MYGROUPS.EXE (VERSION 1.0)         Copyright (c) 1994, Charles C. Edwards
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            First Published in PC Magazine September 27, 1994 (Utilities)
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MYGROUPS by Charles C. Edwards

PURPOSE:

         MyGroups lets you change your Program Manager group icons to
customized icons.

SETUP:
         To install MyGroups, copy MYGROUPS.EXE to your hard disk and
then add it to your Startup group. Once MyGroups is running, whenever
you select the system menu for a Program Manager group, you will see
two additional menu items: Change Icon and Unload MyGroups.

When you select Change Icons, you will be presented with a dialog box
that is very similar in appearance to the dialog box used to select
file icons. You can browse the icons you have on-disk in the usual way,
or you can click on Programs to view the icons contained within that
group.

To unload MyGroups and restore the default Program Manager group icons,
select Unload MyGroups.

REMARKS:
         MyGroups stores the location of the icon for each group in an
.INI file called MYGROUPS.INI. This file can be found in your Windows
directory. If you delete or rename a group, MyGroups detects this and
makes the appropriate changes to the .INI file. Such changes are not
detected, however, if they are made while MyGroups is not loaded.
MyGroups will display a message the next time you start it if it
encounters a problem.

If you frequently make changes to your groups while MyGroups is not
running, you may want to disable the start-up warnings. If you don't
want to be notified when the file containing a group icon cannot be
found, place the statement WARNICON=0 in the [Warnings] section of
MYGROUPS.INI. If you don't want to be warned about groups that were
deleted or renamed while MyGroups was not running, put the
line WARNGROUP=0 in the same section.
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Charles C. Edwards, author of the book Advanced Techniques in Turbo
Pascal (Sybex, 1987), is a consultant working in Washington, D.C.
He specialized in desk-top operating-systems support.
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