WinBar (VERSION 1.1) Copyright (c) 1995 Ziff Davis Publishing Company --------------------------------------------------------------------- First Published in PC Magazine September 12, 1995 (Utilities) --------------------------------------------------------------------- WinBar by Douglas Boling Purpose: WinBar is a highly configurable rendition of the Windows 95 Taskbar that runs under Windows 3.1. It can launch programs from either its menu structure or directly from an icon on the bar. WinBar can also be used as a replacement for the Windows 3.1 Program Manager. Setup: To install WinBar, copy the files WINBAR.EXE and WBDLL.DLL to a directory on your hard disk, and run WINBAR.EXE. Start WinBar using the File | Run menu item in the Program Manager. When WinBar is first run, it will copy information from Program Manager's group files to initialize its menus. To configure WinBar, select the Programs | Setup | Configure WinBar menu item. Use the series of nested dialog boxes to edit the current menus or add new menus or individual items. The Load Groups button in the Configuration dialog box can be used to copy group information from Program Manager to a WinBar menu. Remarks: To use WinBar as the Windows shell, change the SHELL= line in the [boot] section of SYSTEM.INI to the fully specified WinBar filename. The file WBDLL.DLL must be in the Windows directory is WinBar is used as the Windows shell. The WinBar Startup group is only relevant if WinBar is used as the Windows shell. Changes made to WinBar's Startup group are not reflected to the Program Manager's Startup group. WinBar stores its configuration information in the file WINBAR.DAT located in the same directory as WINBAR.EXE. Support for WinBar: Help for the free utilities offered by PC Magazine can be obtained electronically in the Utilities section of ZiffNet's TIPS forum (GO ZNT:TIPS). The authors of current utilities generally visit this forum every day. You may find an answer to your question simply by reading the messages previously posted in the forum. If the author is not available and you have a question that the sysops in the forum can't answer, the editor of the Utilities column, who also checks this forum each day, will contact the author for you. Douglas Boling is a Contributing Editor to PC Magazine. ----------------------------------------------------------------------