Screen Shot Gallery -- Windows® NT/2000 Shareware
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Windows NT, created in the early 1990's, existed before the "Internet Age" and shareware software for this
operating system was distributed in may ways over the years. From racks of floppy disks in software stores to archive downloads on bulletin board
services (BBSs) to Internet website downloads from the mid-1990's and later.
The shareware "try before you buy" concept offers users free trials of software. Most commercial software companies will not let you return products once their shrinkwrapped packages have been opened. After finding the shareware program that best meets your needs, to both obtain the full-featured program free of "nag" screens and to support the authors who offer these low-cost software alternatives, it is only right to "register" the program by paying the author's registration fee. Shareware programs can cost tens or even hundreds of times less than comparable commercial software. |
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Diagramming
Look! On your computer screen -- it's a CAD, it's a DTP, no, it's a diagramming program! With the drawing and layering tools of CAD programs, plus the scale ruler interface look of a desktop publishing program, diagramming software was designed for making flowcharts, heiarchial charts, network diagrams, etc. Diagramming software combines the power of CAD and DTP software yet simplifies the process to make creating charts and diagrams almost as easy as using a word processor. With a diagramming program you can be productive without having to spend a lot of time and money learning complex CAD concepts that, in many diagramming and charting cases, would never be used. So the next time you need a flowchart to write that computer program or a diagram of your company's network to trace a wiring connection, don't turn to your engineering drafter to make it on their CAD program. Do it yourself with a diagramming program. |
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EDGE Diagrammer 3.0b Copyright © 1999 Pacestar Software A diagramming program similar to Visio. It features a scalable WYSIWYG drawing window with horizontal/vertical rulers, 5 symbol galleries, 42 clipart images, 11 templates, snap-to grid with auto-attach, flip/rotate symbols/text, export in WMF, EMF, BMP, JPG formats, create backup files, autosave, line and text styles options, horizontal/vertical alignment, curvature, arrows, link figures to documents, move object in front or behind other objects, multiple figure align/size, size object to text, on-line help, and much more. EDGE Diagrammer runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000 Professional and later. Total install size: 9.7MB |
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Productivity
In the 1990's, commercial productivity software was expensive -- sometimes costing US$500.00 or more. Shareware productivity software offered a much less expensive alternative. |
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Almanac for Windows 3.5b Copyright © 1994 Leonard A. Gray Made for use on Windows NT 3.5 or later, Almanac for Windows is a personal information manager (PIM) featuring day/month/year calendar, hourly scheduler, to-do list, notes, and phone book.Other features include CSV import/export, print to Metafile, calendar overlays, clock time/date/day display in minimized icon, audio alarms with 3 different tones, wallpaper options, QuickEdit, search, reset desk, toolbar button mouse-over tips, on-line help and more. The registration fee was US$39.95. Total install size: 704K |
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Screen Saver
Screen savers were originally designed to prevent screen "burn-in" -- the result of the same or similar displays "burning" their image into the inner phosphorous lining of a CRT monitor. A CRT monitor can be ruined in 72 hours with an idle screen displayed continually. This is why you will find used CRT monitors with patterns of spreadsheets and other programs "burned" into their picture tubes. This can also happen to "new" monitors. While the best screen saver is one that "blanks" the screen, it is not as entertaining as one that displays something while at the same time "saving" the screen from damage. It also does not earn as much money. Hence, a market was created filled with screen savers flashing displays and some also adding sound to make them a multimedia experience. But if a screen saver has to hold your attention is it still a screen saver, or has it become an entertainment program? In the early to mid-1990's, the graphical environment of Windows brought a boom of commercial screen saver programs. They were often relatively expensive with some costing upwards of US$80.00. Shareware Windows screen saver programs offered a less expensive alternative. |
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Copyright © 1993 Pocket-Sized Software A very rare find these days, this is a collection of seven screen savers for Windows NT 3.1. From a clock display moving horizontally across the screen each second (and updating the time) to a display of multi-colored "dancing lines" to Spirograph-like "hypercycloids" to cellular "life" sliming on the screen to colored line "snakes" slithering to and fro to croquet-style, multi-sized, colored "balls" popping onto the screen to a scene of your current screen "zooming" in and out, these screen savers are sure to brighten up your NT sessions. Total install size: 215K |
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Utility -- Disk
Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0 did not come with a disk defragmentation utility. This left the task to third-party software vendors. Very few defragmentation utilities were created for early versions of Windows NT. |
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Diskeeper Lite 1.1.127 Copyright © 1996 Executive Software International., Inc. Another rare find, this is one of the earliest shareware versions of Diskeeper. It is based on Diskeeper 2.0 Workstation and runs on Windows NT 4.0. Features options for evaluating the amount of file fragmentation, and the ability to defragment both NTFS and FAT partitions. Its unique disk "map" shows the defragmentation process unfold as a series of thin lines converging together. Microsoft licensed versions of Diskeeper and incorporated it into the Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating system families as their System Tools Disk Defragmenter. Total install size: 3.41MB |
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Utility -- File Manager
From the mid-1980's to the early 1990's, it seemed every programmer and their gerbil were writing DOS-based file manager programs. Some of the most famous DOS file managers were Norton Commander, PathMinder, Q-DOS, XTree, and the file managers in PC Tools and Norton Desktop -- the only DOS file managers to offer true drag-and-drop ease of use. In the early to mid-1990's, the only commercial Windows 3.x file manager was XTreeGold 4.0 for Windows by Central Point Software. In 1995, Symantec, after "merging" with Central Point Software (and eliminating CPS's product line), was the first commercial software company to offer a 32-bit Windows file manager -- Norton Navigator 95 which is a 32-bit reincarnation of the former Central Point Software XTreeGold 4.0 for Windows 3.1x. Unfortunately, it is optimized for 32-bit, DOS-based Windows 95 and does not run on Windows NT/2000 Professional. The only other commercial 32-bit file manager created for Windows 9x/Me/2000 was a product called PowerDesk by Ontrack Data International, later sold to V Communications. From 1996 on, PowerDesk was one of the last commercial file managers available for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000. A scaled-down freeware version was offered to entice you to buy the full commercial version. |
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PowerDesk 4.0.12.0 Copyright © 2000 Ontrack Data International PowerDesk is a 32-bit file manager that can run on Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. It features copy/move/delete/drag-and-drop file/folder management, built-in zip/unzip, view contents of ARC, ARJ, ARK, CAB, GZ, LZH/LHA, TAR, TAZ, TGZ, PAK, PWC, RAR, Z, ZOO archives, print tree/file pane, undo, destroy (file wipe), encryption/decryption (non-DES), file association/date-time editing, customizable toolbar, Drivebar, customizable Launchbar, file viewer pane, command line, favorites menu, compare folders, format disk (floppy and hard drives), file attribute and folder filters, copy file name/path as text, drive/folder tree dialogs, show all files on drive, File Finder locates files based on criteria, Dialog Helper displays a history of previously accessed files and folders in Open and Save dialog boxes, on-line help and more. This freeware version has an advertizing "bar" across the bottom of the file manager window with links to Ontrack's website. Total install size: 2.23MB |
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Utility -- Screen Capture
Screen capture programs are helpful for documentation purposes -- illustrating procedures for running programs, capturing error messages in dialog boxes, etc. They are also good for showing what a program or operating system looks like. Many operating systems have their own screen capture utility -- Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000, Macintosh, BeOS, and others. If you only need a quick snapshot of a screen's content, chances are you don't need to use a screen capture utility. But if you need to do specialized screen captures -- showing the cursor, capturing a portion of a screen, or other special need, a screen capture utility works well for these and other tasks. |
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GrabIt Pro 4.1 Copyright © 1994 Software Excellence By Design, Inc. A screen capture utility for Windows NT 3.1. This program lets you make screen shots of any portion of a screen in Windows. The highlighted area is put in the view area in GrabIt's window. You can then save the captured area as a BMP file and/or print the captured area. It also allows copy and paste ability from the clipboard. What is nice about GrabIt is it is very compact and the author does not "force" you to register by imprinting text over the captured images or crippling any of the program's functions. Total install size: 234K |
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20/20 2.23 Copyright © 2000 byLight Technologies. An image viewing, capture, and annotation program for Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000. It features desktop/window/window client/rectangle screen capture, time-delay capture, full area capture of a scrolled window, 38 special effects (motion blur, page curl, spray, super nova, whirlpool, wave, warp, etc.), zoom, rotate, mirror, flip, crop and copy rectangles, rounded rectangles, polygons, ellipses, and/or freehand selected areas, create slide shows with effects and titling, Twain support, split view, full screen view, on-line help, and more. Total install size: 14MB |
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