FilesCollection: README
=============================

Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
--------

  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Installation
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Program information
-------------------

Program Archive Name:
  fc.zip
Program Name:
  FilesCollection
Program Version:
  1.04
Program Release Date:
  June 05, 2001
Program Description:
  Indexing system - index your disks, folders and files, makes search
Target OS:
  Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000
Software type:
  Shareware 20-day trial


Company information
-------------------

Developer, Distributor and Copyright Holder:
  Programs2k company
Contact E-mail Address:
  filescollection@programs2k.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.programs2k.com


Description
-----------

FilesCollection makes use of an Explorer-like 
interface to let you index the all fixed, 
removable media, and network drives on your 
system and archives on them.

With FC you are able to:

  - Indexes volumes, folders and files;
  - Add comment to each file, folder and disk;
  - Analyse ZIP, ARJ, RAR, CAB, ARC and etc archives;
  - Search for files/folders using file name (with wildcards);
  - Search for files in archives;
  - Search for phrase in descriptions;
  - Import descriptions from files like "readme.txt", 
    "file_id.diz","files.bbs", "descript.ion" etc.;
  - Extract descriptions from MP3 files (ID3 tags etc);
  - drag & drop files from Windows Explorer; 
  - "Create new index" integrated in context menu of Windows Explorer;
  - ... and much more.

FC doesn't use any database engines and so very fast. Index files 
generated by FC is very compact.


Installation
------------

Important! If you've got FC not from our web page, but from
the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
usually, we release the updates about once a month.

We recommend you to uninstall the previous version of FC (if
you have one) from your computer before installing this one. You
can do this via "Add/Remove Programs" Control Panel applet. If
you'll get the notification that the FC folder is not empty, be
careful when removing it: it may contain the .fcidx files (the
databases created by FC) you may wish to keep.

To install FC, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the
instructions. You'll need to select the target directory
to install.

Registration
------------

See "order.txt" file.


Copyright and license
---------------------

See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
-----------------

Before you contact us, please do the following:

  - Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
    mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
  - Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to
    your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
    do I:", though the complete information is there.
  - Visit FC home page in the Internet at
    http://www.programs2k.com. It's a good chance that you'll
    find the newer version of FC there. If the serious bug has
    been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet,
    we make the hot fix for it.

But if you still have a problem with FC and nothing else helps,
please contact technical support at support@programs2k.com.

Please inform us about the following, if you can:

  - FilesCollection version (from "About" dialog)
  - your registration name and e-mail (if you're a registered user)
  - where did you get FilesCollection (http or ftp site)
  - Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 version (including service packs and 
    other fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
  - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
  - description of your problem (as much information as possible
    to retrieve the problem)

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.

Updates
-------

  - If you have got FC not from our web site, but from the  other  
    source  (magazine  CD or some software library), please
    visit our web site - you will probably find the later version.

  - FC  may  not  run correctly if the new version of common controls 
    library (comctl32.dll) is not installed. The program requires version
    4.70 or later. This new version is already available in Windows 95 OEM 
    Service Release 2 and Windows NT 4.0. You may also have it if you're 
    using Internet Explorer 3.x or later. If your file is outdated, just 
    download the update and install it on your computer. For downloads and 
    information, go to:
    http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie/comctrl.asp

  - In  order to navigate the online help system, which is shipped with
    the FC, you need the Microsoft HTML Help component installed on your 
    computer. This component is already available in latest versions of 
    Windows and Internet Explorer. You may download Microsoft HTML Help 
    component and updates from the Microsoft site.
    For downloads and information, go to:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/download.htm
