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- Windows users have long enjoyed the fact that when you start
- Windows, you could have Windows automatically start any programs
- simply by putting the program's icon into the 'StartUp' group.
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- Wouldn't it be great to have a similar 'ShutDown' group that right
- before Windows exited, it would run these 'WrapUp' type programs
- automatically for you? Imagine the uses for such a program...
-
- You could automatically:
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- - Backup your PC's hard disk(s).
- - Log out of your PC network (LAN).
- - Synchronize your laptop PC's hard disk with your desktop
- PC's hard disk or visa versa.
- - Access your favorite online stock-quote system and retrieve
- your latest stock prices.
- - Send an email message.
- - Run your communications program and have it autodial your
- significant other, so you could pick up the telephone and
- tell him/her that you're on your way home.
- - Or any DOS program or batch file that can be run from within
- Windows.
- - Eject the CD-ROM disk from your drive.
- - Or anything else for that matter...
-
- WrapUp is compatible with Windows 95, NT, and 3.1.
-
-
- To install under Windows 95:
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- Copy the following files to any single area of your PC's disk:
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- WrapUp.exe
- WrapUp.hlp
- WrapUp32.dll
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- A typical destination might be: C:\TNT\WRAPUP
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- Start Windows 95.
-
- Open your 'StartUp' folder from the Start-Programs menu. If you
- don't have a 'StartUp' folder, create one... Then create a new icon
- for WrapUp so that it will automatically execute whenever Windows
- 95 is executed. Don't run it yet...
-
- Decide on the name for your new folder that WrapUp will access when
- Windows starts to exit. We recommend the name 'ShutDown'. If you
- want any name other than 'ShutDown', you must use the /g command
- line option. See /g (alternative Group name) command line option
- for more information.
-
- Create your new "ShutDown" folder. The folder must directly reside
- off of the Start-Programs folder/menu (for example, the same menu
- that the Accessories folder resides in). Do not create a folder
- directly on your Desktop. This won't work! You can, however, create
- a short-cut on your Desktop that points to the Programs
- folder/menu.
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- Move or copy your favorite programs' icons into your new 'Shutdown'
- folder.
-
-
- To install under Windows NT or Windows 3.1:
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- Copy the following files to any single area of your PC's disk:
-
- WrapUp.exe
- WrapUp.hlp
- WrapUp32.dll
-
- A typical destination might be: C:\TNT\WRAPUP
-
- Start Windows in either 'Standard' or 'Enhanced' mode. WrapUp can
- not run in 'Real' mode.
-
- Open your 'StartUp' group. Create a new icon for WrapUp so that it
- will automatically execute whenever Windows is executed. Don't run
- it yet...
-
- Decide on the name for your new group that WrapUp will access when
- Windows starts to exit. We recommend the name 'ShutDown'. If you
- want any name other than 'ShutDown', you must use the /g command
- line option. See /g (alternative Group name) command line option
- for more information.
-
- Create your new 'Shutdown' group.
-
- Move or copy your favorite programs' icons into your new shutdown
- group.
-
-
- To operate under Windows 95:
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- Restart Windows 95.
-
- Observe that WrapUp is running.
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- Shut down Windows 95 by selecting "Start-Shut Down-Shut Down the
- computer?". WrapUp will then wake up, and ask you via a dialog box,
- if you want to close all of your currently running desktop
- programs, and then it will execute all of the programs in your
- shutdown group. Saying YES will do the above. Saying NO, will
- simply exit Windows 95. Saying CANCEL, will abort the exiting of
- Windows 95. You may override the default operation of WrapUp so
- that it won't present you with the above dialog box by appending a
- /N to the command line. In this mode, upon detecting Windows 95
- starting to shutdown, WrapUp will automatically close your desktop
- programs and then execute all of your shutdown group programs.
-
- When you are finally ready to exit Windows 95, shut down Windows.
- This time, WrapUp will not intervene (since it already executed
- your shutdown programs) and you will truly exit Windows 95.
-
-
- To operate under Windows NT or Windows 3.1:
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- Restart Windows.
-
- Observe that WrapUp is running.
-
- Exit Windows. You will get the familiar Windows "Are you sure you
- want to close" dialog box. Say YES. WrapUp will then wake up, and
- ask you via a dialog box, if you want to close all of your
- currently running desktop programs, and then it will execute all of
- the programs in your shutdown group. Saying YES will do the above.
- Saying NO, will simply exit Windows. Saying CANCEL, will abort the
- exiting of Windows. You may override the default operation of
- WrapUp so that it won't present you with the above dialog box by
- appending a /N to the command line. In this mode, upon detecting
- Windows starting to exit, WrapUp will automatically close your
- desktop programs and then execute all of your shutdown group
- programs.
-
- When you are finally ready to exit Windows, exit Windows. This
- time, WrapUp will not intervene (since it already executed your
- shutdown programs) and you will truly exit Windows.
-
-
- To uninstall:
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- Delete WrapUp.exe, WrapUp.hlp and WrapUp.dll from your disk.
-
-
- Notes:
-
- Upon detecting Windows starting to exit, WrapUp closes all of your
- desktop programs so that after it then executes the programs in
- your shutdown group, it will be easy to determine which programs
- you need to deal with. They're the only programs left executing on
- your desktop.
-
- LAN administrators can easily manage WrapUp by simply insuring that
- the proper shutdown group (GRP) file is present for proper
- operation. If the user is already running Windows in a LAN
- environment, then the proper group files are already present and no
- extra effort will be required. Please remember that one copy of
- WrapUp must be purchased for each and every user of WrapUp.
-
- You can control the execution order of both your StartUp and
- ShutDown group's programs by modifying their GRP files. TNT's
- Grp2Ini program can make it easy for you to do this.
-
- WrapUp memorizes the contents of your shutdown group when you first
- run WrapUp. If you modify your shutdown group's contents while
- WrapUp is running, then WrapUp will not detect these changes. In
- this case, you'll need to terminate WrapUp and then re-execute it
- so that it will re-examine the new contents of your shutdown group.
- This WrapUp behavior is due to limitations in Windows.
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- Non Windows Program Manager users (such as Norton DeskTop, PCTools
- MultiDesk DeskTop, and Windows NT) must modify WrapUp's command
- line with the /Pxxxx option so that WrapUp can correctly access the
- contents of the shutdown group. In order to do this, you must issue
- a WrapUp File-Modules pull-down menu command to see a list of
- desktop programs and their module names. Identify the name of your
- program manger program and its module. This module must be entered
- on WrapUp's command line as a /P option. For example, Windows 3.1's
- Program Manager's module name is 'PROGMAN'. Windows 95's Explorer's
- (Program Manager's) module name is 'Explorer'. Below is a list of
- known alternative program managers and their associated /P option.
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- Windows NT: /PWOWEXEC
- PCTools MultiDesk: /PWNDTLIB
- HP DashBoard /PDASH
-
- Command line syntax: WrapUp [/N] [/Gxxx] [/Pxxx]
-
- Note: At least one space must appear in between each switch.
-
-
- WrapUp is NOT freeware. Only unregistered evaluation versions of
- WrapUp may be freely distributed as shareware. Registered (paid
- for) versions of WrapUp may NOT be shared.
-
- If you are unsure as to if your copy of WrapUp is registered or
- not, examine the Help-About screen for your name. If it says
- "UNREGISTERED..." then your are executing an evaluation version of
- WrapUp.
-
- Evaluation versions of WrapUp will only execute one of your
- programs that appear in your startup group. The remaining programs
- will not be executed, however for each remaining program, WrapUp
- will present a message to you stating that your program would have
- run in a purchased version of WrapUp.
-
- If you like this program, send $39 dollars plus $5 shipping and
- handling for a single user license. Multi-user and site licenses
- are available. Upon receipt of payment, a registered version will
- be shipped to you. Registered users will be notified of future
- versions.
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- Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 6.0
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- San Ramon, Ca. 94583
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