This updater will update the following Connectix Desktop Utilities software:
• CDU versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 and 1.0.4a —> version 1.0.5
To run the updater, double-click the “CDU 1.0.5 Updater.” The updater will ask you to locate the file listed above. The “CDU” file is a control panel and can be found in the “Control Panels” folder of your system folder. The updater will update the file in place, so be sure to make a backup of the original file. To complete the update, drag the “CDU Help File” into the “CDU Prefs” folder in the “Preferences” folder of your system folder and restart.
NOTE: This updater is not capable of updating the original release (version 1.0) of CDU to the current version. Please contact our customer service department to obtain an upgrade disk.
* A new electronic manual which documents all of CDU’s features is available. You may obtain the new manual in the same location as this updater on the Internet and in our forums on the major online services.
• Fixed problems which could cause crashes with dynamic screen reconfiguration (for example, changing the menu bar from one screen to another on a dual monitor system, changing monitor resolutions, etc.).
• Fixed a problem which could cause a crash when using a color scheme other than Normal.
• Fixed a problem which would prevent password security at startup from working on some Power Macintoshes.
• Graphic security will function properly when the startup monitor is not the main screen or the startup monitor’s resolution is changed.
• Compatibility enhancements including fixes for multi-byte script systems and PCI-based Macintosh computers.
CDU 1.0.4a
• Some portions were optimized for use on Power Macintoshes.
• “Bookmarking” works with System 7.5’s Apple Menu Options control panel.
• Fixed a problem which would cause the CDU control panel to be truncated on the SE and SE/30’s 9" screens.
CDU 1.0.4
• Added full “bookmarking” feature to restore desktop after auto shutdown.
• Implemented EPA Energy Star compliant controlling device requirements.
• Cursors feature has been removed.
CDU 1.0.3
• Improved Disk Activity Indicator compatibility.
CDU 1.0.2
• Improved compatibility with Apple’s At Ease.
• Improved memory usage when using virtual memory.
CDU 1.0.1
• A new option in Power Saver which can automatically save your files during Auto-Shutdown.
• The Desktop Picture is now centered correctly on monitors with dynamic resolution.
• Anywhere “Power Saver” appeared it has been replaced with “Energy Star.”
• Several icons and PICTs have changed to better reflect the Energy Star status of the product.
Bookmarking
• If “Save Documents during Auto-Shutdown” is checked (see below), CDU restores all open files and applications when you restart your machine after an automatic shutdown. This feature is referred to as bookmarking by the EPA. This insures that any machine automatically shut down to conserve energy comes back up to the state it was in prior to shutdown.
Save Documents during Auto-Shutdown
• There is a new “Save Documents during Auto-Shutdown” checkbox in Energy Star. When is this feature is enabled, CDU automatically saves your documents before shutting down. Documents which have never been saved (in other words, “Untitled” documents) are saved with unique filenames to a “Work In Progress MM/DD/YY” folder on the desktop, where “MM/DD/YY” is the date at shutdown. File Sharing is also turned off during Auto-Shutdown.
If “Save Documents during Auto-Shutdown” is disabled, Auto-Shutdown halts when an application asks if you want to save a file or File Sharing is on and remote users are connected.
• If you are not using "Rotate Items" to rotate through the items in the CDU menu, you can manually rotate through the display items by option-clicking on the CDU menu (a regular click drops the menu, of course).
• During installation on machines in your office, you may wish to type in your home telephone number and address in the configuration dialog. This information may be displayed if Security is preventing access to your machine. If a co-worker needs access to your machine when you are not available, they can then see where to get in touch with you.
• If Security is active, background programs will still be able to continue processing; however the foreground application will be suspended until the correct password is entered.
• The File Sharing selection in the CDU menu is a temporary toggle; use it to temporarily enable or disable File Sharing. On the next restart, File Sharing will revert to the state you last set in the Sharing Setup control panel. Use the Sharing Setup control panel to make File Sharing permanently active or inactive on subsequent restarts.
• Some types of displays (for example, the SE and SE/30 internal screens, and some monochrome video adapters) cannot be dimmed. These displays will be fully darkened by CDU leaving no visible image. However, if another screen saver is loaded before CDU, CDU will not darken these screens.
Q: When I select the Energy Star panel in Fine-Tune mode, the Auto-Shutdown controls are not present. Why?
A: CDU cannot perform Auto-Shutdown if the Macintosh is not capable of software power-off. As of the date of this release, the Macintosh SE, SE/30, LC I, LC II, LC III, Performa 400 series, Centris 610, Centris 660av, Quadra 610, Quadra 660av, Power Macintosh 6100/60, Power Macintosh 6100/66 and Performa 6100 series computers are not capable of software power-off unless an external power switch (e.g. Sophisticated Circuits PowerKey) and its software is used.
Q: Why doesn't my Macintosh automatically shutdown after the Energy Star Auto-Shutdown timer expires?
A: Some applications present a dialog to you asking for a file to open when the application's icon is double-clicked. If an application is left in this state (that is, with the standard file dialog in front), it can stall CDU's automatic shutdown process. To avoid this problem, select a file to open from this dialog when the application is launched or adjust the application's preferences so that it does not automatically ask for a file to open.
NOTE FOR USERS OF MICROSOFT EXCEL 5 AND WORD 6: When saving an untitled document, Microsoft Excel 5.0 and Word 6.0 may prompt you to enter summary information. This dialog will stop CDU’s automatic shutdown. As a workaround, turn off “Prompt for Summary Info” in Excel’s “General” and Word’s “Save” preferences. You can access the preferences from the “Options…” command in the Tools menu.
Q: Why didn’t the appropriate action occur when using CDU Hot Keys?
A: Some of CDU’s default hot keys could be the same default hot keys as other products. These types of conflicts are unavoidable and can be overcome simply by reassigning one of the two keys to another key combination.
Q. Why does Keyboard Power randomly stop responding to key commands now that I have installed System 7.5?
A. We have found that Keyboard Power's menu keys will occasionally fail to respond if you are running System 7.5. The problem is eliminated if some form of extended memory (Virtual Memory or RAM Doubler) is activated. Unfortunately, the cause for this problem is unclear. We will continue to search for a more permanent solution.
Q: Why doesn’t Keyboard Power work properly with WYSIWYG Menus or Now Menus 4.0/4.0.1?
A: When using Keyboard Power arrow keys in a WYSIWYG menu, the cursor may lock up. When using Keyboard Power with Now Menus 4.0/4.0.1, Keyboard Power may not select the proper items on menus which are long enough to be scrolled.
You may still use Keyboard Power with WYSIWYG menus or Now Menus. To avoid conflicts do not use Keyboard Power in a WYSIWYG menu or in a Now Menu that is long enough to be scrolled. Connectix is working with Now Software to find a solution to this problem.
Q: Auto drop or click drop menus do not seem to work. What should I do?
A: This feature may not function properly if you have another utility that provides the same feature, such as Now Menus. To avoid this type of conflict, enable this feature in only one of your utilities.
Q: Will Keyboard Power work in menus created by other extensions?
A: Yes, extensions (for example: Kiwi PowerWindows, WordFinder+, etc.) that add their own menus in the menu bar should load after CDU in order to be accessed by Keyboard Power.
Q: My password is not accepted by the security field, what next?
A: CDU’s security is case sensitive, be sure to enter the appropriate capital letters or click the caps lock key when entering your password. CDU also allows you to have different passwords in different sets or for different users, therefore you need to enter the appropriate password for the user and set that is running at sleep or shut down.
Q: I forgot my password, and CDU will not let me change the password. What can I do to reconfigure security?
A: If a password is only used in one set, select a set with no password and “punch through” the password to all the sets by holding down the Command and Option keys and click in the old password field to “punch through” the password. Otherwise delete the set to remove the password associated with that set.
Q: I remove the CDU control panel from the System Folder but security still appears at startup. How do I remove security?
A: Before removing CDU from the System Folder, turn off Security in the current set and then “punch-through” the setting to all other sets by holding down the command and option keys and clicking on the Security master switch. Or, run the CDU installer and select the remove option to remove CDU fully.
Q: Why does my desktop picture appear black or garbled after startup, but when I reselect the desktop picture in the CDU control panel it appears normally?
A: Now Startup Manager’s “Prevent Against Erasure” feature prevents CDU from initializing the desktop picture at startup. You must turn this feature off in Now Startup Manager’s preferences in order for CDU to properly display the desktop picture after startup.
Q: After using Netscape, the background color of all of my windows have changed to the last background window color used by Netscape. Why?
A: Netscape modifies its windows’ background color using a method which is not compatible with CDU’s color schemes feature. To avoid this problem, use the “Normal” color scheme or uncheck “Special Color Schemes” in the Desktop panel in Fine-Tune mode.
Q: Why does only one application show its windows at a time?
A: In order to help you avoid a cluttered desktop, CDU's AppManager can automatically hide an application’s windows when it is in the background. If you want to temporarily see all of your applications’ windows, select “Show All” from the System 7 Application Menu. You can turn this feature off by unchecking “Hide Background Apps” in QuickConfigure mode or by unchecking “Hide Background Applications” in the AppManager panel in Fine-Tune mode.
Q: One of my applications crashes when I launch it with CDU installed. What is going on?
A: CDU's Balloon Help panel allows you to remove the Balloon Help menu to regain menubar space. Some applications assume the presence of a Balloon Help menu and crash when there is none. To avoid problems with such programs, turn off “Remove Balloon Help” in QuickConfigure mode or “Remove Balloon Help” in the Balloon Help panel in Fine-Tune mode.
Q: How come the CDU display does not appear in the menubar when using certain applications?
A: Some programs use the whole menu bar. In this case, CDU will remove its display from the menu bar. Choose a smaller font or size in the CDU Display panel to allow the display to fit in the menu. If you want to quickly access the CDU control panel but can’t access the CDU menu, use the configure CDU hot key to launch the control panel (the default combination is Shift-Command-Option-u).
Q: The disk activity indicator is turned on but does not appear. What is wrong?
A: SCSI Manager 4.3 — which is in the ROM of the Centris 660av, Quadra 660av, Quadra 840av and Power Macintosh computers and is available as an extension for the Quadra family — provides a new way to access SCSI devices. CDU cannot detect SCSI activity conducted through the new SCSI Manager and will therefore not display activity by SCSI drivers which use the new calls.
Q: Why do I get Postscript errors during printing after using CDU to switch my network Postscript printer?
A: LaserWriter 8 (a.k.a. PSWriter) provides a new method for specifying Postscript printer capabilities through the use of Postscript Printer Description (PPD) files. Currently, CDU is not capable of switching the current PPD to one designed for use by a particular printer model. If you switch among printers which are the same or have the same capabilities, using CDU to perform the switch should not result in any problems. However, switching among printers with much different features may result in Postscript errors during printing. The only way to properly switch network printers using the LaserWriter 8 driver is through the Chooser desk accessory or the Desktop Print Monitor extension.
You may still use CDU to switch among network Postscript printers using LaserWriter drivers earlier than version 8.0.
Q: Why does my serial printer print garbage when I start up?
A: CDU is set to always make AppleTalk available by default. This will cause some serial printers to print garbage at startup if they are connected to the printer port. If you do not use AppleTalk, uncheck the “AppleTalk Always Available” feature in the Expert panel to prevent this from happening.
Q: Should CDU load in any particular order?
A: When using other extensions, you may need to change the loading order. In System 7, INITs load alphabetically from the Extensions Folder, then from the Control Panels folder, and finally from the System Folder itself. To change the load order of items, add a space in front of its name to put it higher in the alphabetical list. If you need a control panel to load before an extension, move the control panel to the Extensions folder, make an alias, and put the alias in the Control Panels folder.
CDU Loading Order Suggestions:
• Alysis SuperDisk! should load after CDU.
• Olduvai Multiclip should load after CDU.
• Berkeley Systems After Dark screen saver should load before CDU.
• Aladdin Magic Menu should load before CDU.
• Extensions that add their own menus in the menu bar, except for Magic Menu, should load after CDU in order to be accessed by Keyboard Power.
• File Sharing Extension must load before CDU in order for CDU’s File Sharing menu item to appear.
