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- ôAnyFolderö is a shell extension, which allows you to assign any icon
- to any file folder in the Windows95/NT shell. You can customize icon
- for open and close state of the each folder of your choice.
-
- Take more fun from your Windows shell and increase your productivity
- with ôAnyFolderö shell extension. Assign meaningful icons to important
- folders. Break rows of boring uniform folders with tailored icons. Let
- your eyes relax from monotony, and so increase your productivity. Take
- fun seeing how your folders open and close right on your desktop or
- inside another folder in various shapes.
- ôAnyFolderö installation set includes more than 20 couples of icons,
- suitable for various file folders.
-
- ôAnyFolderö is shareware. It means you can use it for free during trial
- period of 20 days. If you like it and want to use it legally after trial
- period ends you have to register it.
-
- How to install ôAnyFolderö.
- ==========================
-
- To install ôAnyFolderö right-click on the file Folders.inf, included in
- the installation set and choose ôInstallö from the context menu.
- Samples of icons are contained in the AFIcons.dll, that placed inside
- your Windows\System directory.
- To install ôAnyFolderö on Windows NT you must have administration rights.
- Make sure your computer clock is set to correct date before installing
- ôAnyFolderö shell extension.
-
- How to use ôAnyFolderö.
- ======================
-
- To assign tailored icon to the folder, right-click on the folder, choose
- ôPropertiesö from the context menu and go to the ôIconö property page.
-
- How to get free icons for file folders.
- =======================================
-
- To get more icons, appropriate for file folders, visit web page at
- http://oop.rosweb.ru/users/a/artem/index.html
-
- How to register ôAnyFolderö.
- ===========================
-
- If you wish to send order and obtain your registration information for
- ôAnyFolderö you may run ôRegisterö application, included in the
- installation set.
- Make sure to follow instructions in the dialog and it does the entire
- job for you. Registration information will be e-mailed to you
- within 1 to 4 days.
- To enter your registration information you have to press ôRegisterô
- button on ôIconö property page of any folder.
-
- How to uninstall ôAnyFolderö.
- ============================
-
- To uninstall ôAnyFolderö shell extension you may run ôAdd/Remove Programsö
- from the Control Panel and double-click on the ôAnyFolderö
- shell extension.
-
- Notes for this version of ôAnyFolderö.
- =================================================
-
- This version is compatible with Windows95/NT 4.0 and Microsoft
- Internet Explorer 4.0 Preview 2.
-
- Tips and tricks.
- ================
-
- 1. To manage, extract, edit and create icons you may use some tools, which
- can be found at www.download.com under category Multimedia & Design \Icons.
- 2. To assign different icons to each hard drive in your system you may
- create file Autorun.inf in the root directory, containing lines:
- [autorun]
- ICON=iconfilename,index
- where iconfilename is full path to file, containing icon and index is
- number of image inside this file, usually 0.
- 3. Most of shell icons are located inside Windows\System\Shell32.dll file.
-
- Known problems for this version of ôAnyFolderö.
- =============================================
-
- 1. You can see small icon of the folder unchanged in the left pane
- of the Windows Explorer the first time you have applied customization
- to it. The icon will be correct next time you restart your computer.
- 2. You can see plus tab in the left pane of the Windows Explorer for
- folder that does not actually contain subfolders. This is due the way
- Windows shell manages extensions and will be fixed in the next version.
- 3. You can see folder icon ôflashesö when the folder closes under
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, because its shell is not fully
- compatible with Windows95/NT.
- 4. ôAnyFolderö marks customized folders as read only. Windows 95/NT
- requires it to recognize customization.
-
- Technical support.
- ==================
-
- Registered users can address all questions directly to the author via
- e-mail artem@kagi.com. For unregistered users the author will answer
- all the questions about the trial period problems.
-
- Please note: Kagi does not provide technical support for you, only the
- author does.
-
-
- Artem Lin
- artem@kagi.com
- http://oop.rosweb.ru/users/a/artem/index.html
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