Bensheim/Germany September 12th 2004

Hello, AveDesk friends.

Ever wanted to right click on your desktop and add a desklet as easily
as a new folder or shortcut?

This small DLL does this. Extract the contents of the zip to a folder of
your choice. Double click on adutil-register.bat. Click on OK.
For uninstall, double click on adutil-unregister.bat.

Now, when you right click on empty space on your desktop, up to two menu items
are added: "Start AveDesk" or "Stop AveDesk" (depends on AveDesk) and "New Desklet",
if AveDesk is up and running, which will expand to a sub menu of all available
desklets. 

Issues:
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- On 2000, it will place the desklet where the last click occured, if you have
  20+ desklets, you'll have to move it up or so.
- On XP, it will place the desklet where the right click occured in the first place.
- It can't distinguish between the real desktop or a desktop opened in explorer, 
  however the result is always the same.

Futures:
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- Starting with AveDesk 1.3, this thing will also implement a property sheet page
  in the desktop control panel item so that the AveDesk control panel will 
  be available there, by clicking on Properties in the same menu.

Enjoy!

My Aqua-Soft nick is herd and I approve this message.
Watch out for further updates here:

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/forumdisplay.php?f=75

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Updated to version 1.0.0.2 on July 3rd 2005
- added optional avedesk control panel access
- added optional manual updating (for those whose context menu slows down)
- added configuration dialog
- added expansion into themes/skins (supposed to work with 1.3, earliest)
- laid foundation for intergration into the desktop control panel property page

Install / Uninstall:
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expand all files in this archive to a location of your choice,
preferrably over the previous version and run the enclosed
adutil-register.bat by double clicking it.

Uninstall by running adutil-unregister.bat and delete the folder.

In case the file can't be deleted, kill explorer.exe by doing the following:
click start->Shut down
Wait for the shut down options dialog to appear
while holding SHIFT+STRG+ALT pressed, click cancel.

Now you can start explorer with the taskmanager and delete the DLL.

Configure
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Hold shift while right clicking your desktop.
This will add a "Configure..." menu item.
The dialog invoked by this should be quite self explanatory.

Enjoy again.