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Arguably, though, there are times when they simply don't do enough , or aren't always easy to learn, or use, or both. File Manager comes to mind immediately; it's a tremendous improvement over the MSDOS Executive that served similar functions in earlier versions of Windows, but ah  getting to it isn't always easy. Even if you organize your desktop to include a running copy of File Manager, making it accessible via a simple and then arrow key driven key sequence, the tool is still too slow for many users' liking. y!a +yjddPROFILEy U 1  1 9!A(0 hhAddq>( 3t> XA  Product Name  3 [ PA,  :=  METZ Tools $5 $30 METZ Software P.O. Box 6042 Bellevue WA 980080042 (206)64656009XMicrosoft Windows Applications, from Art Metz' METZ ah  Software, address some of the shortcomings in Windows. A ah  $888 ! 7$collection of utilities that ! 7are also available separately ! 7from the publisher or can ! 7be located as shareware on ! 7many bulletin boards, the ! 7!0 7collection is made up of ! 7!0 7Task Manager, Desktop Na ah ԭ! 7!0 7vigator, Desktop Manager, ah  ! 7!0 7Phones, and several subsets ah  ! 7!0 7of those tools also available ! 7!0 7a la carte: Dialer, Freemem, ah  ! 7!0 7Lock, Runner, and Time. ah  ! 7XAt the price, purchasing ! 7the sliced up items would ! 7be silly; they carry price ! 7tags of ten to twenty dol! 7lars, and since Navigator ah   p88and Manager each cost just thirty dollars and provide all the ah  individual pieces' functionality (Phones costs twenty dollars, ah  and is a more powerful and feature laden version of Dialer), ah  go for one of them. Task Manager, a direct replacement for ah  (and more powerful version of) Windows' Program Manager, ah  also sells for just thirty dollars. XUnder Windows 3.0, RAM usage is virtually a moot point. ah  In the case of storage issues, the METZ products are as inconsequential; none occupy more than 120 kilobytes of disk space. Interestingly, Desktop Manager and Desktop Navigator ah  both include versions of Freemem, a utility for measuring the ah  largest contiguous block of memory currently available. As alluded to above, the results are inconsequential under Windows 3.0. Both Desktop Manager and Desktop Navigator ah  also include functional nearequivalents of Lock (password ah  security for your system that, once invoked, steadfastly refuses to allow access), Time (a configurable clock and calendar), ah  and Runner, which instantly provides a popup box in which ah  you type the path and name of the program you want to run. There's nothing extraordinary about any of these abilities, but they are indisputable improvements over their equals in an unadorned Windows. ah  XBesides these ancillary services, Desktop Navigator and ah  Desktop Manager serve as file and directory managers. Faster5 d0! c7!0 h7!5 then File Manager, they also provide better window control, adding a more powerful cascading feature and several other innovations to Windows' abilities in this area. Unlike Program ah  Manager, however, Desktop Navigator and Desktop Manager ah  are text based; icons are not used to represent applications. The two programs differ from each other in that Desktop ah  Manager is a user customized "desktop" from which you can ah  choose any programs and options you want to provide instant access to, while Desktop Navigator uses a directory tree ah  structure for its operation. NPDialer, a part of Phones, is an autodialer that uses a ah  graphical keypad resembling a touch tone phone for input. Phones excels over its little brother in that it provides easier ah  management of phone numbers via the ability to create multiple directories, and to look up numbers by clicking on the first letter of the desired party's name from a graphically represented phonebook. ! 7NPThey're cheap, fast, and well behaved, and they are improve! 7ments over their Windows counterparts, where parallels exist. ah  ! 7Nothing flashy, Desktop Navigator and Desktop Manager are ah  ! 7able tools, nonetheless. ! 7 ! 7NLj PowerPoint ă ! 7!0 7NLeMicrosoft Corporationă ! 7!0 7 ! 7!0 7NPWe quote from PowerPoint's box: "Microsoft PowerPoint ah  ! 7!0 7software will literally transform the way you think about ! 7!0 7presentations. It's specifically designed to let you, the present! 7!0 7er, create professionallooking, highquality overhead and ! 7!0 735mm slide presentations, quickly and easily." ! 7NPFact is, we agree. Combining the ease of use of the Win ah ԭ! 7dows environment in its intended implementation with a few ah  ! 7tricks not seen anywhere else, PowerPoint is simply the most ah  ! 7intuitive, easiest to learn presentation graphics program we've ! 7ever seen. It's likely to make you wonder aloud, "why didn't anybody ever do that before?" NPThat's the bottom line, and we'll say right now that we're happy to give PowerPoint a checkrating. Is it perfect? Not ah  nearly. PowerPoint's deficient drawing tools make owning a ah  separate program for the task all but a necessity unless you plan to use text and clip art exclusively in your presentations (the accompanying library of several hundred 256color images is lots of fun, but when other packages in the category include offerings numbering in the thousands, it's not enough, and it's too cartoonlike). The presentation templates and background screens, though, are very good. There are none of the special effects for screen changes so common in other packages, nor can you flip, invert, or mirror images. Once an image is in PowerPoint, you can move and resize it to your ah  heart's content, but that's about it. Loading the program and firsttime screen draws are agonizingly slow (redraws are much better), and EVERY file samples, templates, even the help system distributed as support for PowerPoint is ah  formatted as a presentation. This last point has its good elements, but the fact that the help system is not even minimally contextsensitive represents a disturbing departure from Microsoft's usual practices effecting Windows applica ah ԭtions. In this regard, PowerPoint is too close a clone of its  ah  MacIntosh ancestor. PowerPoint's font handling is also