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WELCOME TO WINDOWS REMINDER! This disk contains Windows Reminder 2.30a For a list of items that are new for this release, just press the F1 key in Reminder to see the Help file. Then select "Revision History" for a complete list of new features. Here is a partial list of some of the more exciting new features. 1. You can now seach items for key words or parts of words. See the View Search menu. 2. You can make repeating items that keep a history. See the Edit Repeat item daily menus 3. Calendar has been improved to skip weekends for repeating items. 4. Sound, sound and more sounds. You can have sounds based on your chime, when an alarm goes off based on a category and even have the time in spoken words, like "Ten thirty" with the sound module. WINDOWS REMINDER Functional and Powerful Windows Reminder is a new time management program written exclusively for the new Windows. The program is both simple to use, yet powerful enough to do your work for you without you having to be there! Functional Windows Reminder was designed to let you set up and view your appointments as easily as possible. You can visually see the times you have scheduled in the graph display. The graph also allows you to click on the time you want to enter a new item for. Items or tasks are sorted by date and time which places all items needing attention at the top so you can "see" what is next on your list. A time is not required so you can still enter a task that needs to be done that day. Enter in a time and Windows Reminder will automatically set the alarm to display your message or run other programs. A repeat option is also provided for daily, weekly, monthly, and end of month events. Windows Reminder displays the time and date when running as an icon so you can always keep track of what time it is. Set up "To Do" or "Task" lists for yourself and others to keep track of dates, times and milestones. Set alarms to remind you of items that have to be done or places you have to be. You can set reminder to chime on the hour, 1/2 and 1/4 hour. If you have Multimedia installed, you will hear the chimes from Control Panel. Set alarms to start other tasks without you being there. Generate status reports at any time based on the items you have done and that are still on your list of items that need to be done or need your attention. Collect the time spent on each item for time management reports. Windows Reminder keeps track of when items are completed and creates a log file when you delete your items to a file (see the Options Preference menu) to set this. Versatile You can group your items by category for easy viewing and printing of status reports. The category list can be used to schedule what others in your group need to be on top of. This helps with daily assignments and long term goals by allowing you to schedule different intervals in which to monitor your progress. You can also assign your own personal priorities, like ASAP, by replacing the time field for each item. As you enter each item, they are sorted automatically by date and time or by your own personal priorities so that you can always see what is next on your list of items to do. For easy viewing, dates are displayed in different colors depending if they are past, present or future items to do or if they are done so that you can instantly "see" what needs to be done next. Ease of use Windows Reminder makes it as simple as possible to enter and edit items by taking full advantage of a Control Bar with three dimensional buttons, full keyboard support, a Calendar program, Pen Windows support, and a sophisticated Online Help complete with "Jump Words" for easy access and look-up. The Windows Reminder Control bar gives you quick access to editing and viewing items along with a corresponding key on the keyboard to allow you the same access. The current time is displayed on the right side of the control bar and an alarm picture is displayed only when there is a time set to go off for the current day. This gives you the added benefit of adding items that have to be done a certain day, but have no set time. The Edit section of the Control bar allows you to quickly edit an item. To create a new item to be reminded of, you can choose the "+" button on the Control Bar, or the "+" key on the keyboard or the Edit Add menu item, or the F5 function key, or double click on the day you want in the Calendar program. The View section of the Control bar allows you to quickly view the items by past, present, future and done dates. To view just those items you need to do from the past and today, you just select the left arrow (for past) and the down arrow (for now or today). If you also want to view what you have done for the same time frame, just press the "check" button. You can use the F9-F12 keys to "press" the same buttons or use the View menu commands. The asterisk at the end is for viewing everything at once by pressing all the buttons down. Windows Reminder comes with a Calendar program that lets you view the days in a month and scroll to other months and years. It can even print calanders! If Windows Reminder isn't running, Calendar will start it for you by double- clicking on a date. The Enter New Item dialog is automatically brought up for you with the selected date already placed in the date field for you. Anytime the Edit Item dialog is up, you can use Calendar to enter or change the date and time just by clicking the mouse on the date you want and using the right mouse button to select the time. Powerful Date Transfer and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) Windows Reminder data is copied to the clipboard as tab delimited text that can then be used with any editor and any spreadsheet program or other program that accepts a tab delimited ASCII file. Windows Reminder will also accept data from the clipboard that is only space delimited for easy importing. Windows Reminder supports Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) as both a Client starting other DDE conversations requesting information and also as a Server so that data can be passed back and forth with other DDE programs. A sample Template file for Microsoft Word for Windows and macro sheet for Microsoft Excel is supplied to show you how you can automatically generate different reports with different combinations of monthly and/or items listed by a specific "category". Powerful Alarm actions Windows Reminder allows a number of different Actions to take place when an alarm goes off. You select the action to take place when you enter your message and it can be changed at any time. The Run Action will automatically have Reminder start another Windows or DOS application. Run DDE will start a DDE conversation with another application to run a macro that gathers information from a data base or electronic news service that places the information into another application. When an alarm goes off, your message is displayed for you. You are then given 4 choices of what you want to do with the message. The first is nothing so that you can decide what you want to do with it later. You can select the Mark as Done check box to indicate you no longer need to be reminded of the message. If you are busy when the message is displayed you can set the Repeat in ? minutes, a "snooze" option and press the Reset Time button so the message will be displayed again in the extra time you selected. This is really handy when you are on the phone. Selecting the Re-schedule button brings up the message for editing so you can change the date, time or any other information. You can reset the item to the next day, week, month or year and it will also bump the day to Mondya if you use the "Business Day option. When the Run with Prompt or Run DDE with Prompt action item is selected or you select the Option Run menu command, the Run dialog will be displayed. Here you will see the message you had scheduled if it was from an alarm going off, or you can change or enter any command to start up another application or enter in a DDE command. You don't have to run Program Manager or File Manager to start another application. PACKING LIST: With this version you have the following files: REMINDER EXE The Reminder program. CAL EXE The integrated calendar program. CTL3D DLL The DLL that give the 3D look to dialogs. ITEMS CAT The "category" data base file - Press F4 to add more. ITEMS DAT Tutorial data file. README TXT This File REMINDER HLP The Reminder Help file - press F1 to display it. WWWDBMS DLL The data base engine INSTALL BAT Manual setup program in case SETUP.EXE doesn't work for you. WSETUP EXE The setup program WSETUP2 OVL More of the setup program WSETUP INF The setup script file ON-LINE SUPPORT LED Software has on-line support for registered users! The home of LED Software is on Compuserve, in the WINSHARE forum, in the Windows Shareware section. The rest of this file contains the following information: ) Information on our fully functional demos and our "Registration Reminder" screens. ) A basic, consise explanation of our disclaimers. ) Generic installation instructions for our software, including a section on manual installations. ) Generic uninstall instructions. ) Our update policy. ) The long, drawn out legalese section, software license information, limited warranty, trademarks, etc. ) Ordering information. ) International Ordering Information. ) Order Form. REGISTRATION REMINDERS Unlicensed copies of LED Software products are 100% fully functional. We make them this way so that you can have a real look at them, and then decide whether they fit your needs or not. Our entire business depends on your honesty. If you use it, we expect you to pay for it. We feel that if we treat you right, you will treat us right. Unlicensed copies of our products do have a pesky registration reminder screen that pops up whenever you start the program. This shouldn't really affect your evaluation of our software for 20 days. We're sure that once you see the incredible quality of our software, you will dig out your credit card, pick up the phone, call the nice people at our 800 number and register the software. When you pay for the shareware you like, you are voting with your pocketbook, and will encourage us to bring you more of the same kinds of products. LEGAL MATTERS Of course the usual disclaimers still apply. We are not responsible for anything at all. Nothing. Even if we are held responsible, the limit of our liability is the licensing fees you paid. The full text of our license agreement is found near the bottom of this file. HOW TO INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE Use our snazzy setup program... 1) Close down all extraneous Windows applications. (You do have to be in Windows to run SETUP.EXE) 2) Double-Click on the SETUP.EXE program. 3) When the setup program asks for a directory, specify initial directory, or accept the given default. 4) When the screen comes up that asks you what you want to install, do your selections, or just hit the INSTALL ALL button. Hit the OK button to continue. ******************** MANUAL INSTALL ********************* If you cannot use the snazzy setup program, you can run INSTALL.BAT from MS-DOS or a DOS window. It defaults to copying the files to C:\REMINDER 1) Most files to be installed by the installation program end in an underscore "_". They are not compressed. You may simply rename the files to the correct name. 2) In general, the DLL files should go into your WINDOWS directory. UN-INSTALL INFORMATION The snazzy setup program will create a DOS batch file - UNINSTAL.BAT in the target directory that will un-install the product just installed. You may either review the batch file and perform a manual uninstall, or, if you have not installed any products *after* installing this product, go ahead and run the batch file. If you have installed several products before deciding to uninstall this, the uninstall will *generally* work successfully. The only problem that occurs is when this product installs a file that the other products use. In general, this will only be a problem when you install several of our products, and will be much less of a problem if you install products from other vendors. If problems occur, generally all that is required is to re-install the product that is complaining about the lack of a file. A quick review of the uninstall bat file, deleting a line or two for files you know are used by other products may be all that is required to successfully run the uninstall. UPDATE POLICY It is the policy of LED Software to protect faithful customers, and to derive the majority of our income via sales to new customers rather than continually attempting to extract more funds from existing customers. Of course we must at least cover our costs or we could not stay in business bringing you new and updated software. LED Software frequently updates it products. There are various kinds of updates, including Major updates, Minor updates, and bug-fix updates. Minor and bug-fix updates for our shareware products are free -- subject only to our reasonable shipping and and handling charges for disks. As we are not in the disk selling business, you may find that shareware vendors specializing is disk sales can easily sell disks cheaper than we can. On the other hand, we *always* have the most recent versions of our software. Our shipping and handling charges for update disks are as follows: 6.95 US and Canada for the first product, 4.00 US and Canada for each additional disk. 2.50 Surcharge for shipping outside of US and Canada. If you obtain a minor or bug-fix update from Compuserve or other online service, a BBS, a shareware disk vendor or from another source, there is no charge from us (of course you will have to pay the on-line service fees, disk vendors fees, or at least pay your phone bill for downloading from a BBS). In addition, you may use a single disk to update any number of copies of a product. The policy and pricing for Major shareware updates vary. Depending on the nature of the upgrade, length of time since the previous major upgrade, desirability of new features added, the extent of revisions to the printed manuals (if any), work involved and possible price changes for new users, we may or may not charge fees. Since it is difficult to determine what the cost of future major updates will be, and since we do not wish to commit ourselves to the uncertainty of the future, we have provided information on the cost of major past updates here so that you can see our track record, and possibly feel reassured about the future. The legalese section... REMINDER Copyright ⌐ 1991-95 by LED Software. SOFTWARE LICENSE LED Software is not and has never been public domain software, nor is it free software. Non-licensed users are granted a limited license to use our software on a 20-day trial basis for the purpose of determining whether the software is suitable for their needs. Any use of our software, except for the initial 20-day trial, requires registration. The use of unlicensed copies of our software, outside of the initial 20-day trial, by any person, business, corporation, government agency or any other entity is strictly prohibited. A single user license permits a user to use one copy of the licensed software product only on a single computer. Licensed users may use the program on different computers, but may not use the program on more than one computer at the same time. No one may modify or patch any of our executable files in any way, including but not limited to decompiling, disassembling, or otherwise reverse engineering our software programs. A limited license is granted to copy and distribute our shareware software only for the trial use of others, subject to the above limitations, and also the following: 1) The software must be copied in unmodified form, complete with the file containing this license information. 2) The full machine-readable documentation must be included with each copy. 3) Our software may not be distributed in conjunction with any other product with out a specific license to do so from LED Software. 4) Vending of our software products in retail stores (by "shareware rack vendors") is specifically prohibited without prior written authorization. Written authorization will generally require payment of a small royalty on each disk sold. 5) No fee, charge, or other compensation may be requested or accepted, except as authorized below: A) Non-profit user groups may distribute copies of the our products to their members, subject to the above conditions, without specific permission. Non-profit groups may collect a disk duplication fee not to exceed five dollars. B) Operators of electronic bulletin board systems (sysops) may make our products available for downloading only as long as the above conditions are met. An overall or time-dependent charge for the use of the bulletin board system is permitted as long as there is not a specific charge for the download of our software. C) Mail-order vendors of shareware software approved by the ASP may distribute our products, subject to the above conditions, without specific permission. Non- approved vendors may distribute our products only after obtaining written permission from LED SoftWare. Such permission is usually granted. Please write for details (enclose your catalog). Vendors may charge a disk duplication and handling fee, which, when pro-rated to each individual product, may not exceed eight dollars. LIMITED WARRANTY LED Software guarantees your satisfaction with this product for a period of 30 days from the date of original purchase. If you are unsatisfied with the product within that time period, return the package in saleable condition to the place of purchase for a full refund minus shipping and handling if necessary. LED Software warrants that all disks provided are free from defects in material and workmanship, assuming normal use, for a period of 90 days from the date of purchase. LED Software warrants that the program will perform in substantial compliance with the documentation supplied with the software product. If a significant defect in the product is found, the purchaser may return the product for a refund. In no event will such a refund exceed the purchase price of the product. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED ABOVE, LED Software DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, THE PURCHASER ASSUMES THE RISK OF PAYING THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION AND ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL LED SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT EVEN IF LED SOFTWARE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Use of this product for any period of time constitutes your acceptance of this agreement and subjects you to its contents. U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013. Contractor/manufacturer is LED Software 7515 - 86th Ave SE/ Mercer Island, WA 98040 TRADEMARKS Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Reminder is a trademark of LED Software. ORDERING INFORMATION Licensing our products brings you wonderful benefits. Some of these are: - Gets rid of that pesky reminder window that comes up when you start up the software. - Insures that you have the latest version of the product. - Encourages the authors of these programs to continue bringing you updated/better versions and new products. - Gets you on our mailing list so you are occassionally notified of spectacular updates and our other Windows products. - And, of course, our 30-day money back guarantee. LED Software ORDER FORM Name: ____________________________________________________ Company:____________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ City: ________________________ St:______ Zip:___________ Phone: (______)_________________ Country:________________ ____ Reminder (s) @ $39.95 : _______.____ There is no shipping and handling unless you want us to send you a disk. If you do, fill in the ____ Disk, handling and shipping (US & Canada) @ $6.95 : _______.____ ____ Disk, handling and International Shipping @ $9.50 : _______.____ WA residents please add tax @ 8.2%: _______.____ Total: _______.____ Please enclose a check payable to LED Software; International customers please see note below. or you may use Visa or MasterCharge. For credit cards, please enter the information below: Card #:__ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ Expiration date: ____/____ Signature: _________________________________________ Where did you hear about or get a copy of our products? ____________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************** * International customers. Although we do prefer payment by Credit Card * * we can accept non-US-bank checks under certain conditions.... * * The check MUST be in your currency -- NOT IN US$ -- Just look in your * * newspaper for the current exchange rates, make out your check and send * * it to us. We will take care of the rest. No Eurocheques please. * ************************************************************************** Send to: LED Software, Inc. 7515 - 86th Ave SE Mercer Island, WA 98040 USA or call: (800) 905-4155 (USA Orders Only ) (206) 232-4155 (Customer Service/International Orders) CompuServe 75604,2533 (Technical Support) (Please allow 1 to 2 weeks for delivery)