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TouchPro V2.0
Copyright (c) 1995-1997 JD Design
All Rights Reserved
What is TouchPro?
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TouchPro is a Windows 95/NT 4 extension that allows you to modify or
"touch", any, or all of a file's time & date values. TouchPro integrates
seamlessly with the Windows Explorer and appears as an extra tabbed dialog
in addition to a file's normal property pages. You can modify multiple
files' time & date values by using a multiple selection and even entire
selected directory trees. The registered version of TouchPro adds several
advanced features over the freeware version.
This freeware version is available for no charge, but limits the
facilities to those available with the earlier freeware version.
Installation
------------
TouchPro is supplied as a compressed file archive. Copy the compressed
file to an empty floppy disk or new sub-directory on your hard disk &
extract the files. When you have uncompressed the supplied file, you
should have the following files in addition to the original:
TouchPro.dll The TouchPro Shell Extension DLL
TouchPro.doc WordPad documentation
TouchPro.txt Text documentation
TouchPro.inf The Setup Information File
Select the TouchPro.inf Setup Information File in an Explorer window and
choose File, Install, or right click on the file and choose the Install
menu.
Installation is quick, merely involving copying of the files to the target
location on your machine and modification of the relevant registry
information. TouchPro is now ready to use.
How Do You Use It?
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Select the files that you want to alter the timestamp on in an Explorer
window.
Display the properties by using the File, Properties menu, or, right click
and choose the Properties menu item.
With TouchPro installed you will see an extra "Touch" page in the
properties dialog.
Click on the "Touch" tab to use TouchPro.
TouchPro enters the current date & time as a default, and allows you to
alter them to whatever you want.
Select whatever options you want by clicking the appropriate check boxes,
and use the "Touch Now" button.
Registered Version Features
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The registered version of TouchPro adds the following advanced features:
Separate time and date modifications. You can alter the time and date
together, just the time, or just the date.
The ability to alter the time & date stamp of folders (this currently
works only on Windows NT).
Control of recursion into folders. You can select folders to have their
timestamp modified, but prevent TouchPro from modifying the files in &
beneath those folders.
The registered version is available as part of our set of utilities. Price
£TBA if drawn on a UK bank, or £TBA for a non UK bank. We also hope to be
able to provide credit card purchasing through a third party.
Note
----
The OK, and Apply buttons on the main Property Page dialog do not perform
the touch operation.
The file's Last Accessed time will change to the current date & time when
you touch any of the time & date values. Because any file access can alter
the Last Accessed time, it may be difficult to ascertain that this feature
works as some Windows 95 shell features access some types of file to
determine context sensitivity.
FAT file systems can not have files dated before 1 January 1980. TouchPro
does not attempt to catch this particular circumstance as Win32 allows
dates before this, and future file systems may permit this obscure
feature. If you currently try to set the time & date to a value before 1
January 1980, TouchPro reports the operation has failed in the same as if
the file were read-only.
FAT file systems have a time resolution of 2 seconds.
Limitations
-----------
Time format is currently 24hr format only.
TouchPro can only alter the "modified" time value for files stored on
Novell Netware drives.
Currently the retail version can only modify folder times under Windows
NT.
Removal
-------
Use the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs item. Select the TouchPro item
(listed as "Touch Property Page Extension") and click the Add/Remove
button.
Because the Windows INF de-installer cannot currently delete files that
are loaded in memory, we recommend that if you want to remove TouchPro,
that you first reboot your machine, and then remove TouchPro without first
using it. This will ensure that the files are correctly deleted.
Contact
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If you have any questions, you can contact us at:
jdd@compuserve.com.
Please take a look at our web site to see the services we offer and
download our other free software utilities.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jdd
If you need help, or have any suggestions for improvements to any of our
utilities, then please contact us via Email. It's always good to hear from
people using our products, so please let us know how you find them.
Thanks
JD Design
162 Mow Cop Road
Mow Cop
Stoke-on-Trent
ST7 4NH
England