Welcome to FTbar! ('Find Task' bar) version 4.5
Copyright (C) 1997-1998 OwnerWorld Software
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. System Requirements
3. Installation and deinstallation
4. Licensing
5. Contacting OwnerWorld Software


1. Introduction

FTbar! ('Find Task' bar) is a utility that helps you in performing the three most frequent actions when working in Windows environment: 

	o to launch quickly the application you need (to find a button to push on for the application to begin running). This is the beginning of your work -- you launch some applications to work with. 

	o to switch quickly to the window of interest (to find a window). You frequently switch between the windows of your applications  switching to the window is the first and necessary step to be done when you want to switch to another task/application/document.

	o to scroll easily to the document's item of interest (to find an item of work).  It may be one of the most frequent actions you perform (especially when surfing the Internet)  any help in quick and easy scrolling to the item of the document would be greatly appreciated.

All tools/utilities currently presented at the market address the problem "how to START an application in the fastest way?", while none of them helps in "how to SWITCH to the window of interest in the fastest way?" -- all of them rely on the Task Bar. But what do you do more frequently when working in the windows environment? 

FTbar! makes the process of switching between windows as fast as possible. And it also has some additional and very useful features for quick application launching and easy scrolling, which neither the Task Bar nor the other utilities do not provide.

There are also some utilities for help in scrolling your documents using the mouse, but none of them provides such useful and easy to use features as FTbar! does.

Only FTbar! provides an integrated, 3-in-1 solution which greatly increases your productivity when performing the most frequent everyday actions: launching applications, switching between windows, scrolling documents. FTbar! is a "must-have" utility for those who needs 100% efficiency of their work:

	o while keeping window buttons always visible, FTbar! does not waste any pixel of your screen space;

	o small icon buttons placed together make it much simpler to choose the window you need to switch to;

	o by arranging your window buttons in groups you can fix their position in the row from session to session. This makes finding the button of the window you want to switch to even more quick and  easy;	o FTbar! provides quick access to all Start Menu items, also including My Computer and desktop items;

	o special folders of the My Computer menu (Control Panel, Printers, Dial-Up Networking) are expandable submenu, thus making the access to their items quick and easy;

	o the "hot buttons" feature allows you to display menus by just moving the cursor over the menu buttons - all your applications are now only one click away;

	o group your favorite shortcuts and create as many your own Start Menus as you want;

	o drag-and-drop an object -- shortcut or file -- onto the menu button to create a menu item;

	o quick and simple menu customizing -- FTbar! pops up a context menu for the item if you select the item from the menu with the right mouse button (even if the item is a sub-menu -- this allows to use cut-copy-paste operations to move easily the shortcuts between your menus or submenus);

	o incredible scrolling features may be assigned to the buttons of your mouse. There is no need of mouse-wheel or extra mouse buttons - just use the mouse you already have.

All features of FTbar! are well thought-out and substantiated.

FTbar! is a shareware product, registration fee for fully-functional 
version is US $24.95.


2. System Requirements

	- 80386 or higher required;
	- mouse;
	- 500kb free disk space;
	- Microsoft Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 or higher (restricted functionality
	  is provided on Windows NT 3.51).


3. Installation and deinstallation

To install FTbar!, change your current directory to the one contained the file Setup.exe, then run Setup.exe and follow the on-screen instructions.

To deinstall FTbar! under Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, activate the Add/Remove Programs item from the Control Panel, then double click on FTbar! item in the list.

To deinstall FTbar! under Windows NT 3.5*, change your current directory to the one contained the file Uninstall.exe and run it.


4. Licensing

FTbar! is Shareware, which means that you may evaluate it for a
period of ten (10) days from the date of its original installation and use.
After the evaluation period has elapsed you must register it.
The registration fee for FTbar! is US $24.95 (see the file License.txt for
complete license agreement, see the file Register.txt on how to register 
FTbar!).


5. Contacting OwnerWorld Software

E-mail:	OwnerWorld@kagi.com

WWW:	http://www.kagi.com/OwnerWorld

Mail:	Kagi
	1442-A Walnut Street #392-3Q8
	Berkeley, California, 94709-1405
	USA
