UPDATED: 7/19/95. See "What's New" below for info about this update.
This folder contains a series of "PowerToys"-- UI enhancements for advanced Win95 users-- that can be easily installed on any recent build of Windows 95.
These enhancements were developed by members of the Microsoft Win95 team, and are now being made available to Win95 users at no cost. Note.. these are not part of any shipping retail product at this point in time, and therefore are not supported through any official support channels. Use "at your own risk".
The contents of this folder will be updated over time as we make enhancements to the utilities you see here now, and as we add new utilities for people to try out. Stop back every now and then and see what's changed.
Here's what's available now:
*** SEND TO ANY FOLDER
This utility adds an "Any Folder" entry to your win95 "Send To" menu. You can then right-click on any file or directory, choose "Send To> Any Folder" and type an MS-DOS path to move or copy the file into. High-end users who miss the File Manager's Move and Copy dialogs will love Send To Any Folder.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: None.
*** FAST FOLDER CONTENTS
With this handy-dandy context-menu extension, when you right-click on any folder or other container, you'll get a cascade menu that shows you all the contents of that folder, one-level deep. It works on shortcuts-to-folders, too.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: None.
*** QUICK CD
Quick CD is a taskbar notification icon that makes controlling audio CDs a breeze. When an audio CD is in your drive, Quick CD gives you convenient single-click play/pause control, a tooltip that tells you which track and time you're on, and a right-click menu that provides commands for starting, stopping, ejecting and moving around the tracks on your CD.
NEW: "No disc" notification, revised menu.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: None.
*** CABFILE VIEWER
You know those *.CAB files that you'll find on the Win95 CD and floppies? (These are files containing one or more compressed files.) Well, with the CABFILE Viewer shell extension, you can browse right into a CAB file and see all of its contents, and perform normal shell operations on the files inside.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: None.
*** ROUND CLOCK
This version of CLOCK.EXE takes advantage of win95's region windows, so your analog clock will be round, just like a real clock would. (Note.. you just need to copy this EXE to use the clock. No setup file is provided.)
This is a simple custom command for all folders and containers that lets you right-click and choose "Explore from Here" to get an Explorer window that has the target folder as its root.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: Disable on Start Button
*** SHORTCUT TARGET MENU (New!)
Finally, you can get the properties for a shortcut's target just by right-clicking the shortcut. This extension will add to any shortcut's context menu the complete context menu of its target.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: None.
*** XMOUSE (New!)
For all of the CS majors in the audience-- make the focus follow the mouse without clicking, a la X Windows. TIP: To turn it off, use the control panel.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: None.
*** QUICKRES (New!)
Here's one we wish was built right in: change DPI and bit depth without rebooting. QuickRes lives in the notification area-- just click on it to select your new display settings.
PENDING CHANGES/FIXES: None.
HOW TO INSTALL
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Installation of any of these is easy. First, copy down the contents of this directory. Then, right-click on the Setup Information file (INF file.. these look like a text file with a little gear on them) for the extension you'd like to install, and choose the INSTALL command. When you're done installing the extensions you want, you can delete the folder you copied down. It's that easy. (NOTE: Install is not LFN-aware; it will not work if the files are copied down to a local directory with an LFN.)
