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                        Start Menu Changer'97 Readme file.
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This program is SHAREWARE. It is provided "AS IS". The authors takes no
responsibility for any damage caused by this program. You can copy it as many 
times as you like. Give it to anyone as long as all the files in the 
distribution are included and no changes are made to any files. If you like it
you can register it.
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The files which should be included in the original ZIP file:

   Setup.exe       - The installation.
   StartMC.ex_     - The program.
   Remove.ex_      - The uninstallation.
   Readme.txt      - The program information. (This file).
   ReadmeFr.txt    - French translation of this Readme file.
   Register.exe    - Start Menu Changer'97 registration
   Register.hlp    - Registration help
   Sharewre.txt    - The concept of Shareware.
   History.txt     - Start Menu Changer's history.
   File_id.diz     - Small program description.
   End-User.txt    - End user agreement

   Alexey\ - My favourite theme pack    
   Win98\  - Windows 98 theme pack
   Sun\    - Sun theme pack by H.Renouard    
   Sample\ - Sample theme pack of using SMC theme packs

Q: How to register the software?
A: Go to Start Menu Changer'97 'About' bookmark. Press there 'Register.exe'
   button. Then fill out the form by entering your name, email adress and the
   number of single user license you disere for each program you wish to 
   purchase. 

Q: What is the start button icons limit?
A: The Start button size has to be 10x10, 12x12, 14x14, 16x16, 22x22 or 32x32
   with 16 colors. By default, Windows 95 uses 16x16 icon. You can change this
   by resizing the active title bar (click right mouse button on desktop, 
   select properties/appearence).

Q: What does Start Menu Changer modify and how to remove changes?
A: Start Menu Changer modifies Explorer.exe and User.exe files. 
   Backup files are stored as Explorer.sav in your Windows directory and 
   User.sav in your Windows system directory. It also modifies the registry. 
   To restore your original files press the Restore button. To enable your 
   changes you have to restart Windows 95. 

Q: How to restore original Windows icons on start menu?
A: There are two types or doing that: 
   1) Press right mouse button on the start menu icon, which you want to 
      restore and choose in the popup menu 'restore'.
   2) Press restore button and choose 'restore original icons on start menu'.

Q: I'm having trouble with starting Windows 95.
A: If you have problems with starting Windows 95 or restoring your original
   settings, boot into command line (DOS) and copy the *.sav files to *.exe 
   files. If you still have problems then 
   1) Extract Explorer.exe and User.exe from your Windows 95 installation. 
      ( For example:  EXTRACT /A /L C:\TEMP WIN95_02.CAB EXPLORER.EXE 
      USER.EXE )
   2) If you have IE4 shell integration installed then change in your 
      C:\Windows\System.ini shell=Explorer.exe to shell=Progman.exe
      When windows start up with Program Manager you have to go to File 
      Manager (winfile.exe) and find the IE4.01 setup. And reinstaling 
      IE4 by dblclick setup. The Internet connection have to be functioning 
      because the problem did not affect that configuration neither IE4.
      When IE4 finish the instalation the changes in system.ini comes to 
      normaly again and the setup restart windows 95 automaticaly with all 
      systems working properly.

Q: How can I change the start menu vertical logo?
A: First of all, you have to create a bitmap file (21x130 with 16 colors). Run
   Windows Paint, choose size 21x130, draw what you like and then save the 
   picture as a 16 color bitmap file (you can also change the palette of the 
   logo). Run Start Menu Changer and then press 'Load logo' button to load 
   picture. Anyway, after rebooting, your vertical logo size will be small. 
   To correct this problem you have  to compress your picture file using RLE 
   compression. Windows Paint doesn't support RLE compression, so choose 
   another graphic editor, for example, Paint Shop Pro 
   ( http://www.jasc.com/psp.html ). The best program that compresses BMP 
   I've seen is Borland Resource Workshop. To view whole picture your BMP RLE
   file has to be =< 1678 bytes.

Q: My vertical logo has been cuted and there are some incorrect colors after 
   it.
A: To correct colors run Start Menu Changer, load logo and then decrease 
   logo's height. However, the logo will always be cut because Start Menu 
   Changer rewrites the existing logo in Explorer.exe file with existing size.

Q: How can I create my own Theme Pack?
A: First of all, see Sample Theme Pack. Index.smc is an ini-type file so you 
   can easly modify it in Windows Notepad. If any ICON or BMP file (or sections
   in index.smc) isn't included in your theme then the picture (or options) 
   will not be changed in Windows.

NOTE: Unchecked Run, Find, Settings, Logoff, Suspend and Shutdown will not 
      appear in Explorer at all until you've checked them again in Start Menu 
      Changer'97. This happens because Start Menu Changer'97 also modifies 
      registry.

KNOWN BUGS: -> In Russian version the Run is not removed from the start menu
               (Microsoft's bug). There are also some similar bugs in German 
               Windows 95.
            -> Dosn't support Windows NT  and Windows 98 beta 'Read beyond end 
               of file' message occurs. This message also may occur on some 
               unsupported Windows 95 versions.
               I will not support any beta software, omly final releases.
            -> Doesn't hide Settings from start menu in IE4 shell integration.
            -> 256 color icons are saved only as 16 color icons.

If you have any suggestions or any questions contact me or if you have cool
Theme Packs for Start Menu Changer send them to me or send me a link to your 
page where these Themes pack will be located.

Email -------------------> servent@apollo.lv 
Home page ---------------> http://www.halyava.ru/aaalexey
Start Menu Changer page -> http://www.halyava.ru/aaalexey/StartMenu.html