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update January 1 2009 McAfee SiteAdvisor threw a little girly fit over Keystroker, so it has been removed...prompting the only change this application has seen for almost 10 years. Hurray, mega-corporate overlords! I might as well mention it now, since I'VE ALREADY BEEN PUT OUT THANK YOU MCAFEE, this little monstrosity was built for Windows 98, and first went into service in February 1999. I made the minimum amount of changes necessary and built a Windows XP compatible version in 2004. This XP version works on all editions of XP and Vista, including 64bit. And now, the original readme.txt file, last update January 2004: Click the Time and Date with the right and left mouse buttons to see the menus. Drag it around by clicking and dragging on the edge. The main program is kclock.exe; all the other executables are called from its menu, although many are stand-alone programs in the kclock folder and can be used separately. There are other executables in the Kclock folder that aren't linked anywhere. They're probably just dumb or don't work very well Top left-click menu items call Windows programs; if you don't have the program installed, nothing will happen. The right-click menu items are included with this program. Most are self-explanatory or include a short help section. Others assume you've installed ESP or some other form of mind-reading software. As you'll guess after using the programs, it's Freeware! It was built with Visual Basic 4, so it needs the standard dll's shipped with Windows and a couple of .ocx files. Some are included; they install into the kclock folder so that they won't interfere with your system files. VB40032.dll is included, and is available as a self-extracting zip file at //www.fiveanddime.net/zips/vb40032.exe This is a perpetual beta test. However, none of your system settings or customizations will be changed. The install program is only so Windows will know where to find it; all the files are copied to a single folder on your disk, even the system files that are normally copied to %system%. This makes a slightly larger program, but if everyone did it, we'd be having a lot less trouble with Windows. Here's a better explanation from the programmer of Arachnophilia: //www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/dll_article.html Use the Windows Add/Remove Programs applet to uninstall. md5sum: The original readme is included as md5sum-original-read-me.txt in the kclock folder for your personal enlightenment. It recommends you put the aamd532.dll file from the kclock folder into your PATH, i.e. c:\windows\system. md5.bas is included in the kclock folder. There's a javascript md5sum at: http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/md5src.html . Keystroker.exe: This program writes window titles and keystrokes to a file named by date in the current directory; i.e. if you didn't change the install defaults and start the key logger on December 25, 2001 it'll write to a file called C:\Program Files\Kclock\12-25-2001 (it uses your computers time format) and is viewable with any text editor. Keystroker won't show on the Ctrl+Alt+Del list. For WinXP, use winhwnd.exe instead of keystroker. winhwnd.exe writes plain text to winhwnd.dll (use Notepad to view it) Makefolder.exe: After the program is installed (default: c:\program files\kclock\), navigate to the folder and click makefolder.exe to add a right-click menu item called 'Make Folder Here' . To remove, use Regedit to delete the key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Make Folder Here The alarm clock doesn't do any error checking and won't work through a reboot, but it will change a semi-colon to a colon. Wow! ********** The shortcut wiz couldn't have been done without Brian Harper...//www.brianharper.demon.co.uk/... What a man! ============ And of course: Brad Martinez(btmtz@msn.com) http://members.aol.com/btmtz/vb I got a lot of ideas and sample code there, and blatantly ripped off his system icon dealy. Way to go, Brad! ============ The calendar is due to the generosity of Joe LeVasseur. If you aren't using Yankee Clipper ( //www.tiac.net/users/lvasseur/ycphome.html ), there's something seriously Wrong with you. ============ The Floppy Wiper is adapted from a program by Kenneth Ives. To quoth th' Readme: ***** Any comments, suggestions, or complaints are welcome, and will qualify you to win a vacation package to the Bahamas! (Winner must pay all expenses and invite me along. Winner is expected to 'put out.') You probably got this from: //www.fiveanddime.net/iconsandcursors.html Here's an interesting bit of reading: //www.arachnoid.com/careware or at least it was in late 1999. -- something or other was last modified Jan 19, 2004 -- "Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!" - Mordak, son of Pitactk the Programmer "Hey! It compiled! Ship it!"" This example program is provided "as is" with no warranty of any kind. It is intended for demonstration purposes only. In particular, it does no error handling. You can use the example in any form, but please mention www.vb-helper.com and the original author Kenneth Ives, kenives@cmpu.net. "For better security, get PGP from MIT or Network Associates. For complete security, burn your computer RIGHT NOW! HURRY!!! THEY'RE COMING!!!!! ============ I got quite a few things from //www.vb-helper.com. In exchange, they wanted a mention in the documentation... ...happy now, sissyboys? A lot of the code samples at vb-helper dot com mention the Rocky Mountain Computer Consulting Co. If you have any idea who they are, give them a big wet one for me, would you? Thanks. ============ The Log function is from www.winmag.com/karen. You should go look at her stuff. Very cool! Her comments from the readme:"(c) 1997, 1999 Karen Kenworthy, All Rights Reserved May be freely redistributed, if no charge is made for the program."It makes a log of the window titles of all open windows in the clock directory; logging stops when the clock is shut down. Selecting 'Stealth Mode' calls the winhwnd.exe file which writes to a text file called winhwnd.dll, which is a regular text file; this enables logging to continue even if the clock is shut down. Note! - No check is made of the log file. It's up to you to delete it before your disk fills up. No window shows up, and it doesn't show in the Ctrl-Alt-Del list(though it does show in a task list), so don't forget about it if you autorun it. Note 2 - Nothing appears to happen when you click it, but resist the temptation to click it again. It won't help. To enable logging at Windows startup, add a shortcut to winhwnd.exe in the Start Menu -> StartUp folder, or better yet, to the Registry (see //www.fiveanddime.net/notes.html for Registry 'help', a.k.a 'Ruining a Perfectly Good Computer for Dummies''). ====================== The password sniffer is the complete and unmodified executable included with the code to make it from Karl Peterson. (It was too cool not to include.) His blurb is included complete and unmodified in the file 'passwordSniffer.txt' in this directory. Thanks, Karl! My name? Um... Bob... ===================== Getting the pixel color under the cursor (ScreenRuler) is adapted from something I found at http://blackbeltvb.com (Matt Hart). I think. I'm pretty sure...Anyway, the site is a very worthwhile visit. ===================== I forgot where I picked up the 'tips' thing (on the Calendar). Edit 'tips.txt' in the kclock directory to add/subtract tips. Each must be on it's own, single line. ==================== makefolder.exe is based on code by Erik Forbes. I don't know who he is or where his web site is, or if he even has one. *****
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