******** Quick Route Help Guide ********

Contents:

1) Installation

2) Uninstallation

3) The Basics of Quick Route

4) The Options Window

5) Shortcut Properties Window

6) Creating shortcuts
	
7) File Associations

8) Accessing your documents




1. Installation

To install Quick Route double click the file "setup.exe". In the setup window click the 
"Install Quick Route" button. This will bring up a window asking where you would like 
Quick Route to be installed to.
Next, you can type in a directory e.g. "c:\mydirectory", or you can browse your hard drive 
to find the directory you want. It does not matter whether the directory you select exists or 
not, the setup program will create the new directory if necessary.
When browsing through directories, to select a directory to install to click the "Select" 
button or press enter key in the text window.



2. Uninstallation

To uninstall Quick Route, go back to the setup program and then click "Uninstall Quick 
Route" and all the Quick Route files will be removed.



3. The Basics of Quick Route

To operate Quick Route is simple. In the text window of Quick Route to open your files, 
type your file shortcut name and press enter key. This will open your desired file. To open 
your folders, remember to type "dir", then type your directory path or folder shortcut name.
To open web pages and web sites remember to type "web", then type your web shortcut 
name or URL address. 
Using expert technology, for faster access to your documents, you can type a file name of 
a document within your documents folder and Quick Route will open it for you without the 
hassle of directory paths.  

By clicking on the "Options" button, it allows you look at Quick Route commands and what 
they do. You can also view and edit your shortcuts as well. 
The "options" window gives you the option to make new shortcuts and delete existing 
ones. (For further details about creating new shortcuts go to chapter 6) 
You can also edit the wallpaper display of Quick Route to suit the colour of your desktop.
By pressing the up and down arrow keys you can retrive the last 5 shortcuts you entered 
in Quick Route.



4. The Options window

QR Commands list: 
You can use these commands in Quick Route to do different types of actions. If you 
double-click one of the commands it will show you what it does.

File, Folder and Web Shortcuts list: 
These are shortcuts created by you, the user. You can edit these shortcuts by 
double-clicking on the shortcut you want to edit. This will bring up a window of options 
including, "change path of shortcut", "rename shortcut", "delete shortcut" and (for file 
shortcuts only) "password protection". It also shows you the path of the shortcut e.g. 
"c:\paint.exe". 
By clicking the right-mouse button on a shortcut it will bring up a quick menu, where you 
can execute the shortcut and delete it.

Edit File Associations Database: 
This opens the File Associations editor. In here you can change which file extensions are 
opened by a particular program. (For more information on file associations see chapter 
7).



5. Shortcut Properties Window

Path: 
This shows you the file, folder and web page to be opened when the shortcut is executed.

Rename shortcut: 
This enables you to rename your shortcut. To save the new name click on the "save" 
button.

Change Path: 
This enables you to change the path of the file, folder or web page in your shortcut. (See 
chapter 6 about selecting a path.)

Password Protection: 
This option is only available to file shortcuts.
Quick Route contains a good password system. To enable a password click the 
"Password Protection" button. In the Password Protection window click on the "No 
Password" button. This button should then say "Password Protected". Then type your 
password name. Finally, click "Save & Exit" and the password will be enabled. 
When the password is enabled, the password is always required when executing the file 
shortcut in Quick Route and deleting the shortcut. 
It is also required to unlock the password to gain access to changing the file path and to 
rename the shortcut. To stop password protection, click the "Password Protection" button. 
Enter your password. Then in the Password Protection window click "Password 
Protected", this button should then say "No Password" and finally click "Save & Exit".

Lock/Unlock Password: 
This button is only shown when password protection is active. When the shortcut is locked 
by a password, you cannot use the "rename shortcut" and "change file path" options. To 
unlock the password, so as to gain access to the "rename command" and "change file 
path" options, you need to click "Unlock Password". Type in your password and the 
password will unlock. 



6. Creating Shortcuts

All file, folder and web page shortcuts use the same process.

Type in your shortcut name. Type in the path of the file, folder or web page you want to 
use (You can also use browse, for file and folder shortcuts). Then click "Save" to save the 
shortcut.



7) File Associations

When you select a non-executable file to use in one of your file shortcuts or when you 
open your documents in Quick Route, Quick Route looks for the file extension of the file in 
its database.
If the file extension is found, the program associated with the file will open the 
non-executable file. E.g. *.txt files are opened by NotePad.
If the file extension is not found then Quick Route will ask you to associate the file 
extension with a program and then save the extension name in the database.

File Associations Editor: This allows you to edit the file extensions database. On the left 
hand side are where the extension names are kept. On the right side of the window are 
where the programs (to load the file extensions on the left side) are kept. You can change, 
delete and create new lines of file extensions. To save the database click the "Save" 
button.



8) Accessing your documents

This is a most brilliant part of Quick Route. It actually allows you to type in any document 
file name in your documents folder and Quick Route will open it for you. E.g. type in 
"design.doc" and Quick Route will open it. You must remember to specify where your 
documents folder is before typing in your document file names.
You can specify your documents folder by typing in "edit docs" on Quick Route or to the 
Options window and click "Change your documents folder".



If you have any more technical or difficult questions to answer you can e-mail Brand 
Software at: cp.mensan@btinternet.com or call 0181 805 1905.
