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- Start Menu Changer'97 Readme file.
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- ATTENTION!: If your Windows 95 version is not United States (US), Pan
- European (PE), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish,
- Portuguese, Russian or Swedish DON`T RUN this program.
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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:
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- Setup.exe - The installation.
- StartMC.ex_ - The program.
- Remove.ex_ - The uninstallation.
- Readme.txt - The program information. (This file).
- Readme.fra - French translation of this Readme file.
- Sharewre.txt - The concept of Shareware.
- History.txt - Start Menu Changer history.
- File_id.diz - Small program description.
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- Alexey\Icon16.ic_ - Cool Mac icon (Size 16x16 with 16 colors)
- Alexey\Index.sm_ - index file with options
- Alexey\Logo.bm_ - My Win98 logo, height = 100
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- Win98\Icon16.ic_
- Win98\Index.sm_
- Win98\Logo.bm_
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- Sample\Icon10.ic_ - Icon sample (Size 10x10 with 16 colors)
- Sample\Icon12.ic_ - 12x12
- Sample\Icon14.ic_ - 14x14
- Sample\Icon16.ic_ - 16x16
- Sample\Icon22.ic_ - 22x22
- Sample\Icon32.ic_ - 32x32
- Sample\Index.sm_ - Index file with all allowed options
- Sample\Logo.bm_ - Logo sample, height = 76
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- Q: How to register the software?
- A: 1. Send cash by mail in your own currency (no coins) for a value of $5 USD.
- Also include your own email adress so that I'll know where to send the
- registration code. When I recieve your payment , you will recieve (only by
- email) your registration password.
- Alexey Vasilyev
- Poruka 13-68
- Ventspils
- Latvia, LV 3600
- 2. You can try to send money by using credit card and after that send me
- email.
- Alexey Vasilyev 016716445 Unibank of Latvia SWIFT - UNLALV2X
-
- Q: What is the 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 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 changing?
- 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 registry.
- To restore your original files press button Restore.
- To enable your changes you have to restart your Windows 95.
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- Q: I have trouble with starting Windows 95.
- A: If you have problems with starting Windows 95 or restoring your orgiginal
- settings, boot into command line and copy these *.sav files to *.exe files.
- If you still have problems then 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 )
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- Q: How can I change start menu vertical logo?
- A: First of all, you have to create bitmap file (21x130 with 16 colors). Run
- Windows Paint, choose size 21x130, draw what you like and then save
- picture as 16 colors bitmap file. Then you can run Start Menu Changer
- and there 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 in 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 compress BMP I've seen is Borland Resource Workshop.
-
- Q: My vertical logo is cuted and after it are some incorrect colors.
- A: To correct colors run Start Menu Changer and there decrease logo height.
- Anyway, there always will be cuted logo because Start Menu Changer rewrites
- exisitng 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 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 this picture (or options) will
- not be changed in Windows.
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- NOTE: Unchecked Run, Find, Settings and Shutdown will not appear in
- Explorer at all until you'll again check them in Start Menu Changer'97.
- This happens because Start Menu Changer'97 also modifies registry.
-
- KNOWN BUGS: -> In Russian version is not removing Run from start menu
- (Microsoft's bug).
- -> Doesn't determine PE version because Explorer.exe file is the
- same as in US version, anyway, check PE version if you are using it.
- -> Dosn't support IE 4.0 shell integration. 'Read beyond end of
- file' message occurs.
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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 with ,if you have, 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