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- TouchPro V1.2
- Copyright (c) 1995-96 JD Design
- All Rights Reserved
-
- What is TouchPro?
- -----------------
- TouchPro is a Windows 95 extension that allows you to modify or "touch", any,
- or all of a file's time & date values. TouchPro integrates seamlessly with
- Windows 95 and appears as an extra dialog box in addition to a file's normal
- property pages. You can modify multiple file's time & date values by using a
- multiple selection and "Touch" entire selected directory trees.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- TouchPro 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:
-
-
- TouchPro.dll The TouchPro Shell Extension DLL
-
-
- TouchPro.doc WordPad documentation
-
-
- TouchPro.txt Text documentation
-
-
- TouchPro.inf The Setup Information File
-
- Select the TouchPro.inf Setup Information File in an Explorer window and
- choose File, Install, or right click on the file and choose the Install menu.
-
- Installation is quick, merely involving copying of the files to the target
- location on your machine and modification of the relevant registry
- information. TouchPro is now ready to use.
-
- How Do You Use It?
- ------------------
- Select the files that you want to alter the timestamp on in an Explorer
- window.
-
- Display the properties by using the File, Properties menu, or right click and
- choose the Properties menu item.
-
- With TouchPro installed you will see an extra "Touch" page in the properties
- dialog.
-
- Click on the "Touch" tab to use TouchPro.
-
- TouchPro enters the current date & time as a default, and allows you to alter
- them to whatever you want.
-
- To set the file timestamps just select the file time types that you want to
- change by clicking the appropriate check boxes, and use the "Touch Now"
- button.
-
- Note
- ----
- The OK, and Apply buttons on the main Property Page dialog do not perform the
- touch operation.
-
- The file's Last Accessed time will change to the current date & time when you
- touch any of the time & date values. Because any file access can alter the
- Last Accessed time, it may be difficult to ascertain that this feature works
- as some Windows 95 shell features access some types of file to determine
- context sensitivity.
-
- FAT file systems can not have files dated before 1 January 1980. TouchPro does
- not attempt to catch this particular circumstance as Win32 allows dates before
- this, and future file systems may permit this obscure feature. If you
- currently try to set the time & date to a value before 1 January 1980,
- TouchPro reports the operation has failed in the same as if the file were
- read-only.
-
- FAT file systems have a time resolution of 2 seconds.
-
- Limitations
- -----------
- Time format is currently 24hr format only.
-
- TouchPro can only alter the "modified" time value for files stored on Novell
- Netware drives.
-
- Removal
- -------
- Use the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs item. Select the TouchPro item
- (listed as "Touch Property Page Extension") and click the Add/Remove button.
-
- Contact
- -------
- 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 software 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
-