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TrayLaunch (VERSION 1.00) by John Deurbrouck 
Copyright (c) 1997 Ziff Davis Publishing Company 
First Published February 18, 1997 
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About  TrayLaunch...
Purpose:  TrayLaunch lets you access all the icons on your desktop from the taskbar,
including system utilities such as My Computer and Recycle Bin that are placed there 
by Windows. These system utilities are normally accessible only from their desktop 
icons.

Usage:  To install TrayLaunch, copy the program file TRAYLNCH.EXE to your hard 
disk, and create an icon for it in your shell. To start TrayLaunch, double-click its icon, 
or place it in your StartUp group so it runs each time you start Windows 95. To remove 
TrayLaunch from your system, simply delete the program file and remove any shortcuts 
to it that you created. TrayLaunch writes to no other files, and makes no entries in your 
system registry.

What you first launch TrayLaunch, the only thing you will see is a new icon in your 
system tray. Thats the area at the right or bottom corner of your screen, at the end of 
the task bar, where the Windows clock resides. 

To access the icons on your desktop, right click on the little green TrayLaunch icon. 
This will open a popup menu with three sections. The topmost section consists of the 
items that Windows creates on your desktop such as My Computer and the Recycle 
Bin-the items that you cant usually access from the task bar. They are separated from 
your own files and shortcuts to make them easier to find, and they are sorted alpha-
betically. The second section contains any items you placed on the desktop yourself, 
and is also sorted alphabetically. The third section of the menu contains two items: 
About TrayLaunch and Exit. Select Exit to terminate TrayLaunch and remove it from 
your system tray. You can, of course, restart it at anytime.

If you double-click the My Computer icon on the desktop, a single-paned Explorer 
window appears. Right-clicking the icon pops up a context menu. Similarly, double-
clicking the My Computer item on the TrayLaunch menu will carry out the My 
Computer default action, opening a single-paned Explorer window. Double clicking 
on any TrayLaunch menu item will perform the default action (the one in bold face on 
its context menu). You can also choose any of the other context menu items (such as 
Explore and Find for My Computer), or bring up the Properties sheet.

Most TrayLaunch menu options operate just like the corresponding desktop icons, 
but there are a few differences. You may notice that a couple of items that appear in 
the context menu of the My Computer desktop icon are missing from the TrayLaunch 
version. Items such as Create Shortcut and Rename, which relate specifically to the 
icon version of the item, are not included on the TrayLaunch menu.

Once the TrayLaunch menu is displayed, you can explore it as long as you like. 
These are standard Windows menus, so clicking anywhere outside the menus 
confines will dismiss them.

Support for TrayLaunch:
Support for the free utilities offered by PC Magazine can be obtained 
electronically  in the discussion area of PC Magazines Web site and 
in the Utilities section of ZD Net's TIPS Forum on CompuServe. 
For PC Magazine's Web site go to the URL http://www.pcmag.com/discuss/ 
and select the Utilities area. You can also access the Utilities discussion area 
from the utilitys download page.  The authors of current utilities generally 
monitor the discussion area every day.  You may find an answer to your 
question simply by reading the messages previously posted. If the author is 
not available and you have a question that the sysops can't answer, the editor
of the Utilities column, who also checks the area each day, will contact the 
author for you.

For ZD Net's TIPS Forum (GO ZNT:TIPS). The authors of current utilities 
generally visit this forum daily. You may find an answer to your question 
by reading the messages already posted in the forum. If the author is not 
available and the forum sysops can't answer your question, the Utilities 
column editor, who checks this forum each day, will contact the author 
for you.

John Deurbrouck is a longtime Windows and DOS programmer. 
He works for a database company in the Seattle area. 
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