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InfoSpy v2.20 (03/22/95) ** NEW WITH THIS VERSION: - KEYBOARD MONITORING. - APPLICATION USAGE MONITORING. - MONITOR DIRECT TO DISK FILE. - CONFIGURABLE ICON. InfoSpy is a general purpose Windows environment viewer allowing you view Heap, Tasks, Windows, Classes, Modules, File Handles, DOS and Memory Information. You can trace messages, stack and set up automatic timers to provide real-time tracing on virtually every aspect of Windows. InfoSpy has full task scheduling capability allowing you to schedule the execution of programs, Windows shutdown, Windows Restart, System Warmboot & Coldboot and the termination of any task. The Screen Capture Utility allows you to capture the entire desktop, a specific window or cut a portion of the screen to the clipboard. You can save the captured image as a bitmap too. The DLL search utility will examine any local or network drive for all programs that reference DLLs in order to provide a list of unreferenced DLLs. In addition, all duplicate DLLs are displayed with an option to delete the duplicates. The ICON search will examine any file, directory or drive for files containing ICONS and will list them (and draw them) in a convenient list. You can copy any of the listed ICONS to the ClipBoard! Ver 1.xx was highly praised by shareware magazines and software reviews and was published in several books including "Byte Magazine's Programmer Cookbook for Windows" and WUGNET's "Windows Configuration Secrets" as a powerful,easy tool to inspect your Windows environment. InfoSpy now includes STRESS functions that let you use InfoSpy to really put the pressure on Windows and other applications. You can grab Global Heap, GDI Heap, User Heap, File Handles, Disk Space and Timers. There is also a function that continually does disk I/O to help simulate a busy disk. Real time tracing of stack, windows messages and serial comm ports has been added as well as IntelliLib (tm) technology that lets you customize InfoSpy by specifying with DLLs to load to add\remove functionality. Installation ============ To Install: From Program Manager Run A:SETUP You will be asked to Confirm your SOURCE directory. You will be asked to Confirm or change the InfoSpy Destination. You can customize the initial libraries and the INI path. InfoSpy will require 900k on your hard drive and there are no memory or configuration requirements. Registration ============ 1. Send $14.99 to Dean Software Design P.O. Box 13032 Mill Creek, WA 98082-1032 2. use CompuServe's Online Registration SWREG. (id 1846) 3. Call (206) 316-8645 and leave a voice-mail for further purchase options. Canadian/Mexican orders please add $1.00 for postage. Orders from all other countries please add $2.00 for postage. Please use the Registration form found under the "Registration Information" menu option of InfView. See the "Disclaimer / Registration Agreement" for multiple copy and site license registration. You can also register on CompuServe's SWREG forum: registration id 1846 ** What is your incentive to register? There is now an annoying splash screen that appears when starting the unregistered version as well as the word <unregistered> generously placed througout the program. The code size of the registered version is 50k smaller too! We had to add these features since we were getting lots of support calls from people who had not registered. In other words, you get support when you register! ** Version History =============== Ver 2.20 - Added new APPLICATION USAGE MONITOR. This function lets you track the user's application usage showing start date, time & application name. - Corrected several small errors (sp.) on ToolBar and Menu. - Added new ICON SETUP feature. You can now customize your InfoSpy icon to either: a) display the icon. b) Show System Resource %. c) Show GDI Resource %. d) Show USER Resource %. e) Show a Bar graph of SYSTEM, GDI & USER Resource %. f) Be Hidden from view. Thanks to all the users who explained what they needed! - Added logic to SHOW the hidden InfoSpy icon (see online help). - Updated Keyboard Monitor to handle BKSPC and ENTER. - Moved the SCHEDULER SETUP dialog from the Scheduler list dialog to the Scheduler Menu.\line - Added Automatic COMPACT GLOBAL MEMORY event to the TASK SCHEDULER. This function allows you to have your system automatically Compact Global Memory every x minutes. - Corrected bug that caused GPF 1F:02E2 when doing APPLICATION SUMMARY on some applications. - Added DDEML, OLECLI & OLE2 to the System Module list for application summary. - Added capability to save COMM PORT MONITOR activity to disk or to the screen or both. Lets you log comm activity without changing your screen. - Optimized all MESSAGEBOX API calls to a common ERRORTEXT routine, saved a couple of Kb. - Modified Screen capture to hide the InfoSpy Icon before capturing desktop images. If InfoSpy is a normal window then it is not hidden. - Created Generic Task Selection Dialog which is used to select a task for: Application Summary, Terminate Task, Trace Task Messages and Task Stack Dump. This is a lot simpler than opening a Task List then going to the menu. - Created Generic Module Selection Dialog which is used to select a module for: Unload Module and Module Heap List. Once again.. simplicity! - Added capability to FILE TRACE facility so that it can put the trace output either to the screen or to a disk file. - Updated FILE TRACE facility to give user options to trace either DOS or WINDOWS file activity and also to select the particular file activity(s) to watch for (Delete, Rename, Create..). - Added COMPACT GLOBAL MEMORY function to the ACTION menu. Everyone has been asking for it but after Brian Livingston's InfoWorld article we decided we should finally get it done! - Added new KEYBOARD WATCHER function under the MONITOR menu. This is our first pass at trapping all keyboard activity so it is still rough (a few extra\dropped chars) but essentially gives a formatted view of whatever is typed on any Windows applications. Ver 2.16 - Corrected RTE204 1:0545 error in DLL Search. - Corrected error in Message hook that UnSet the wrong message hook. - Corrected RTE201 error in File Manager IMAGE SAVE. - Print DLL bugs fixed that 1) caused print when you clicked in bottom list box. 2) got into a print loop then crashed. 3) Repeated print of 'List of Files that reference DLLs'. - Corrected bug that caused InfoSpy to crash leaving File Handles held, user would have to exit Windows. - Added INFOBMP.EXE small 35k bitmap viewer which is invoked from screen capture. Ver 2.15 - New Windows Screen Capture functions. 3 functions to copy your desktop image to the clipboard. You can copy either the entire screen, a specific window or just a specific area of the screen (using rubber band cut) to the Windows clipboard. - Enhanced the System Menu to include the Terminal Lock, Screen capture and Windows Shutdown options. - Added a Popup menu activated by the Right Mouse Button which has the Terminal Lock, Screen capture, Windows Shutdown and InfoSpy help options. - Updated Disk Scan to have a "GOTO TRACK" as well as "NEXT & PREV TRACK" functions. In addition, a Search function was added that will search for strings on the disk. - Modifications to Scheduler: 1) Added Inactivity Sensor that will perform a task after x minutes of inactivity after a specified time. 2) Added Exit Win - Execute a program - Restart Win option. 3) added Execute parameters field. 4) Reduced # of scheduled items to 75 due to memory constraints. - Moved all Heap Examination menu functions to a new DLL -> INFHPDLL. This DLL was added to the IntelliLib list to allow Heap Examination to be selectively loaded or not. - Moved APPLICATION SUMMARY to the INFHPDLL, also added a task selection box to the application summary screen so you don't have to have a Task List active! - Added button to IntelliLib screen that displays a list of menu options affected by each library. - Modified SETUP program to allow customization of Library and INI file path information. - ON TOP feature now lets you select the window to put on top by using a crosshair cursor which you position over the window you want on top. - Corrected bug in DLL search that would get a RTE201 when it tried to read a file that was used by another program. - Updated DISK CLONE routine to allow images to be loaded from image directory by double clicking on them in the list box. Also corrected bug that would cause program to crash when you cloned multiple disks. - Updated WORD SEARCH in file manager to use a larger search buffer, increased search speed 2x. Ver 2.14 - Added SET VOLUME LABEL option to the DISK menu of the File Manager. Lets you Set or Clear Volume Label without formatting. - Added option to ICON SEARCH to save the selected Icon from the list as a Windows Bitmap File which can be transported or loaded into other programs. - Enhanced FILE, WORD & CHAR SEARCH functions of file manager to have File Date and File Size criteria. Can now be used to search for files that were modified on a certain day. - Double Clicking on a selection in the FILE, WORD & CHAR SEARCH list or pressing the SET DIRECTORY button will change the directory of the FILE MANAGER source list to that of the selected file. - The FILE, WORD & CHAR search list remains active between File Search sessions. In other words, you can go back to the list multiple times. Ver 2.13 - Added logic to prevent multiple copies of InfoSpy from being run, gives message to user if a copy is already loaded. - Increased IntelliLib capabilities to search for hanging copies of InfoSpy DLLs, and if it finds any it will unload them prior to loading new copies. - Added Startup status screen indicating what is being loaded, this will help in determining whether InfoSpy is hanging on certain systems... and where! - Changed File Manager library to load the INFVUGBL.DLL for status and progress boxes rather than having its own code. - Added warning dialog to the Comm spy telling the user that their Comm program needs to load before the Comm spy. - Updated DLL parameters for INFNWDLL to help prevent 'Undefined Dynalink'. Disclaimer - Registration Agreement =================================== Users of InfoSpy must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "InfoSpy is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of InfoSpy." InfoSpy is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using InfoSpy and continue to use InfoSpy after a reasonable trial period, you must make register it! The registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. Commercial users of InfoSpy must register and pay for their copies of InfoSpy within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting Dean Software Design. In general, multiple copies of InfoSpy can be registered at the following rates: 1 - 10 copies: $ 14.99 per copy 11 - 20 copies: $140.00 + $14.00 per copy over 10 21 - 50 copies: $260.00 + $13.00 per copy over 20 51 - 100 copies: $600.00 + $12.00 per copy over 50 101+ or site licenses, call us at (206) 316-8645! Anyone distributing InfoSpy for any kind of remuneration must first contact Dean Software Design at the indicated address for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering InfoSpy immediately (However Dean Software Design must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of InfoSpy). You are encouraged to pass a copy of InfoSpy along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registers user receive free technical support for 90 days from the date of registration. Also all registered users receive a free upgrade (on request excluding a $1.00 shipping charge) to the next version of this program when that version becomes available. To report bugs, receive help and bug fixes please send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to: Dean Software Design [75240,65] or, if you do not have access to CompuServe, write to us! Definition Of Shareware ======================= Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details -- some request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual. Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware. Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee - if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it.