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EXPLORER NOTES (VERSION 1.00)
Copyright (c) 1996 Ziff Davis Publishing Company by Neil Rubenking 
First Published November 5, 1996 
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About  EXPLORER NOTEs...
Purpose Explorer Notes enhances Windows 95 Explorer by letting you associate 
a note of up to 255 characters with any file or folder. Explorer Notes adds a fifth 
column to Explorer's detail view for note display; a notes column also appears in 
the detail view of Windows 95 standard file dialogs. The Explorer Notes control 
window provides a Find dialog that lets you find files by searching through your 
notes.

Usage To install Explorer Notes, copy the files Expnotes.exe, Expnotes.hlp, 
Expnotes.cnt, and EN_DLL.DLL into the directory of your choice. All four files 
must reside in the same directory. To set up Explorer Notes so that it runs every 
time you start Windows 95, add it to the StartUp folder. Explorer Notes should 
always be loaded before Explorer. 

Explorer Notes adds an Add/Edit Note menu item to the context menu that 
appears when you right-click on a single file or folder icon. When you select
this menu item, a note-editing dialog displays the file's note, if there is one. 
If you right-click on one of a group of selected items, the added menu item's
text will be Append Note. Selecting this menu item will bring up the same 
note-editing dialog but without the display of existing notes. The text you 
enter will be added to the note for each of the selected items. If an item has no
note, the new text will become its note.

When Explorer Notes is active, it displays a tiny icon in the Taskbar's notification
area. You can click on this icon to bring up the Explorer Notes Control window, 
which contains four buttons: Find, Prune, Help, and About.

To search for a particular note, use the Find button. Occasionally, the Find feature
may inform you that it has found a note, but that the corresponding file doesn't exist.
You can minimize the occurrence of these orphaned notes by doing all of your file
manipulation through Explorer. No matter how careful you are, however, there will
probably be some orphaned notes in Explorer Notes's storage tree. To clean up the
storage tree, press the Prune button in the Control window.

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utilities generally visit this forum daily. You may find the answer to your question 
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available and the forum sysops can't answer your question, the Utilities column 
editor, who also checks this forum each day, will contact the author for you.

Neil J. Rubenking is the technical editor of PC Magazine.
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