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The following review appeared in the June 20, 1995 issue of Windows Magazine
on page 106
Closing Arguments - Ron Bel Bruno
HAVE TROUBLE saying good-bye to Windows? It's easy to forget to log off your
network or check your e-mail when you're closing up shop and clicking your way
out of a long day's computing.
WrapUp, a flip side to Window's StartUp program group, provides a novel way to
remember to shut things down in an orderly fashion. In fact, if you use
Wrapup, you won't have to remember. The program works its wonders within
ShutDown, a program group it asks you to create on your desktop. Once you've
taken the tune to set up this domain, Wrapup takes over.
The program uses conventional icons representing DOS batch files to run
command lines. Use it just before exiting Windows to retrieve your mail, back
up your hard disk or, as the documentation suggests, phone home via your
communications program and drop a note to tell your significant other that
you're on the way.
If batch files and command lines make you nervous, relax. in fact, If you've
ever written even a simple batch or just know what they are - WrapUp won't
stress you out. You drag and drop a program's .EXE file into the ShutDown
program group and WrapUp will run it for you. You can also drop batch files
and macros into WrapUp's ShutDown group.
You can use Windows Write or Notepad to create these batch commands or any
other text editor. I used WinBatch, a shareware program, to create the files
to test WrapUp. With yet another virus scare in the air, I decided to test
WrapUp by plopping a virus-scan program in my ShutDown program group. Now,
when I exit Windows, WrapUp launches the program and runs a virus check on my
hard disk before closing up for the day.
WrapUp is a thought provoking application. The more you use it, the more
useful it seems. No doubt you'll come up with a list of "launchables" for
WrapUp -those must-do, last-minute applications that you always seem to
remember just as you hit the power switch.