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StartupScreen                                                        by
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Version 3.10.                                               Mike Mezaros
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Released 7/30/91

Full documentation for StartupScreen is provided in the included Windows 
help file.  This file just contains a few odds and ends, etc.  I would
have named it READ.ME or README.TXT, but how many of those can you have?


INVENTORY
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This archive should've included:

STARTUP.EXE - The actual program.
STARTUP.HLP - The Windows help file.
STARTUP.TXT - This file.


VISUAL BASIC
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This program is written in Microsoft Visual Basic.  Therefore, it can
only be used in Windows' Standard or Enhanced modes, and requires the
royalty-free Visual Basic runtime DLL.  This DLL is widely available,
and free... It is available on CompuServe in the Microsoft Languages 
Forum (GO MSLANG) in library #6, and on GEnie in the IBM PC RoundTable 
(IBMPC), as VBRUN.ZIP.


SETTING A DEFAULT DIRECTORY
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Windows 3.0 doesn't provide an easy way to set a default directory for
your programs... For example, let's say that you keep all of your 
graphics files in C:\GRAPHICS, and all of your Windows applications in
C:\WINAPPS.  There's no simple way to have a Windows program default to
your C:\GRAPHICS directory, without actually moving the program.

StartupScreen allows you to set its default directory.  In an early
beta release of StartupScreen 3.10, this type of information could be
set from within the program and was saved in an .INI initialization
file.  In this, the final release, it is handled through a command
line argument.

So, in the Program Manager (or whatever replacement you use), add the 
name of the directory you want StartupScreen to default to to the command 
line.  (If it looks like I have too many to's, read it again.) 

For example, if it currently reads...

C:\WINAPPS\STARTUP.EXE

and you want it to default to C:\GRAPHICS, change it to...

C:\WINAPPS\STARTUP.EXE C:\GRAPHICS


Z-NET PC INTERNATIONAL ONLINE MAGAZINE
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If you're interested in keeping up on the latest news in the PC world,
be sure to check out Z-Net PC.  Z-Net PC is an online magazine - in
other words, you download it, and read it in your favorite word processor
or text editor, etc.  It is released bi-weekly, and at absolutely no
cost to you (although normal connect charges apply if you download it
from an online service).

The issues are available on CompuServe in the IBM Applications Forum
(GO IBMAPP), and GEnie in the IBM PC RoundTable (IBMPC).

Just search on "ZNET" to find the latest issue.


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