trouble with starting Windows 95.
- A: If you have problems with starting Windows 95 or restoring your original
- settings, boot into command line (DOS) and copy the *.sav files to *.exe
- files. If you still have problems then
- 1) Extract Explorer.exe and User.exe from your Windows 95 installation.
- ( For example: EXTRACT /A /L C:\TEMP WIN95_02.CAB EXPLORER.EXE
- USER.EXE )
- 2) If you have IE4 shell integration installed then chahge in your
- C:\Windows\System.ini shell=Explorer.exe to shell=Progman.exe
- When windows start up with Program Manager you have to go to File
- Manager (winfile.exe) and find the IE4.01 setup. And reinstaling
- IE4 by dblclick setup. The Internet connection have to be functioning
- because the problem did not affect that configuration neither IE4.
- When IE4 finish the instalation the changes in system.ini comes to
- normaly again and the setup restart windows 95 automaticaly with all
- systems working properly.
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- Q: How can I change the start menu vertical logo?
- A: First of all, you have to create a bitmap file (21x130 with 16 colors). Run
- Windows Paint, choose size 21x130, draw what you like and then save the
- picture as a 16 color bitmap file (you can also change the palette of the
- logo). Run Start Menu Changer and then press 'Load logo' button to load
- picture. Anyway, after rebooting, your vertical logo size will be small.
- To correct this problem you have to compress your picture file using RLE
- compression. Windows Paint doesn't support RLE compression, so choose
- another graphic editor, for example, Paint Shop Pro
- ( http://www.jasc.com/psp.html ). The best program that compresses BMP
- I've seen is Borland Resource Workshop. To view whole picture your BMP RLE
- file has to be =< 1678 bytes.
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- Q: My vertical logo has been cuted and there are some incorrect colors after
- it.
- A: To correct colors run Start Menu Changer, load logo and then decrease
- logo's height. However, the logo will always be cut because Start Menu
- Changer rewrites the existing logo in Explorer.exe file with existing size.
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- Q: How can I create my own Theme Pack?
- A: First of all, see Sample Theme Pack. Index.smc is an ini-type file so you
- can easly modify it in Windows Notepad. If any ICON or BMP file (or sections
- in index.smc) isn't included in your theme then the picture (or options)
- will not be changed in Windows.
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- NOTE: Unchecked Run, Find, Settings, Logoff, Suspend and Shutdown will not
- appear in Explorer at all until you've checked them again in Start Menu
- Changer'97. This happens because Start Menu Changer'97 also modifies
- registry.
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- KNOWN BUGS: -> In Russian version the Run is not removed from the start menu
- (Microsoft's bug). There are also some similar bugs in German
- Windows 95.
- -> Dosn't support Windows NT and Windows 98 beta 'Read beyond end
- of file' message occurs. This message also may occur on some
- unsupported Windows 95 versions.
- -> Doesn't hide Settings from start menu in IE4 shell integration.
- -> 256 color icons are saved only as 16 color icons.
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- If you have any suggestions or any questions contact me or if you have cool
- Theme Packs for Start Menu Changer send them to me or send me a link to your
- page where these Themes pack will be located.
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- Email -------------------> servent@apollo.lv
- Home page ---------------> http://www.halyava.ru/aaalexey
- Start Menu Changer page -> http://www.halyava.ru/aaalexey/StartMenu.html