====================================== WELCOME TO STARFISH INTERNET UTILITIES README FILE ====================================== This document contains information about Starfish Internet Utilities. Please read through this document carefully. We recommend that you also print a copy of this document and save it with your User's Guide for future reference. ======== CONTENTS ======== 1. Installation 2. Starting Starfish Internet Utilities 3. Features summary 4. Limitations 5. Running Starfish Internet Utilities under Windows NT 6. Corrections to the User's Guide 7. Removing Starfish Internet Utilities =============== 1. INSTALLATION =============== Install Starfish Internet Utilities in a separate directory; do not attempt to install it over another program. ======================================= 2. STARTING STARFISH INTERNET UTILITIES ======================================= Click Starfish Internet Utilities in the Windows 95 Start Menu. The first time you run Starfish Internet Utilities, your system is examined and the following features are automatically set up: -- The AppOrganizer scans your hard disk for common applications and creates QuickMarks groups and QuickMarks buttons for them, such as a Utilities group. -- Starfish Internet Utilities creates QuickMarks buttons representing Internet sites, grouped into convenient categories such as Search. =================== 3. FEATURES SUMMARY =================== NOTE: For more details on Starfish Internet Utilities' features, use the online help system. You can view the Help Table of Contents by clicking the question mark button on the Starfish Internet Utilities Control Center and clicking Contents. The key features of Starfish Internet Utilities include: -- QuickMarks categorizes numerous Internet sites into groups such as Search and News. To connect to a site in one of these groups, select that QuickMarks tab and click that site's icon. Your browser is automatically launched, if it is not already running, and it connects directly to that site. Once you are connected, click any QuickMarks Web site icon to jump immediately to that site. -- InternetMeter keeps track of your online communications that use 32-bit TAPI applications, such as Netscape Navigator 2.0 or higher and Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 or higher. You can view the details of your online calls and monitor your service provider connections by using the InternetMeter Call Log. -- QuickZip lets you quickly and easily extract files and create compressed files (.zip files)and self-extracting archives. In addition, you can use QuickZip even when Starfish Internet Utilities is not running. -- InternetClock automatically synchronizes your system time by connecting to an Internet time server. In addition, you can schedule alarms, reminders, and tasks, and display up to four clocks, with different time zones, on the Control Center. ======================== 4. LIMITATIONS ======================== Limitations include: - When you view the Modem Setup dialog for the InternetMeter, you get the modem properties for the first modem installed. You cannot change to other modems. As a workaround, use the Windows 95 Control Panel. - If you uninstall your default browser, your QuickMark Internet buttons may not launch correctly. As a workaround, reinstall the browser that you want to be your default. Note: Online and Internet service providers vary in their policies concerning their billing practices, such as in their methods for rounding up the hours spent or billing in minimum time increments. They also may change their policies. InternetMeter does not account for all such variables. Although InternetMeter will reflect the actual time spent online, that time may not correspond to your final bill from your service provider. ======================================================== 5. RUNNING STARFISH INTERNET UTILITIES UNDER WINDOWS NT ======================================================== Note: Starfish Internet Utilities has been tested with Windows NT 4.0, and the following information applies only to NT 4.0. It has not been tested with older versions of NT. When Internet Utilities is running on a Windows NT 4.0, the following limitations apply: - Layouts: You must edit the information for each application in the Manage Layouts dialog box. Select the layout in the upper window, click each application in the lower window, and click the Edit button. Add the program name and path in the Command Line box, and the working directory name in the Working Directory box. - Printer: Paper orientation cannot always be displayed by Internet Utilities, due to Windows NT security features. - Virtual Screens: Launching a program by dragging it to a Virtual Screen opens the program in the current Virtual Screen. You can then drag it to another Virtual Screen if desired. =================================== 6. CORRECTIONS TO THE USER'S GUIDE =================================== NOTE: These corrections apply only to the printed manual. If you have a printed manual, be sure to substitute the set of replacement pages for pages 41 through 48. There are two corrections to those replacement pages: (1) References to .cdb files should be .cmk files. (2) On pages 46-47: The dialog boxes that appear, browser "chain link" icons, and home page status icons may vary and/or not function as described, depending upon your browser's version. In addition, in the printed manual, please note the following: Page 49: In this version, the Settings Customization page does not have an Advanced button. It is replaced by the Auto-Save section. Use the drop-down list in this section to change the frequency at which your QuickMarks setup is automatically saved. Page 66: The Call Log page has additional features not shown in the manual. For details, click the Help button (?) on the Internet Utilities Control Center, select Contents from the menu, click the Index tab, and search for Call Log page. For all references to dragging and dropping QuickMarks buttons to Virtual Screens: this feature applies only to QuickMarks buttons that represent applications and documents. For all references to NetClock and NetMeter: the correct terms are, respectively, InternetClock and InternetMeter. NOTE: The electronic version of the manual has been corrected, and the above list does not pertain to that version. For details on downloading the electronic version of the manual, visit the Starfish Software Web site at: http://www.starfishsoftware.com ============================================ 7. REMOVING STARFISH INTERNET UTILITIES ============================================ To remove Starfish Internet Utilities: 1. Close Starfish Internet Utilities and the InternetMeter background monitoring component. (Close the component by right-clicking the InternetMeter system tray icon and clicking Close InternetMeter on the shortcut menu.) 2. Open the Windows 95 Control Panel. 3. Select Add/Remove Programs. Then select Starfish Internet Utilities from the list. 4. Click the Add/Remove button. 5. Restart Windows, and manually delete the Starfish Internet Utilities directory.