wr_rmMenu (wr_Removable Media Menu Maker)
Quick Launch Menu for USB drive & other Removable Media
Copyright 2005 Wolfgang Riesterer
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This software package is provided "as-is," without any warranty of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the author or his suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if the author or his suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages by using this software package. Your use of this software package is entirely at your own risk.

You are hereby licensed to use this software package in a non-commercial (home use only) environment. The ownership of this software package remains with the author. No redistribution without prior written permission.

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wr_rmMenu ( Removable Media Menu Maker)
Quick Launch Menu for USB drive & other Removable Media
Please read the license agreement before using this program: The use of this program is entirely at your own risk.

Why wr_rmMenu?
Don’t you wish, you could carry all these small & useful and many times –free- utilities with you, when you are called to a client computer? Many times, it’s too cumbersome to re-install the ones you need right away to fix problems or edit files. This is how this menu system utility came about. Using a removable media (USB drive, memory stick, CD-R, ZIP etc.) menu is tricky because client computers assign different drive letters on occasion depending on how many USB devices are attached.

Observe license & copyright agreements of software titles to be transferred. In some cases, you are required to re-enter your license key after the initial use on a client computer.

Store up to 13 items per page with a maximum of 130 items per wr_rmMenu. Not just programs but any file type or short cut may be set-up: The items, however, must exist on the removable media where you intend to install wr_rmMenu. For CD-R or DVD-R media, you must prepare wr_rmMenu on re-writeable media first (hard drive folder). To navigate through your quick launch menu pages use the VCR style controls at the bottom of the main screen.

Setting up wr_rmMenu is simple: Start up wr_rmMenu from your START MENU structure. On the bottom of the main screen, click HELP -> "Clone & RUN" to install a copy of wr_rmMenu to your USB drive (or other removable media). Next find the target folder of your (removable) media, click OK. Use Windows EXPLORER to find software titles/files to be included in the menu, then click and "Drag&Drop" (wr: "Can’t it be easier?") it from the removable media to the running wr_rmMenu main screen.

If you have an internet connection, you may check for newer versions by
clicking HELP -> "Update?".

To change or remove an item, hover with your mouse pointer over the desired item, then right-click. Edit the title and click OK, or click "REMOVE" to delete the title from the menu system altogether. To better control the order of the displayed software titles, see HELP -> "Edit CFG": After opening the configuration file, you will notice pairs of lines. "Cut & Paste" titles/folders in the desired order, save the *.cfg file, when finished.

To start-up a software tool with a desired data file (software tool itself must provide this feature), "Drag&Drop" (wr: "Can’t it be easier?") a file over the desired tool button. This action is similar to a "visual" right-click "Open with …" feature of the later OS. Rather than opening the displayed file of the menu system, the dropped file will be opened.

Use wr_rmMenu to minimize clutter on your "Windows Quick Launch Bar". Move all desired icons (remember, that software titles have to be stored on the local c:\ drive) over to the wr_rmMenu, effectively replacing all Quick Launch Icons with the wr_rmMenu System. Then just place one shortcut of wr_rmMenu on the Quick Launch Bar.

If you require start-up command line options for the application, you may add them to the wr_rmMenu.cfg, as long as the desired application understands them, and the command line option delimiter a "/" is.

Special Considerations for CD or DVD (or other non-rewrite-able media) menus:
If you intend to use wr_rmMenu on such media, place the executable in the root. Remove all folders, that are before the root folder on your Hd in the corresponding cfg file. The root is, where your target wr_rmMENU.exe exists on your HD. You may open the wr_rmMenu.cfg file with a text editor, and remove all folders that are leading to the project "root" on your hard drive – use the REPLACE command. A sample "autorun.inf" to start up the wr_rmMenu after insertion of your CD/ DVD for AUTOPLAY is included, and must be placed in the root of your CD/DVD.

For example, if you created a project folder "ForMyCD" on your desktop, and prepared this project folder to be copied over to your CD, the fully qualified path may look like this: "c:\Document and Settings\myusername\Desktop\ForMyCD\". This is considered your root since this will end up in the root of your non-rewrite-able media. Of course, this folder structure will not exist on your CD (unless you copy it exactly like that). In the cfg file, remove all occurrences of "\Document and Settings\myusername\Desktop\ForMyCD" in all your items folders references. If you accidentally forgot this step, wr_rmMenu will try to identify the root for you and change references on-the-fly.

Example AUTORUN.INF file for autoplay a wr_rmMenu on your CD:
[autorun]
OPEN=wr_rmMenu.EXE

2005-03-20
Identify the "root" on-the-fly on a DVD/CD after copying a project folder from a HD to CD without removing folder structures before the root references in the from the cfg file.

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