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FloatMenu

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FloatMenu puts a very small, stay-on-top menu on your desktop.

Use it launch up to 66 of your favorite programs or files.

It can also be used as a line marker.

Left-clicking on it brings up a menu of selected shortcuts,

while a right-click pops up an options menu.

FloatMenu initially appears in the upper-right-hand corner of the

desktop, but you can move it wherever you like.

Options let you resize it, change its color and save your preferences

and position.

Install:

FloatMenu needs the VB5run to be installed.

Also needs Iconmenu32.ocx, Comdlg32.ocx and Stkit432.dll,

included with this setup.

If you don't have the VB5run then download the VB5run2 at

http://www.mslm.com/free.htm

To install FloatMenu, double click Setup.exe and select a path

for it to be installed in.

FloatMenu doesn't make any entries or changes to the Registry

or System files.

Reinstall:

Select the Reinstall option in Setup.exe, be sure to reinstall in the same

directory as previously installed.

Close FloatMenu before installing.

Uninstall:

Right click FloatMenu and select "Remove from Startup",

then right click it again and select Exit, then delete the Startmenu

directory.

Instructions

To add items to FloatMenu, right click it,

Select Add Items, Additem.exe will popup.

1- Select file or directory to add to FloatMenu, be sure

    the correct  path is transfered to the top/right text box.

2- Give it a name in the top/left text box.

3- Then click the Add Item button.

 Examples how it should like when added:

 Notepad<C:\Windows\Notepad.exe

 To have FloatMenu open a directory, it should look like this:

 Windows<C:\Windows

 The character  <  is a separator for FloatMenu to distinguish

 between name and path.

4- To remove items, delete the line in the large text box and

    remove spaces between lines.

5- Click Sort alphabetically to sort items in alphabetical

    order.

6- To add separators between menu items:

 example on how to add a separator after Notepad,

 Notepad<C:\windows\Notepad.exe

 Notepada<@

 The Notepada<@ will be a separator, notice the added letter

 "a"  to Notepad so it will fall alphabetically after Notepad.

 The @ tells FloatMenu to make it a separator.

7- Example to add a URL to the menu:

 MSLM<http://www.mslm.com

 Microsoft<http://www.microsoft.com

 But it will not have an icon, point it to an Internet shortcut

 in order to have an icon.

8- If you have IE40 or Win98, add this path to the Floatmenu

    Desktop<C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Show Desktop.scf

    With this you can toggle viewing the Desktop.

    Considering C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM is the windows\System path in

    your computer.

Note: For DOS program, point FloatMenu to a shortcut of the DOS

program instead of the EXE, so it will show the MS-DOS icon,

otherwise it will show a generic icon.

Click Sort alphabetically to sort items in alphabetical order.

Note: After sorting alphabetically you can place your most favorites

         anywhere you like manually.

Once you have added the all items and clicked Save and Exit,

that will restart FloatMenu with 2 second wait.

There is no work around that at the time being, the OCX wouldn't

refresh an icon menu unless you restart the program.

To add FloatMenu to the Startup folder, right click it and click Add to startup,

to remove it click Remove from Startup.

To move FloatMenu, drag and drop it, grab the very far right side of

it with the mouse, and drop it. Doing that would not open the menu.

To open the FloatMenu, click on 80% of the left side of it.

All shortcuts are saved in Menu1.dat and and preferences in Pref.dat

in the FloatMenu directory.

Other features:

You can make it as a  line marker, right click the FloatMenu

and select and experiment  with its many options.

Get the line the Focus and you can press Alt+D to bring the line down

or Alt+U to bring it up.

Set color desired and position desired, right click the FloatMenu and

click save Position, size and color, next time you start computer or

FloatMenu it will popup in the same position and color as you saved it.

FloatMenu now executes every thing including Dialup networking,

but don't add  MyComputer, Recycle Ben.

Right click FloatMenu and select Open, with that you can browse any

program you like, it is just an added feature.

ClipIt

ClipIt doesn't automatically copy the clipboard, you have to

simply click it when you want to copy the clipboard.

Copies only the Text part of the clipboard in black and white,

will be working on it to copy the clipboard in richtext

in the future.

It becomes handy when you are copying notes or surfing the

Internet, you can quickly add as you please a URL, address

or any thing else rather than saving it somewhere and waste

your time looking for it.

Every time you start ClipIt, it will check the time and date stamp

on a file called Date.txt, if Date.txt is older than 24 then it will

automatically save your yesterdays notes and name it with today's

date, e.g. May15.rtf, then creates new ClipIt.rtf to save your today's

notes and inserts current date.

Then delete and recreate a new Date.txt to know when the 24 hours

has passed..

To view your notes, click ClipItView icon.

To view older notes in ClipItView , click the scroll bar in the top right

hand corner file box, it will open and select your daily notes per date.

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FloatMenu now is a Freeware

Copyright © 1998. All Rights Reserved

Theodore Fattaleh author, programmer and publisher.

All Program Names are Registered Trademarks of

their Respective Owner.

http://www.mslm.com

2000ted@gte.net

2000@msn.com

2000ted@compuserve.com

Other Freeware and Shareware:

ERS98, Win95/98 Emergency Recovery System ($25)

MinuteMan Data Backup($25)

MyNotes (Freeware)

AttriBat (Freeware)

Right Start Menu (Freeware)

FloatMenu (Freeware)

Alarm (Freeware)

RGB Color Converter (Freeware)

LFN Backup and Restore  (Freeware)

Coming soon MiniApps, it's mini utilities.