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- Icon Corral 2.0
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- The Icon Corral allows you to prevent specific programs from
- adding entries to the taskbar. This is good for reducing
- taskbar clutter caused by programs such as Schedule+, PPP dialer,
- perfmon, clock, e-mail notify, iconbar, etc. Icon Corral optionally
- uses taskbar notification area icons (you know, those ones
- by the clock) to hold minimized windows without taskbar entries.
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- New features in 2.0:
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- + Even non-minimized programs can have their taskbar entry hidden
- + You can now hide by executable name
- + You can configure the taskbar behavior of an executable by a new
- tab on its property page
- + You can drag and drop shortcuts and exe's to the iconcorral setup dialog
- + Notify icons are updated periodically
- + You can choose to give each minimized entry its own notify icon or not
- + There is now a setup and uninstall program
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- Setup
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- If you are upgrading from an older version of Icon Corral or a beta of
- 2.0 without uninstall, you should first do a manual uninstall:
- + delete the shortcut in Startup, if you have one there
- + remove IconCorl.exe (optional)
- + if you're upgrading from a beta of 2.0, remove taskhide.dll
- You do not need to worry about cleaning up .ini files or the registry.
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- To install 2.0, run setup.exe from the distribution files. Setup will by default
- install The Icon Corral into your 'Program Files' directory, and it will
- automatically create a shortcut to Icon Corral in your startup group.
- Once The Icon Corral is installed, you can delete all distribution files.
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- To uninstall The Icon Corral, use the Add/Remove Programs control panel
- applet.
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- Usage
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- Once Icon Corral is installed and running, there are several ways
- to configure the taskbar behavior. The coolest way is to invoke the
- property page for an executable: Icon Corral 2.0 adds a new property
- sheet called 'Taskbar' that lets you configure an exe's taskbar behavior.
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- You can also configure the Icon Corral off the context menu of any of
- Icon Corral's notify icons. This brings up the global configuration
- dialog which lets you add, remove, edit, and drag-and-drop entries.
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- Configuration, either way it is done, is fairly similar.
- A series of checkboxes and radio buttons let you choose what you
- want hidden (an executable or window) and how (always or just when
- minimized), and whether or not the entry will get its own notify
- icon when minimized. If you choose to hide by window title, you can even
- use wildcards (*) in this specification. There is also an option
- for overriding the default taskbar notification icon.
- Dragging executables and/or shortcuts to the global setup dialog
- creates default specs that can easily be edited.
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- When Icon Corral finds any taskbar entry that meets spec, it will
- remove it from the taskbar and add a new notify icon if approprate.
- Left-clicking on a notify icon will restore the corresponding
- program. Right-clicking allows you to do the normal context menu
- stuff plus it will let you configure/exit the Icon Corral, and restore
- any completely hidden programs (that is, those minimized without their
- own notify icons). When Icon Corral isn't showing any custom notify
- icons it shows its own icon.
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- Bonus: Icon Corral adds 'Disconnect' to Win95 PPP Dialer's context menu.
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- Notes
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- + The minimized programs dissapear from the ALT+TAB chain, maximized
- ones do not.
- + Icon Corral does not restore taskbar entries for non-minimized
- programs when it exits. To remedy, simply minimize and restore
- the window in question.
- + Some executables are not what you'd expect. For example pbrush.exe
- in c:/windows really just loads paint.exe elsewhere on the system.
- PPP dialer is half explorer.exe and half rnaapp.exe
- + The mouse pointer may move over that Start button while loading (yes,
- I'm working on a fix)
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- Registration
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- Please register this product if you decide to keep it. Your support
- will help make future versions and other products possible. Send $5 to:
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- Eric Askilsrud
- 14322 148th PL SE
- Renton, WA 98059
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- -Eric Askilsrud
- erask@cs.washington.edu
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