Copyright: (c) 1998 David Aylott


Contents

Aylott Computing's Utilities for Windows

  WINUTILS

Version 2.4b

Introduction:

This handy collection of utilities performs some useful tasks for users of Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT.

The WINUTILS have been released as Shareware - you are welcome to try them out free of charge for a period of 30 days. If you find them useful please pay the author as detailed below otherwise you are required to delete them from your PC. Your support will make it possible to produce updates and additional Windows applications.

You are encouraged to pass these utilities on to friends and colleagues but please keep them in their original format and with all files included in the package.

Please make sure you have the latest version of these utilities by visiting our Web site (see below).

Installing and Uninstalling

Registering

The Utilities:

CLOSEALL

CLOSEWIN

DEFPRINT

ENDSHARE

ENDWIN

EXIT2DOS

INIEDIT

MINALL

NPAD

PLAYSND

REGISTER

RESTWIN

RUNQUIT

RUNSND

SHUTDOWN

SHUTOPTN

STARTSND

TIMEPROG

WINTIME

WPAD

Other Applications from Aylott Computing:

•	Windows Utilities (a handy collection of utilities to close down and restart Windows at the click of a button, schedule programs, close all open windows, close programs after a specified time, change notepad and wordpad defaults etc)

•	MS Word Font Listing Macro (produces a sorted list of all your Fonts with multiple fonts to a page. Allows multiple or single line listings or the entire character set to be displayed in any font size).

•	MS Word Clipart Listing Macro (produces thumbnails of all your graphics files with multiple pictures to a page)

•	Font Printing Program (prints a sorted list of all your fonts in a range of font sizes. Multiple font samples are listed on each page allowing a compact record of all your fonts to be kept for reference).

•	MS Access Country Database (over 250 countries incl. capitals, 2 letter country codes, currency, flags, maps etc)

•	Biorhythms (decide when to stay in bed and when to get up)

•	English to French Translation (actually, it's Franglais just for fun!)

•	Music Player (play all your .WAV, .MID and .RMI files in order, randomly etc. - lots of options)

•	Guessing Game (ask me 10 questions and see if you can guess the object - just a bit of fun)

•	Banquet Auction Database for schools and other organisations (takes all the hard work out of fund raising)

•	Mailing Databases (keep track of your contacts by various categories - print reports, labels and mail merge letters etc)

•	Help Desk Database (log problems and resolutions - print reports of outstanding and completed requests etc)

•	Donor Database for schools and other organisations to store information on students, past students etc (campus, qualifications, notes, donations etc)

Services from Aylott Computing:

•	Computer Consulting

•	Training

•	Repairs and Upgrades

•	Desktop publishing

•	MS Word and WordPerfect password cracking

•	Backup and disaster recovery planning

•	Programming (Web Pages, MS Access, Visual Basic, Word & Excel, Foxpro etc)

We welcome any comments and suggestions for improvement.

Thank you for your interest.

Email: daylott@bigfoot.com

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~daylott/


CloseAll

CLOSEALL.EXE (<Window Name>)

This utility will close down (almost) all open applications and folders. See notes for some applications that may not close down automatically. You will be asked to save any files that have been modified. It does not close down 'hidden' applications (eg those in the Windows 95 System Tray).

If a parameter is passed to CLOSEALL (eg CLOSEALL Window Name), only those applications and windows containing the text Window Name in the title bar will be closed.

eg:

CLOSEALL.EXE - this will close down ALL application windows and folders (except those in the [NotClose] section of WINUTILS.INI)

CLOSEALL notepad - this will close down only those applications and folders with notepad in the title bar

NOTES:

•	The evaluation version will close down a maximum of four windows. The registered version will close down ALL applications and folders

•	The registered version allows applications to be listed in the [NotClose] section of the WINUTILS.INI file. These applications will NOT be closed down automatically

•	Window Name is NOT case sensitive - CLOSEALL notepad will close all windows containing the text Notepad, NOTEPAD or notepad, for example

•	Window Name can be one or more words (eg CLOSEALL Microsoft Word)

•	CLOSEALL works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95

WINUTILS.INI

[NotClose]

Program Manager=

Messaging=

Schedule+=

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program on your Windows 95 desktop or on the Start button. It is particularly useful for closing all running applications before installing new software.


Close_Notes

A few applications (such as Windows Messaging [Exchange] and MS Publisher) can stop Windows closing down or rebooting automatically. For example, if MS Publisher has a file open (even if it has been saved) it may stop the automatic process.

The registered version of these utilities will close down many of these applications automatically (whilst still checking for unsaved files).


Minall

MINALL.EXE

This will minimise all open applications and folders. A shortcut to this on the Windows 95 desktop may be easier to use than right clicking on the taskbar - and it  also works in Windows 3.x.

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program on your Windows 95 desktop or on the Start button.


EndWin

ENDWIN.EXE

This will close down Windows. See notes for some applications that may not close down automatically. If applications are running, it will send friendly messages to them exactly as Windows does so you will be asked to save any files that have been modified.

NOTE:

•	ENDWIN works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program on your Windows 95 desktop or on the Start button.


RestWin

RESTWIN.EXE (<delay>)

This will restart Windows.  See notes for some applications that may not close down automatically. If applications are running it will send friendly messages to them exactly as Windows does so you will be asked to save any files that have been modified.

Automating Reboots:

If you decide to use System Agent with Windows 95 to schedule a restart of Windows using RESTWIN.EXE, you must take care when setting it up. If you use the defaults, System Agent will restart the PC at the selected time but will not register that it has completed. When your PC restarts, System Agent will run RESTWIN again. This process will continue, presumably until the time set under Advanced (which is normally 1 hour after the scheduled time).

Follow these guidelines to set it up successfully:

•	Schedule RESTWIN to start at the required time (eg 05:00AM)

•	Under Advanced, set the Deadline time to one minute after this time (eg 05:01AM)

•	Check the box that says 'If the program is still running, stop it at this time' (IMPORTANT)

This Microsoft Knowledge Base article contains more information on the problem - http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q147/5/94.asp

Even this can fail if your PC reboots within one minute. To get around this problem, you can force RESTWIN to wait a number of seconds before restarting your PC by passing it a parameter. This optional parameter (delay) is the number of seconds to wait before restarting your PC. If you call RESTWIN without a parameter, or the delay is invalid, the PC will restart immediately.

So, if your PC restarts within 45 seconds and you are calling RESTWIN from WINTIME or from System Agent, for example, you should add a delay of at least 25 seconds to ensure that the total time is more than 60 seconds.

eg C:\WINUTILS\RESTWIN.EXE 30

This will wait 30 seconds before restarting your PC.

Thanks to Todd Fry for discovering this and for his patience in suffering endless reboots!

NOTE:

•	RESTWIN works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program on your Windows 95 desktop or on the Start button.


PlaySnd

PLAYSND.EXE <filename>

This plays a single .WAV file - just pass the full path & filename to the program as a parameter (eg PLAYSND C:\WINDOWS\CHIMES.WAV). We've found it useful, for example, to play sound files through WINTIME at midnight to tell us to go to bed!).

NOTES:

•	PLAYSND works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95

•	PLAYSND does not work with all sound cards

•	If you are using Windows 95 and the Sound Recorder (SNDREC32.EXE) is installed, PLAYSND will use that

•	Do not use PLAYSND with large sound files - SNDREC32.EXE is VERY slow when loading large files

Suggestion: You can associate .WAV files with PLAYSND to make it your default player.


WPad

WPAD.EXE (<filename>)

A problem with WORDPAD in Windows 95 or NT 4 is that it always starts with the same defaults (eg header, footer, margins).

This utility starts WordPad and, if a filename is passed to it as a parameter, the file is opened.

In the evaluation version, it then sets the default font to Courier New, 16 point otherwise it sets it according to the [WordPad] section in WINUTILS.INI.

If no parameters are passed to WPAD, the 'File Open' dialog box starts automatically. In the evaluation version, All (*.*) File Types are listed. The registered version allows you to choose which File Types are opened by default.

The default margins are also changed in exactly the same way as NPAD.

NOTES:

•	Parameters such as '/p <filename>' which normally send the file directly to the printer do not work - you will need to print the file 'manually' after the font has been changed.

•	When used with Windows 3.x it simply starts Write.

•	WPAD works with Windows 95 and Windows NT

The registered version allows the exact margins, font or filetype to be specified in the [WordPad] section of the WINUTILS.INI file, for example:

WINUTILS.INI

[WordPad]

left=30

Right=30

Top=30

bottom=30

FileType=A

Font=Courier New

FontSize=8

Max=1

Valid FileTypes are W - Word, R - RTF, T - Text, A - All

The Font name must match the name of the font in the WordPad font window exactly.

If you wish to use the default font but with a different size, you MUST enter both the Font name and FontSize in WINUTILS.INI.

The Max entry determines if the WordPad application is opened 'normally' or maximised. If Max = 1 the window will be maximised, any other number will start the application in it's normal state.

There appears to be a 'bug' in WordPad under Windows NT 4 - the window opens maximised initially but then reverts to 'normal'. WPAD gets around this by maximising the application again at the end of the routine. Thanks to Steve Adams for pointing out this problem and for his assistance in getting WPAD working with Windows NT 4.

NOTE:

If you open files from within WordPad, the font will revert to the default. To keep your specified font you can drag and drop files from Explorer as shown below:

•	Create a shortcut to WPAD.EXE on your Win95 desktop

•	Open Explorer and select the file you want to edit

•	Drag the file onto the shortcut you just created

•	After the file loads, wait a few seconds and the default margins & font will be changed

You can have many WordPads open at once - just keep dragging & dropping files onto the WPAD.EXE shortcut on your desktop.


NPad

NPAD.EXE (<filename>)

A problem with NOTEPAD is that it always starts with the same defaults (eg header, footer, margins).

The evaluation version of NPAD changes the default left and right margins to 0.6. The country settings for measurements are ignored so it will set them to either 0.6mm or 0.6".

The registered version of NPAD can be tailored to your exact needs by keeping your required settings in the [Notepad] section of the WINUTILS.INI file.

For example:

WINUTILS.INI

[Notepad]

left=30

Right=30

Top=30

bottom=30

header=" "

footer=" "

filetype="*.htm"

wrap=1

Max=1

If an entry is omitted, the Windows defaults are used. The above example sets all margins to 30 (in my case, 30mm), the header and footer are cleared and Word Wrap is turned on (any entry other than 1 will leave it turned off).

An annoying 'feature' of notepad is that it thinks the file has changed after Word Wrap is turned on - NPAD gets around this problem by performing a save just after turning it on. If you do not have Read/Write access to the file or drive this operation will fail and you will be asked to save the changes when you close Notepad.

The filetype entry lets you specify the default files to open. In this example, notepad will look for *.htm files instead of the default *.txt files.

The Max entry determines if the Notepad application is opened 'normally' or maximised. If Max = 1 the window will be maximised, any other number will start the application in it's normal state.

If a filename is passed to NPAD as a parameter, that file will be opened in Notepad.


RunQuit

RUNQUIT.EXE <program> (<parameters>)

This utility runs a Windows program and, when the application ends, exits Windows. It secures Windows 3.x whilst running as PROGRAM MANAGER is not available during this time.

It can be started from the DOS command line and passed as a parameter to the WIN application (eg WIN RUNQUIT WRITE.EXE).

It was designed to run under Windows 3.x but will work with Windows 95 although with slightly different results.

Most of this can be achieved using SHELL= in the WIN.INI although this method is not very flexible. RUNQUIT uses the current directory as the working (or default) directory and allows you to pass parameters to the application. It can be used in a BATch file as shown in the example below:

CD \DATA

WIN RUNQUIT NOTEPAD.EXE README.TXT

This starts Windows, starts NOTEPAD and opens the file README.TXT (which must be in the C:\DATA directory). When NOTEPAD is closed, the user is returned to the DOS prompt.

NOTES:

•	RUNQUIT must be in your PATH to work properly.

•	You can pass the full path name of an application to RUNQUIT

•	The RUNQUIT icon will be hidden in in the registered version

•	RUNQUIT works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95


TimeProg

TIMEPROG.EXE <filename> (, time)

This utility runs a Windows program for a specified amount of time (in minutes). At the end of the time specified, the program will be closed automatically. If, for example, a file has been changed or a game not saved you will be asked if you wish to save the changes before the program terminates.

It was designed to limit the time spent by children playing computer games although it can be used for many other applications.

You must pass the filename and time to the utility as parameters

eg TIMEPROG C:\WINDOWS\SOL.EXE, 30

This starts Solitaire and will close it down automatically after 30 minutes.

NOTES:

•	The remaining time is shown in the title bar of the application

•	The program name and time MUST be separated with a comma (,)

•	If no time is passed to the utility, it will default to 60 minutes

•	The TIMEPROG icon will be hidden in in the registered version

•	This version does not cope well with programs starting just before midnight and finishing next day

•	It is NOT designed to be accurate to the second - it should run the requested application for AT LEAST the time specified but may run over by up to one minute

•	TIMEPROG works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95


WinTime

WINTIME.EXE

This utility will run a program or output a message on the screen at a specified time. The details are held in the WINUTILS.INI file as shown in the following example:

WINUTILS.INI

[clock]

sleep = 10

display = true

[Events]

; If Hide=true, the icon is hidden whilst running

; Set Hide=false to display the icon

Hide=false

NoEvents=3

; Starts notepad at 9:05pm

Event1=c:\windows\notepad.exe

Time1=21:05

Type1=Run

; Plays a sound at 2:00am

Event2=playsnd.exe c:\sound\snore.wav

Time2=02:00

Type2=Run

; Sends a warning message at 9:00pm

Event3=Notepad will start in FIVE minutes!

Time3=21:00

Type3=Msg

The [clock] section is only used in Windows 3.x.

The sleep entry tells the program how many seconds to wait before checking the system clock (must be less than 60 seconds or events could be missed). Smaller numbers are more accurate but have a larger impact on system performance.

The display entry is either true or false. If true, a digital clock is added to the title bar of the active window.

In Windows 95, the system clock is checked every 15 seconds and no digital clock is added to the title bar (one can easily be added to the system tray).

The [events] section contains details of the times and programs / messages.

The Hide entry can be either true or false and controls whether the icon is displayed or not when WINTIME is running.

The NoEvents entry contains the number of events in the list.

Each Event consists of three lines:

Event<n>=	this is the full path name of the application to run (including any parameters)

Time<n>=	this is the time that the event is to be run (the 24 hour clock must be used)

Type<n>=	this is either Msg for a message or Run for a program

<n> is a number from 1 to the number of events (NoEvents). The order of the events is not important.

IMPORTANT:

The Time events must use the 24 hour format consisting of four digits (hh:mm) and leading zeroes for times in the morning, eg:

06:00	for 6:00AM

18:00	for 6:00PM

6:00	is NOT valid and will NOT be recognised by WINTIME. Thanks to Charles Bristow for highlighting this issue.

NOTES:

•	The evaluation version of WINTIME is limited to running a maximum of two events. The registered version will run any number of events.

•	The icon can only be hidden in the registered version

•	It is recommended that you allow a few minutes between events as it is possible for an event to be missed if they are only one minute apart. This is particularly true of the evaluation version as the program is halted when the nag/brag screen is displayed (which happens after every event).

•	WINTIME works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95

Suggestion: If used regularly, this utility should be added to your Startup group.


Exit2DOS

EXIT2DOS.EXE

This will close down Windows 95 to the DOS prompt.  See notes for some applications that may not close down automatically. If applications are running it will send friendly messages to them exactly as Windows does so you will be asked to save any files that have been modified.

NOTE:

•	The file EXIT2DOS.PIF must be in the same folder as EXIT2DOS.EXE.

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program on your Windows 95 desktop or on the Start button.


RunSnd

RUNSND.EXE (<Sound filename>,) <filename>

This utility plays a sound before starting the specified program. You must pass the filename and sound file as parameters

eg RUNSND C:\SOUND\SNORE.WAV, NOTEPAD

This plays the specified .WAV file just before starting Notepad

NOTES:

•	The sound file and program name MUST be separated with a comma (,)

•	If no sound file is passed to the utility, it will simply run the specified program

•	RUNSND works with Windows 3.x and Windows 95


Register

REGISTER.EXE

This is used to register the Windows Utilities using the registration code that will be sent to you when your payment is received.

This application can also be used to assist in diagnosing problems:

•	If there are any errors you will probably receive a cryptic dialog box. Error 0 in line xx:  Can't find extension, for example, generally means the program is unable to locate the SYM*.DLL files.

•	When you run REGISTER.EXE, the home directory will be displayed and you will be informed if the WINUTILS.INI file has been found.


ShutOptn

SHUTOPTN.EXE

This Windows 95 utility was written for Bart Nelissen who wrote:

Does anybody know how to change the default "Shut Down" option? Currently it seems to be "Shut down the computer" and I would like to change it into "Close all programs and log on as different user". This was to avoid users accidentally closing down the computer when all they wanted to do was log off.

It was then updated for Mirko Guldner and Petra Geppert who wanted it to work with the German version of Windows 95.

The program was originally called DIFFUSER but has now been updated to use any of the Shut Down options as the default.

Operation:

The [Shutdown] section in the WINUTILS.INI file contains an Option item to allow any option to be selected from the Shutdown dialog box as the default. This entry is the shortcut key to the required option (eg C for Close all programs and log on as different user). You can find the shortcut key by looking for the underlined character in the Shutdown dialog box.

SHUTOPTN will normally place an icon on the Windows 95 taskbar. By right clicking on this icon you can close the application and restore the Windows 95 default. If you do not wish to see the icon on your taskbar you can include the Hide=true entry in the [Shutdown] section of WINUTILS.INI.

NOTES:

•	The evaluation version will display the Shutdown Option when it starts - this is suppressed in the registered version

•	The icon can only be hidden in the registered version

WINUTILS.INI

[Shutdown]

; Option=R	- Restart the computer

; Option=C	- Close all programs and log on as different user

; Option=M	- Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode

Option=R

; If Hide=true, the icon is hidden whilst running

; Set Hide=false to display the icon

Hide=false

Suggestion:

Place a shortcut to SHUTOPTN.EXE in your Startup group and the Shutdown default will be changed 'permanently'. To restore the Windows 95 default, just remove SHUTOPTN.EXE from your startup group. No changes are made to the Registry or to any other system files.


ShutDown

SHUTDOWN.EXE

This utility is designed to automate tasks before shutting down Windows 95. It performs in a similar manner to the startup folder (ie it runs programs in a specified folder before shutting down your computer).

The default folder is 'ShutDown' although you can override this in the WINUTILS.INI file by specifying the name in the Folder item (see below).

You can easily create this folder as follows:

•	Right Click on the Start button and select Open

•	Double Click the Programs folder

•	Now create a new folder by right clicking on an empty area and selecting New / Folder

•	You can now rename the folder as required (eg to Shutdown)

You can then make shortcuts to all your shutdown tasks in the 'Shutdown' folder by dragging them from Windows Explorer. DOS BATch files or Windows programs can be included.

Some examples of shutdown tasks to perform are:

•	Backup programs

•	Copying files to floppy disk or to the network

•	Automatic disk scanning

•	Deleting files from your TEMP folder

•	Sending warning messages to other users

•	Printing log files

After the shortcuts in the Shutdown folder have started, the program will wait for a number of seconds before closing down Windows 95. This is to ensure that they all complete properly. The number of seconds can be entered into the [Shutdown] section in the WINUTILS.INI file using the Delay item as shown below. If there is no entry, the default is 10 seconds and this is the minimum time. It is important to ensure that there is a sufficient delay for all the applications to complete otherwise unpredictable results may occur.

In the example below, I have entered 600 seconds for the delay (10 minutes). My shutdown folder contains a DOS BATch file to XCOPY my data files from one disk to another. This process normally takes about 6 minutes although I have added extra time 'just in case'.

The Shutdown process displays a window showing the number of seconds remaining before the system will be closed down. If you wish to abort this process, just select the CANCEL button.

WINUTILS.INI

[Shutdown]

; Name of the Shutdown folder

Folder=shutdown

; Number of seconds to wait before closing the system down

Delay=600

NOTES:

•	You must use the SHUTDOWN utility if you wish to run the programs in your Shutdown folder. If you use the normal method of shutting down Windows 95 (or use ENDWIN) the programs will NOT run

•	If the Shutdown folder does not exist, you will receive an error dialog when you run SHUTDOWN

•	If there are no shortcuts in the Shutdown folder, this utility will operate exactly as ENDWIN but with a countdown facility

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program on your Windows 95 desktop or on the Start button.


StartSnd

STARTSND.EXE

This utility was written for Andrew Jobes who wrote:

Does anyone have a program for win95 that recognises what time it is on startup, and then plays a sound specific to that time. ie.  6am to 11am it plays "Good Morning sound"

Operation:

The times and sounds to play are controlled from the WINUTILS.INI file as follows:

WINUTILS.INI

[StartSnd]

; The number of sound events in your list

; The shareware version is limited to 2

NoSnds=2

; Times for the first event (ie when time is between time1f and time1s)

time1f=21

time1s=23

; This is the sound to play between 9:00pm and 11:00pm

sound1=c:\sound\snore.wav

; First time for second event

time2f=9

; Second time for second event

time2s=11

; Sound to play between 9:00am and 11:00am

sound2=c:\sound\glass1.wav

Subsequent entries would be:

time3f=

time3s=

sound3=

etc.

Suggestion: Create a shortcut or icon in your Startup group to play an appropriate sound when your computer starts.

NOTE:

•	STARTSND works with Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT


DefPrint

DEFPRINT.EXE <printer>

This Windows 95 / NT utility was written for Kevin Cowans who wrote:

Is there anyway to set the Default Printer via a script? I need to do this via a Windows NT Logon Script so that I can specify which Printer specific users use as default.

Operation:

You must pass DEFPRINT the initial letter of the printer you wish to be the default as a parameter.

So, if your printers are:

Generic / Text Only

HP Laserjet

Microsoft Fax

you would use:

DEFPRINT.EXE H	to make the HP the default

DEFPRINT.EXE G	to make the Generic Printer the default

NOTES:

If you have two (or more) printers with the same initial letter, use the following convention:

DEFPRINT.EXE H	to choose the first

DEFPRINT.EXE HH	to choose the second

Suggestion: Put a shortcut to this utility in your Startup group so the default printer is set every time you start your PC.

NOTE:

•	DEFPRINT works with Windows 95 and Windows NT


EndShare

ENDSHARE.EXE

This Windows 95 utility was written for Jeff Harman who wrote:

I'm looking for a program that I can run on a Win95 peer-to-peer network so I can cold boot the machines without windows giving me a sharing problem with X number of users attached to your computer.

Operation:

Start ENDSHARE and it sits on the taskbar in exactly the same way as SHUTOPTN. When you shutdown using Start / Shut Down, it will detect the Sharing dialog and provide a default answer (in this case, 'Yes') allowing the shutdown to proceed.

Place a shortcut to ENDSHARE.EXE in your Startup group and the Sharing dialog will be detected every time you Shut Down your PC. To restore display of the Sharing dialog, just remove ENDSHARE.EXE from your startup group. No changes are made to the Registry or to any other system files.

ENDSHARE will normally place an icon on the Windows 95 taskbar. By right clicking on this icon you can close ENDSHARE and restore the Windows 95 default. If you do not wish to see the icon on your taskbar you can include the Hide=true entry in the [EndShare] section of WINUTILS.INI.

NOTES:

•	ENDSHARE only works reliably when Shut Down is initiated from the Start menu. When used with ENDWIN, RESTWIN or other methods it can lock up the PC. This problem is being investigated.

•	The option to hide the icon only works with the registered version

WINUTILS.INI

[EndShare]

; If Hide=true, the icon is hidden whilst running

; Set Hide=false to display the icon

Hide=false

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program in your Windows 95 Startup group.


Shortcut

Creating a Shortcut

These instructions show you how to create a shortcut to a utility using Windows 95 and how to pass a parameter to it.

Let's use TIMEPROG as an example:

•	Open Explorer and highlight TIMEPROG.EXE

•	Click and drag the file onto the desktop and let go of the mouse button. You have now created a shortcut to TIMEPROG on your desktop.

•	Click once on the shortcut with your right mouse button and select Properties.

•	Go to Shortcut / Target to add parameters to the shortcut:

eg C:\WINUTILS\TIMEPROG NOTEPAD.EXE, 1

Select OK to save your changes.

Now, when you double click on the shortcut it will open notepad and close it down automatically after 1 minute.

Other utilities use exactly the same procedure. Note that you may need to pass the full path name of files in some cases (eg PLAYSND C:\WINDOWS\CHIMES.WAV)


INIEDIT

INIEDIT.EXE

This utility is used to edit the WINUTILS.INI file to simplify changes to the various utilities. It uses the Windows Notepad to edit the file.

If the WINUTILS.INI file is NOT present, you will receive an error message showing the folder that WINUTILS.INI is expected to be in (eg C:\WINUTILS).


Installation

Installing

Copy all of the files into any folder (eg C:\WINUTILS). To make life easier for you, the folder should be included in your PATH as follows:

If the file C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT does not exist then create it with Notepad, for example

If there is no PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT then add the following line:

PATH=%PATH%;C:\WINUTILS

If a PATH statement does exist, then add the WINUTILS folder to it, for example:

Old PATH:

PATH=C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS

New PATH:

PATH=C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINUTILS

NOTES:

•	Substitute the name of your folder containing WINUTILS for the C:\WINUTILS entry

•	You will need to reboot your PC after making these changes.

You can then create icons or shortcuts to the utilities for ease of use.

Uninstalling

No files are installed in any other folder (directory) and NO changes are made to any system files (eg WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI or the Windows 95 registry).

The WINUTILS can be uninstalled simply by deleting the files from their default folder (eg C:\WINUTILS). Don't forget to change the PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT if you amended it.


Payment

Registering

Registered users will be eligible for support and will receive details of bug fixes and upgrades via Email.

To receive the registration code to run ALL of these utilities on a single PC, please send US$20 (or the equivalent in your local currency) to:

David Aylott

2/35 Bertram Street

ELSTERNWICK VIC 3185

Australia

Print out and complete the ORDER.TXT file to make this process easier.

Please note that cash is preferred as the banks are expensive for converting foreign cheques. Cheques in AUS$ or UK£ are perfectly acceptable.

Please Email daylott@bigfoot.com first if you are in Australia or the UK, as other payment options are available (eg direct deposit to bank accounts).

It is now possible to register some of the utilities (eg SHUTOPTN) individually. To receive the cost, please contact us via Email or post and indicate the name of the utility (or utilities) you wish to register. Many of the utilities are worth the registration amount on their own and, in these cases, the full fee will be payable. Other Shareware versions of SHUTDOWN, for example, cost more than double the registration fee for ALL of these utilities.

The following list details the most popular utilities and the cost to run them on a single PC:

CLOSEALL	US$5

SHUTOPTN	US$5

NPAD / WPAD	US$5

RUNQUIT	US$5

RESTWIN / ENDWIN	US$5

Note: for these small amounts, cash is much preferred.

If you wish to negotiate multiple or site licences, please contact us.

Do remember to include the following:

•	The version of WINUTILS you are using

•	Where you discovered WINUTILS

•	Your e-mail (or street) address or a fax number for the registration code

•	A self addressed envelope if you wish to receive the registration details by post

•	An additional amount to cover postage or fax costs (not required if an e-mail address is supplied)

•	Any comments or suggestions for improvements you may have

•	For individual registrations, the name(s) of the utilities you wish to use


Closewin

CLOSEWIN.EXE (<Window Name>)

This Windows 95 utility will close down all Explorer windows and folders on the Windows 95 desktop but will NOT close down applications that are running.

If a parameter is passed to CLOSEWIN (eg CLOSEWIN Window Name), only those Explorer windows containing the text Window Name in the title bar will be closed.

eg:

CLOSEWIN.EXE - this will close down ALL Explorer windows and folders

CLOSEWIN accessories - this will close down only those Explorer windows and folders with accessories in the title bar

NOTES:

•	The evaluation version will close down a maximum of four windows. The registered version will close down ALL Explorer windows and folders

•	Window Name is NOT case sensitive - CLOSEWIN programs will close all windows containing the text Programs, PROGRAMS or programs, for example

•	Window Name can be one or more words (eg CLOSEWIN Microsoft Office)

•	CLOSEWIN works with Windows 95

Suggestion: Place a shortcut to this program on your Windows 95 desktop or on the Start button. It is particularly useful if you browse folders using a separate window for each folder - CLOSEWIN closes them all down quickly and easily.