4:03 PM 5/25/96

The Unofficial Star Trek Computer Theme

This is a different kind of Star Trek theme for Windows 95. It was made
totally around the computer featured on Star Trek. The icons are actually
32 X 32 BMP files renamed to ICO files. Using a paint program it is easy
to resize a graphic to the right size. The sound files have been taken
from various sources, but mostly the best web site I've seen for Star Trek
(Thanks to Rob Chen) along with the wallpaper and graphics for the icons,
from Halodeck 3:

	http://www.starbase21.com/holodeck3/


Also, thanks to Jean Gionet and the help he has readily availible about
creating themes. You can find his web page at:

	http://www.cyberbeach.net/~gionet/win95/themes/

To install simply extract all the files to a temorary folder and run the
INSTALL.BAT file. It will place all the files in a folder named Star Trek
Computer. Run the batch and it will show you the parameters. This seems to
be the safest way to install a theme. It also makes it very easy to get
rid of. That is if you feel the need! Just delete the entire folder.

Thanks to: Derek (Lanzer) Liu for the slightly modified "install.bat" file
of which I liberally five fingered the code and modified myself!

Here is a list of files you need for the theme:

	Star Trek Computer.jpg
	Star Trek Computer (High Color).Theme
	*.ico	(All files with the ico suffix)
	*.cur	(All files with the cur suffix)
	*.ani	(All files with the ani suffix)
	*.wav   (All files with the wav suffix)
	Computer new mail.wav

Computer new mail.wav - I use for New Mail Notification. If you
installed Exchange then you should have this sound option. I installed
Exchange and then took it out... It left the sound option behind.
This works with MS Internet Mail & Newsreader beta program that
just came out. For some reason this will not self install in the
theme. You will need to do it manually from the Sounds option in
Control Panel.

Place each icon on your desktop in places that make it look like
they belong there. If your icons snap back to the side, you have
the automatic placement turn on. Simply right click anywhere in a free
area on the desktop and select Arrange Icons/Automatic (if it's
checked). Then arrange the icons the way you want. The file
Internet.ico I have assigned to my web browser. I use MS Internet
Explorer and I used the new Powertoy from Microsoft Tweak UI to turn
off the Explore the Internet icon on my destop. I then made a shortcut
to Internet Explorer on my desktop renamed it and changed the icon
by right clicking it and selecting Poperties/Shortcut/Change Icon.

I have also made Logo screens for startup and shutdown. These will
install also with the batch file and your present logos will be saved
with a bak extension. The startup one (Logo.sys) is  not animated, but
to see how this is done check out Karl McMurdo's web page:

	http://www.nucleus.com/~kmcmurdo/win95logo.html

He has a slew of animated logo screens there and instructions on
how to make your own. I have included info five fingered from his
page that tells you how to install the logo.sys manualy. The text file
is called "Logo Install.txt". To install the other two simply do the same
things to the files Logos.sys and Logow.sys in the Windows folder.

After running Install.bat, or if you copied all the files by hand
because you don't trust me to get them into there proper places
(Hey, I'd be afraid too! But, I have checked this on my computer
and it works for me!) You can setup the theme by going to the
Desktop Themes menu in Control Panel and clicking on the down arrow
next to the Theme box. Scroll down to Star Trek Computer (High Color).Theme
and click it. The Install.bat file will put all the theme stuff in
C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes\Star Trek Computer if you have these folders,
or C:\Windows\Star Trek Computer if you don't. I know that some of you
decided to place Plus! in some other place so this will give you more
flexability. The theme is forgiving and will find where you have setup
your files (at least that has been my experiance). It reads the Windows
settings to find your files in the folders you assigned to Plus! and
Windows. I have changed the wallpaper to a JPEG (and I know this will annoy
some) to keep the Zip file smaller. The last one I made was 2.8 meg!


Also, if any of you coders out there would like to try your hand at a screen
saver... I had this idea of a the computer screen animating...

Look for my ReBoot! theme at:

	http://www.inwap.com/reboot.html

...It was my first. Mine is 'Theme 01'.

If you have any comments or suggestions please email me at:

	SHIndustries@Skantech.com

Enjoy!

Gene W. Michelsen

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