Tab2Desk V2
Copyright  1996-1997 JD Design
All Rights Reserved

What is Tab2Desk?
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Tab2Desk is a small Windows 95/NT 4 application that lets you use the 
Taskbar's "Minimize All Windows"/"Undo Minimize All" facilities from the 
keyboard and get to your desktop icons without having to use the mouse.

It finally answers the question with Windows Explorer of "why can't I use 
Alt+Tab to get to the desktop?".

Installation
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Tab2Desk is supplied as a compressed file archive. Copy the compressed 
file to an empty floppy disk or new sub-directory on your hard disk & 
extract the files. When you have uncompressed the supplied file, you 
should have the following files in addition to the original:

Tab2Desk.exe	The program
Tab2Desk.txt	Text documentation
Tab2Desk.doc	WordPad documentation
Tab2Desk.inf	Setup Information

To Install Tab2Desk, select the Tab2Desk.inf Setup Information File in an 
Explorer window and choose File, Install, or right click on the file and 
choose the Install menu. This will copy the Tab2Desk program and INF file 
and install a shortcut to the program in your startup menu group.

To start Tab2Desk now, choose Start, Programs, StartUp, and the Tab2Desk 
link.

With the link in your Startup group, Tab2Desk will startup automatically 
whenever you restart Windows.

How Do You Use It?
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This takes longer to explain in writing than it does if you try it, you'll 
find it easier just to run Tab2Desk & use Alt+Tab to the Tab2Desk icon & 
see what it does.

Once Tab2Desk is running you won't be aware of it except when you use the 
Alt+Tab task switch facility. If you have any windows open and switch to 
the Tab2Desk application (which will indicate "Minimize All Windows"), 
Tab2Desk will use the taskbar's facility to minimize all windows. 
Additionally, it will activate the desktop so that you can use the 
keyboard cursor keys to move around any icons on your desktop.

If you switch to Tab2Desk once you have previously minimized all windows, 
it will indicate "Restore Windows to Desktop". It will now use the 
taskbar's "Undo Minimize All" facility to restore any previously minimized 
windows.

Note
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Tab2Desk refreshes its caption text slowly so as not to provide any 
noticeable extra load on your system. If you're quick with trying out 
Tab2Desk, you may find that it displays the wrong caption. However, in 
normal usage we don't expect that you'll see any problems. If you do, just 
let us know.

Tab2Desk will indicate "Restore Windows to Desktop" if you have manually 
minimized all open windows. In this situation the taskbar's has its "Undo 
Minimize All" menu item disabled, so nothing will happen.

Closing Down Tab2Desk
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Because of the way that Tab2Desk works, closing it down is a little 
convoluted. Use Alt+Tab to display the Tab2Desk icon item, release the Tab 
key and hold down the Ctrl key, then release the Alt key (again, it's 
easier to do than it is to explain). This brings up the Tab2Desk About 
box. From here you can close down Tab2Desk using the Exit button, or allow 
Tab2Desk to continue. Alternatively (as you can't use the prior method 
under NT4), if you start up another copy of Tab2Desk, it will close down 
in the same way.

Removal
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Before you remove Tab2Desk, you need to close it down - see the section 
above.

Use the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs item. Select the Tab2Desk item 
and click the Add/Remove button.

Contact
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If you have any questions, you can contact us at:

	jdd@compuserve.com.

Please take a look at our web site to see the services we offer and 
download our other free software utilities.

	http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jdd

If you need help, or have any suggestions for improvements to any of our 
utilities, then please contact us via Email. It's always good to hear from 
people using our products, so please let us know how you find them.

Thanks
	JD Design
	162 Mow Cop Road
	Mow Cop
	Stoke-on-Trent
	ST7 4NH
	England
