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Box 6674 Annapolis MD 21401 (301)26616717XThere are a few glaring weaknesses in Windows even ah  Windows 3.0. For example, the product completely takes over ah  your system's resources (a necessary evil) rendering such critical utilities as screen blankers useless. So, it's no surprise that the ranks of enterprising software developers who are creating tools to extend Windows' functionality are so full. ah  OXKO (an acronym for OXman Knowledge Organization) is ah  not the developer of WindowsTools, merely the U.S. dis ah ԭtributor, but they've hitched their wagon to a product that could well see their name become synonymous with well thought out, well implemented software. It's not that Win ah ԭdowsTools does that many things unavailable elsewhere, but ah  it's one of the rare utilities packages that compartmentalizes its code in a manner that allows you to run only what you need, saving both RAM and disk space. $88> ! 7$XDeveloped by a German ! 7company named Gesys, Win ah ԭ! 7dowsTools is comprised of ah  ! 7about twenty individual ! 7programs that all can be ! 7!0 7run independently, or from ! 7!0 7an included integration and ! 7!0 7disk management program ! 7!0 7called Program Starter. ! 7!0 7Essentially a clone of Win ah ԭ! 7!0 7dows' Program Manger shell ah  ! 7!0 7facility, Program Starter ! 7provides integrated direct ! 7access to the various pro! 7grams that make up Win ah ԭ! 7dowsTools (plus whatever ah  ! 7other programs you desig v88nate), as well as the ability to display and change your system's PATH statement, display directory trees, and move files from assignment in one directory to another. It's text driven, rather than iconic, and doesn't provide a compelling reason for its own use. We recommend deleting it from your system, and moving on. XInstalling WindowsTools is a matter of running the program ah  provided for that purpose. The documentation indicates that it can only be run from DOS's command line, but it can in fact be used as indicated, or from within Windows via a "run" ah  command directed at it, or by choosing it using File Manager. You must create the directory you intend to use for storage before installation, and the process then places Program Starter in the directory you've named, creates a subdirectory called "TTOOLS", and puts the utilities themselves there. Install also places two copies of a program that makes certain system calls on your disk. This program is used only by the screen blanking utility, and if you choose not to take advantage of that particular tool's services, the copies may both be deleted, as well. In any event, kill the copy that is placed in the directory which contains Program Starter it serves no purpose. The WIN.INI configuration file is also amended, to include a path statement to aid Program Starter in its search for the other files.5 F0! l7 !0 h7!5ԌKMOnce installed (at a total cost of some 450 kilobytes of disk space), you can start using the tools, which individually occupy from 7K to 43K of room. The programs' more generic functions include several that are found in many other packages, such as a screen blanker (it can be customized to take effect after as long as 900 minutes), a system hardware survey, displayonly monthly calendar covering the period from January 1900 to December 2199, stopwatch, file locator, and a tool for setting file attributes. Also included are some very useful programs that provide benefits not as easily found elsewhere, if at all. The pesky step of transferring the contents of Clipboard to an application program before printing it is eliminated, a programmer's hexadecimal calculator augments Windows' own standard/scientific Calc, you ah  get a utility from which the Backup/Restore programs in DOS can be used, ASCII and ANSI character charts in several languages, and a (not very useful in Windows 3.0) dynamic ah  free memory counter. WindowsTools also has alarm and ah  ! 7countdown timers (which even work when you are using DOS ! 7or an application, full screen in 386 enhanced mode), an ! 7album for storing your bitmapped graphics files for easy ! 7access, and a measurement conversion program that handles ! 7temperature, pressure, power, energy, and an assortment of ! 7!0 7U.S., British, and German linear, nautical, volume, and area ! 7!0 7manipulations. ! 7!0 7KMMost impressive is a program called Camera, which takes a ! 7!0 7"snapshot" of any part of your screen, is aware of a particular ! 7!0 7window's boundaries, and can even be used to capture screen ! 7!0 7objects such as a buttons and dialogue boxes, eliminated the ! 7!0 7need for painstaking edits of such images. This could spell the ! 7end of an era for such specialized programs as Atech's Pizazz ah  ! 7Plus. WindowsTools adds one other module of note, which ah  ! 7unfortunately is not as well implemented as it could be. You ! 7can display the time and date from as many as sixteen time ! 7zones on screen at once, each personalized with the title of your choice. Too bad they need to be reset manually every time you run Windows. ah  KMIf there's any flaw in WindowsTools, it's documentation. ah  Translated from German, the basically clear text suffers from syntax errors and uneven grammar. This can be overlooked, but there's a more serious problem. WindowsTools provides ah  no online help, and the relatively short printed documentation is housed in a three ring binder that simply takes up too much space for its own good, especially when you consider that many users will only need several pages covering their favorite tools. KLe Windows Spell ă KLhPalsoftă KMWe know what Windows Spell is, and we know what ah  Windows Spell does. The question is, is this the way to ah  implement spell checking under Windows? ah  KMConsisting of just three files occupying under 350 kilobytes of disk space (and in an interesting twist for Windows, simply ah  copied to the directory of your choice there's no installation procedure), Windows Spell is the first of a small suite of ah  applications for Windows 3.0 planned by Palsoft. Yet to come ah  are a word processor, flat file database, and scanner control