Startup Manager Readme Notes The latest version can always be found at http://www.delphifreestuff.com/ in the freeware section. If you have questions, comments, and/or suggestions, feel free to post them on the support forum at http://www.delphifreestuff.com/discus/ in the Freeware group. See the included StartupManager.hlp file for information on using the program. Future Enhancements: -------------------- * Configurable location of "Startup (Disabled)" folder. * Ability to save and load entire startup program lists. This would be especially useful for backing up you current configuration, and for developers to use for testing. Also, compare a saved list to the current environment. * Ability to hide disabled items (filter them out of the display list). * Update the help file... Known Issues: ------------- * If using large fonts in your display settings, you may notice a "gap" on the right side of the list the first time you run Startup Manager. After you run it for the first time, you should no longer see this. * C:\WINDOWS\WinInit.ini is a location that Startup Manager does not currently check. I've nosed around on Microsoft's site and on Deja.com, but can't find any kind of documentation on this thing. Best I can tell, it's just for copying/deleting/moving files around at startup, mostly to handle DLL replacement and the like. If this is its only purpose, I will not add support for this item as that's really not what SM is all about. If anyone knows of any formal documenation on WinInit.ini, please let me know at bstowers@pobox.com. * Items in startup folders that are not shortcuts (.lnk files) can not be edited. This would be a real pain for me to do, and I don't think it's worth the trouble at this point. I recommend you move non-shortcut files out of the startup folder and make shortcuts to them. * Editing an item that is marked as new will cause it to lose it's new status. Version History: ---------------- 1.5.2.25: * All Users Startup folder support. This was available for NT users, but is now there for Win9x as well. * Added Run command. * Added indicator to status column to show new items; that is, items that have been added since the last time SM was used. The first time you use this new version, everything will be marked new, even if you have used a previous version. * Added comment field. Comment fields can be changed in the edit dialog. * Added print command. The widths of the printed columns are based on the width of the columns in main display. For example, if the Status column uses 10% of the total width in the main display, the width of the printed Status column will use 10% of the printable area of the page. Also, printing defaults to Arial font, size 10. If you would like a different font, you can use two registry values to control it. Both are located in the HKCU\Software\CreativeGaffers\Startup Manager\Preferences key (you'll probably have to create the 'Preferences' subkey). Both are string values: Printer.Font.Name -- Identifies the font face name Printer.Font.Size -- Identifies the font size At some point, I'll add a preferences dialog, but I didn't think this alone was cause enough for one. Oh, and don't forget you can print in landscape mode if you are having trouble getting everything to display on the hard-copy. * Editing a shortcut command that included comma characters could cause them to be lost. Fixed. 1.1.3.3: * Some people were having a problem with the tool I used to compress the exe. This version is uncompressed. 1.1.2.9: * Status column looked silly with only the image in it. Now has status image and text, too. * 16-color mode problem should be fixed. That means you can run it in safe mode now. * Fixed problem with running on systems using large fonts. There's still a very small problem with it, but very minor. See Known Issues above. * Added more items to the "Future Enhancements" (wish list) section above. I still have more items in my mail to be added to that, so if you've already sent me something that's not on the list above, I just haven't added it yet. 1.1.1.3: * There was a problem with the Check For Update command not finding an update when there was one. I've changed the minor version number (the second one) in order to fix this problem. I generally use the numbers this way: 1st number changes indicates a major change in the program. 2nd indicates new functionality, but nothing major. 3rd indicates bug fixes only. 4th is for my internal use. In this case despite the version going to 1.1.x.x from 1.0.x.x, the changes were bug fixes only not new functionality. I had to change the 2nd version number in order to get old versions to recognize a new version was available. 1.0.12.4: * I inadvertently removed the enabled/disabled images from the list. * Added a Status column to the list. This allows you to sort based on the enabled/disabled status of items. * Sorting on Location column changed a bit. All items in the same location are now sorted as well. 1.0.11.7: * Disabling items in the startup folder other than shortcuts (.LNK files) would incorrectly rename them to .LNK files in the disabled folder. Thereafter, you were stuck with them as .LNK files until you renamed them. * Startup Manager now does its best to remember the item you are working with. For example, if you have an item selected and disable it, it should still be highlighted after the change. 1.0.10.3: * Column sizes were not saved if you double clicked on the header dividers to auto size them. 1.0.9.3: * Initial (non-beta) release.
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