Welcome to FTbar! ('Find Task' bar) version 4.0
Copyright (C) 1997 OwnerWorld Software
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. System Requirements
3. Installation and deinstallation
4. Licensing
5. Contacting OwnerWorld Software


1. Introduction

FTbar! ('Find Task' bar) is a utility that helps you in performing the two most 
frequent actions when working in Windows environment: 

	- to switch quickly to the window of interest (to find a task);
	- to launch quickly the application you need (to find a button 
		to push on for the application to begin running).

All tools/utilities currently presented at the market address the problem "how to 
START an application in the fastest way?", while none of them helps in "how to 
SWITCH to the window of interest in the fastest way?" -- all of them rely on 
the Task Bar. But what do you do more frequently when working in the windows 
environment? 

FTbar! makes the process of switching between windows as fast as possible. And 
it also has some additional and very useful features for quick application
launching, which neither the Task Bar nor the other utilities do not provide.

FTbar! has a row of icon buttons: each icon button represents a window you can 
switch to by clicking the button. The icon image is the same as Windows displays 
in the window's caption bar.

The buttons at the left side of the row provide for application launching menus. 
The leftmost button displays the Start Menu (with addition of My Computer and 
your desktop items); the second button displays the Programs menu. Moreover, 
you may create as many additional menus with your favorite shortcuts as you 
want, their buttons are also always visible and easy to access. 

While the native Windows' Task Bar, Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar are the 
tools to achieve just these goals (and there are some other similar tools on 
the market), FTbar! provides features that make it a "must-have" utility for 
those who needs 100% productivity of their work:

	o while keeping window buttons always visible, FTbar! does not waste 
	  any pixel of your screen space;
	o small icon buttons placed together make it much simpler to choose the 
	  window you need to switch to;
	o you may perform fast switching with Alt+~ (works like the native 
	  Windows' Alt+Tab switching, but displays only non-iconized windows) 
	  or you may switch to the window of interest with keyboard shortcuts;
	o FTbar! provides quick access to all Start Menu items, also including 
	  My Computer and your desktop items;
	o special folders of the My Computer menu (Control Panel, Printers, 
	  Dial-Up Networking) are expandable submenu, thus making the access 
	  to their items quick and easy;
	o just one click is needed to access the Programs menu;
	o group your favorite shortcuts and create as many your own Start Menus 
	  as you want;
	o FTbar! provides quick and simple menu customizing -- in addition to 
	  drag-and-drop feature (drag-and-drop an object -- shortcut or 
	  file -- onto the menu button to create a menu item), FTbar! pops up 
	  a context menu for the item if you select the item from the mmenu 
	  with the right mouse button (even if the item is a sub-menu -- this 
	  allows to use cut-copy-paste operations to move easily the shortcuts 
	  between your menus or submenus).

All features of FTbar! are well thought-out and substantiated.

FTbar! is a shareware product, registration fee for fully-functional 
version is US $5.


2. System Requirements

	- 80386 or higher required;
	- mouse;
	- 500kb free disk space;
	- Microsoft Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 or higher (restricted functionality
	  is provided on Windows NT 3.51).


3. Installation and deinstallation

To install FTbar!, change your current directory to the one contained the file Setup.exe, then run Setup.exe and follow the on-screen instructions.

To deinstall FTbar! under Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, activate the Add/Remove Programs item from the Control Panel, then double click on FTbar! item in the list.

To deinstall FTbar! under Windows NT 3.5*, change your current directory to the one contained the file Uninstall.exe and run it.


4. Licensing

FTbar! is Shareware, which means that you may evaluate it for a
period of thirty (30) days from the date of its original installation and use.
After the evaluation period has elapsed you must register it.
The registration fee for FTbar! is US $5 (see the file License.txt for
complete license agreement, see the file Register.txt on how to register 
FTbar!).


5. Contacting OwnerWorld Software

E-mail:	OwnerWorld@kagi.com

WWW:	http://www.kagi.com/OwnerWorld

Mail:	Kagi
	1442-A Walnut Street #392-3Q8
	Berkeley, California, 94709-1405
	USA
