A Useful-Thing...selected by Dennis Cummins. Actually, this week we present TWO Useful-Things to our members. We had an extra program that we felt was an excellent program, but did not qualify as a U-T program by itself by virtue of the fact that it would be only of interest to a few members on our list. Our main offering this week is a small, but quite useful app to control your computer's sound volume: VolumeTray ---------- >From the web site: <quote> VolumeTray is a little utility that allows you to adjust volume by several ways: * by clicking with your left or right (volume up/down) mouse button on the icon in the system tray * through assigned system wide hot keys * using command line parameters VolumeTray supports all volume, recording and other audio mixer controls (master volume, wave, midi, line-in, etc) available in Windows. You can use it instead of standard Windows speaker icon in system tray. Also, you have ability to launch Windows default or custom defined Volume Control and Multimedia Control Panel applications from VolumeTray utility. VolumeTray have a icons schemes support. Using icons schemes you can change system tray icons look of VolumeTray. Also, you can make your own icons scheme. <endquote> Yes, you can download or make extra mini-skins (icons) to change the look of your VolumeTray in the system tray. Pretty cool. :-) Dennis makes these comments about the program: "I have always had the little yellow [Volume] icon in my systray. No longer. I will use VolumeTray. This is the way volume control should have been. If you like to have access to the volume control via the tray, then you will want this little app." Okay here are the particulars: Author or company: Slava Glory / Glory Soft URL of the author's Main Web site: http://glory.nm.ru/ URL of the download page: http://glory.nm.ru/vlt_download.html The download file is only 479 KB. You have two choices of locations from which to download the file. Requirements to install and run the program: As far as I can tell the only requirement is to have one of these OS's: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000. Since this is a Russian site, it may load slowly for some of our members, at first. Enjoy! :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~ Okay...tadaaaa....we have a second offering for the technically bent on our list who still makes great use of DOS commands for their .bat files and their file management requirements... xxcopy ------ xxcopy is a command app to replace the MS copy command (which is part of the command.com structure), as well as superceding MS's xcopy and xcopy32 commands as well as the MS robocopy command given as part of the Microsoft's Windows NT/2000 Resource Kit. xxcopy has them all beat, hands down. The features of xxcopy are way to many to list here, given the fact that we are doing two programs this week. For those on the list that makes use of DOS commands for their .bat files or for file management duties, we think you will be pleased with this program and make great use of it. Please visit the web site and read about all the things xxcopy will do for you. The xxcopy command will run in Windows in a DOS prompt window, in a command line or run as part of a .bat script. And of course, you can use it when you shell out to DOS. xxcopy comes in both freeware and shareware flavors, but Dennis believes the freeware version is more than sufficient for all your needs. The author gives tons of support for his program. His web site is full of helpful FAQs and Guides and the author has a mailing list at Yahoogroups. Okay, here are the particulars: Author or company: Pixelab, Inc URL of the author's Main Web site: http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy/index.html URL of the file to download: http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy/index.html#tag_04 You have two choices of download locations. It is about a 25 KB download. Requirements to install and run the program: This should run on: Win95/98/ME/NT/2000 We hope that the members on our U-T list that might be interested in this second program, enjoy it. :-) Alan S. Harrell for himself and Dennis Cummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ashlists.org/useful-things
