SClock Plus v1.62
for Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Copyright (c) 2000 ShellToys Inc., Sergey Gazizyanov. All rights reserved.


Table of Contents
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1. Description
2. Requirements
3. Installation
4. Uninstallation
5. Documentation
6. License and ordering


1. Description

  SClock Plus is an easy-to-use desktop multilingual speaking clock
  with skin support and full-featured alarm system, that allows an
  user to set multiple alarms. Each alarm can be set to go off at
  various intervals: daily, Monday, Tuesday... Saturday, Sunday
  of every week, etc. You can set each alarm to run an application,
  play a wave file, open a document or a picture, or just display
  a message. SClock can be vastly customized and its size is 40 Kb only!

  SClock Plus includes features:

   - possibility to announce the time in the language of your choice;
   - support of a bitmap skins;
   - possibility to set up to 15 alarms;
   - possibility of runing of the external programs at the defined time;
   - possibility of usage of the Windows registered types, for example,
     opening TXT-files at the defined time, DOC-files etc.;
   - chime sound schemes. You can create a different chime for every
     quarter-hour;
   - possibility to position the clock anywhere on the screen;
   - "always on top" feature;
   - popup menu for easy customizing;
   - detection of another running copy of SClock Plus;
   - choice of 12 or 24 hr format;
   - controlling by hotkeys;
   - hiding in the system tray;
   - locking/unlocking of SClock position;
   - fast program configuring "on the fly";
   - keep a focus on the active window when an alarm window appears;
   - restoring parameters on start;
   - auto-save of settings;
   - context sensitive help;
   - extremely small size (size of EXE-file is 40kb!);
   - full install/uninstall support;
   - pure Win32 API code.


2. Requirements

  80486 based IBM PC compatible computer (or higher)
  4 Mb of free memory
  About 1500 Kb of free disk space
  Microsoft Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000
  Windows-compatible sound card
  A mouse
  SVGA card with High color mode is strongly recommended


3. Installation

  If you've downloaded the self-extracting installation 
  package named 'sclock.exe' just execute it and follow the 
  setup instructions.

  If you've downloaded the compressed archive file named 
  like 'sclock.zip' unpack it to the temporary folder
  and execute the sclock.exe file.

  After the succesful installation run the program from
  new "SClock Plus" program group.


4. Uninstallation

  Run 'Uninstall SClock Plus' from "SClock Plus" group.


5. Documentation

  For full documentation, including context sensitive help,
  select 'Help' menu item from SClock popup menu or select
  'SClock Help' from 'SClock Plus' program group.


6. License and ordering

  SClock Plus is shareware. See license.txt and order.txt for details.


ShellToys Inc.
http://www.shelltoys.com/sclock/index.shtml
E-mail: sclock@shelltoys.com
