Rosenthal Engineering P.O.Box 1650, San Luis Obispo CA USA 93406 U.S. Patent No. 5,359,659, Copyright 1994, 1995 all rights reserved. WWW http://slonet.org/~doren/ e-mail doren@slonet.org Rosenthal History (tm) Rosenthal History (tm) maintains a running timeline of changes, additions and deletions made to the AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI files. An easy to understand, plain text file (RE_HIST.DAT) history report can be referred to when uninstalling software or to resolve conflicts. Add Rosenthal History and begin recording the timeline as soon as possible. The bonus utility "Rosenthal History (tm)" is included ABSOLUTELY FREE with paid registration or upgrade of Rosenthal UnInstall (tm) or Rosenthal System Monitor (tm). See the ORDER.FRM or SM_ORDER.FRM file to register this top rated award, winning combo. - - - - - - "Rosenthal UnInstall is an excellent program for keeping your system neat, clean, and free of unwanted program files. It can remove even the most complex program installations *and* restore your system files! It's a program I wouldn't be without. Rosenthal History, provided free to registered users of Rosenthal Uninstall, keeps an ongoing history of all changes to your system! This is a must-have combo for anyone who uses software! Excellent!" Michael E. Callahan aka Dr. File Finder (tm) - - - - - - Rosenthal UnInstall has been awarded "Five Stars" by PC-Plus magazine. Reserved as their highest honor for any software. "If you are the sort of person who likes to experiment with new programs, you can't afford to be without Rosenthal UnInstall. It will save you untold aggravation, and help to keep your system healthy." Roman Iwaschkin "On Test" column in PC Plus magazine. - - - - - - "Rosenthal UnInstall. Awarded the much coveted 'Works for Me' award." Dr. Ed Hoffman Windows-On-Line Review (tm). - - - - - - "I have tried several Windows uninstallers before running across Rosenthal UnInstall and found them slow and somewhat complicated in the basic learning curve. With this little DOS program, I had it installed and running in minutes with its short and to the point documentation. No frills, no pretty graphics or pictures of your disk, just pure uninstalling power in this package! Rosenthal Uninstall not only located all of the files but efficiently removed them in seconds!" Paul Mayer Spotlights magazine - - - - - - "Every so often, I discover a company that hits on just the right product and delivers it. This time, it's a small company called Rosenthal Engineering.... "Rosenthal UnInstall makes removing files, program groups and icons, and restoring your configuration files a quick, easy, and pain-free procedure. " John V. Hedtke Mobile Office Magazine - - - - - - Editors' Choice Award "Computer Telephony Magazine". "All Windows programs like Clean Sweep, Uninstaller II, WInformat, WinDelete, Uninstall-It, etc. make educated guesses as to what you should remove... There is a far better way: Use Rosenthal UnInstall." Harry Newton Computer Telephony Magazine - - - - - - "I like Rosenthal UnInstall -- The only one that can work from MS-DOS. If an installation should botch up so badly that Windows won't load, Rosenthal UnInstall can fix it.... Rosenthal UnInstall is a real bargin." William M. Frazier Government Comuputer News - - - - - - Recommended by Brian Livingston in his "Infoworld", Window Manager and "Compuserve Magazine" columns. Rosenthal UnInstall has also been written about in "Windows", "Byte", "Computer Shopper", "PC-Week" magazines. Its innovative design and technically excellent performance has also earned a place on "Gold Medallions" CD-ROM, "Neon" and "Computes" companion disk as well as many top rated collections. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- How to use Rosenthal History First copy the files from your distribution diskette, CD-ROM or archive to the root directory of your hard disk. For example: COPY A:*.* C:\ Rosenthal History shares information with Rosenthal UnInstall (tm) and Rosenthal System Monitor (tm). All versions of DOS 3.1 -7 and MS-Windows including Win95 are supported. Operation is totally automatic and no input is required of the user. When used with Rosenthal UnInstall or the registered version of Rosenthal System Monitor this RE_HIST.EXE is executed automatically and its operation is almost completely transparent to the user. Whenever Rosenthal UnInstall updates or purges files, it will also execute Rosenthal History to maintain a running timeline history of additions changes and deletions of your system files. When used with Rosenthal System Monitor, Rosenthal History will review your system files each time you start the system. Rosenthal History is extremely fast and will only add updates to your timeline (RE_HIST.DAT) file as required no matter how often it is run. System administrators, network managers and technical support people find using Rosenthal History in combination with Rosenthal System Monitor on clients systems before they encounter difficulties is extremely helpful to resolve problems in the future. Users aren't always aware of changes made to their system files until it becomes a problem. The Rosenthal History and System Monitor timeline files RE_HIST.DAT and SYSMON.DAT can be a real life saver and turn disaster into a simple and obvious correction. Installing Rosenthal History and System Monitor on a clients system before there are problems can make a consultant look like a real hero when a user needs him most. As soon as Rosenthal UnInstall is executed it records its timeline as plain text file RE_HIST.DAT. The indented outline format makes the information in your system files much simpiler to understand. Comments begin with ";" and any changes are shown with a complete description of what was done, the date and time and the file that was changed. The indented outline format makes it easy to see exactly what has happened and when. When a line of your system file gets modified, Rosenthal History will show very clearly when and where, as well as what the line used to be and what is was changed to. Clearly and well commented. As soon as you install Rosenthal History on your system, you take the mystery out of your DOS and Windows system files. You can then use your plain text editor to changes you would never have attempted before and keep your system free of junk and running smooth. Software License agreement Rosenthal History is provided ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE to registered users of Rosenthal UnInstall or Rosenthal System Monitor. It is only available with a paid registration or upgrade. Return the file ORDER.FRM or SM_ORDER.FRM to register or upgrade. You may not make any changes or modifications to the software, and you may not decompile, disassemble or in anyway reverse engineer the software. This software is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. Responsibility rests entirely with the user to determine its fitness for a particular purpose. ROSENTHAL ENGINEERING SHALL NOT IN ANY CASE BE LIABLE FOR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. This constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the parties and supersedes any prior agreement or understanding whether oral or written and may only be modified in writing.