
Advanced Disk Catalog: README
=============================

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


Contents
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  Introduction
  Requirements
  Installation
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Introduction
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Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC) is an easy to use program with
explorer-like interface which allows you to catalog the drives:
floppy disks, hard drives (including network ones), optical
disks, CD-ROMs, ZIP disks and other media.

With ADC you are able to:

  - Organize volumes, folders and files into categories;
  - Add comment to each file, folder and disk;
  - Analyse ZIP, ARJ, RAR, CAB, ARC, ACE, LZH and TAR archives;
  - Search for files/folders using file name or your own
    comments (with wildcards), limiting the search
    results by date, size and category;
  - Search for files in archives;
  - Update volume information (with saving comments and
    categories);
  - Generate the reports which can be imported from the
    programs like Microsoft Excel;
  - Search for duplicated files;
  - Compare catalogued disk with actual
    (new files, changed files, modified files);
  - Import descriptions from files like "file_id.diz",
    "files.bbs", "descript.ion" etc.;
  - Extract description from executable modules (EXE,
    DLL etc.);
  - Extract descriptions from MP3 and WMA files (ID3 tags etc);
  - Extract information about audio CDs from Internet CD
    database (freedb.org);
  - Extract descriptions from HTML and Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
    files;
  - Extract descriptions from Microsoft Office files (Word,
    Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio);
  - ... and much more.

ADC written totally in C++, doesn't use any database engines and
so very fast. The database generated by ADC is very compact.


Requirements
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- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000
  or Windows XP
- for Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0: Common control library
  (comctl32.dll) version 4.70 or later
- about 2 megabytes of free space on hard disk


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

Important! If you've got ADC 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.

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

Note: the Advanced Disk Catalog may not run correctly under
Windows 95 (prior to OEM Service Release 2) and Windows NT 4.0 if
the new version of common control library (comctl32.dll) is not
installed; the program requires version 4.70 or later. The
installation program of the Advanced Disk Catalog checks what
version do you have, and it'll ask you to update this file if it
is old. If it will happen, get the updated version of this file
from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie/comctrl.asp


History
-------

See "history.txt" file.

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

See "order.txt" file.


Copyright and license
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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 ADC home page in the Internet at
  http://www.elcomsoft.com/adc.html. It's a good chance that you'll
  find the newer version of ADC there.

But if you still have a problem with ADC and noting else helps,
please contact technical support at support@elcomsoft.com.

Please inform us about the following:

  - Advanced Disk Catalog version (from "About" dialog)
  - Advanced Disk Catalog serial number (if you're a registered user)
  - where did you get Advanced Disk Catalog (http or ftp site)
  - Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP 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)

In order to get the complete computer information (working under
Windows 9x), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and
press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.
