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Lovely Folders 4.0                   * README FILE *                     Nov 11, 2007
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http://www.lovelysoft.com/                                        info@lovelysoft.com
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Make your folders different. Make them lovely.™


Contents of README.txt
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1. Description
2. Languages
3. Purchase
4. Contact information
5. Copyright
6. Lovelysoft other products


1. Description
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Lovely Folders is a powerful utility to customize your Windows folders. Using this
handy program you can replace the standard folder icon for individual folders with any
eye-catching icon you wish, chosen from hundreds of built-in colorful icons or
generated automatically by internal IconConverter depending on the content of a folder
(music, video, images, etc.). Moreover, Lovely Folders can change folder background!
Your individual folders now may have a background image - just like your desktop.

Find out more Lovely Folders features that allows you to give your folders a unique look.

Lovely Folders allows you to:

* Apply different icons to individual folders in a few mouse clicks
* [NEW!] Put any picture as a wallpaper to a folder
* Set an info tip for a folder
* [NEW!] Replace the system-defined standard folder icon, which is used by Windows
  to display each folder on your computer
* Extract icons from icon files (ICO), icon libraries (ICL) and icon resources
  (EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.)
* Search for icons on your computer
* Copy icon to the current folder to make your folder icons independent from icon
  source files (that allows you to move or copy your customized folders anywhere even
  to another computer! Your folders will be the look exactly as you specified)
* Rebuild the system icon cache to repair incorrect icon images
* Add your favorite icons to the user icon list to access them faster
* Create a template to make doing multiple identical changes of folder's appearance
  easier
* Extract all icons from the application associated with the specified type of files

Powerful features:

* Lovely Folders automatically determines the content of a folder and recommends the most
  suitable icons for this folder
* LovelyConverter™ -- built-in icon converter -- simple and fast way to generate
  folder-look icons
* Supports ALL sizes (up to 128x128) and ALL color depths (mono, 16 colors, 256 colors,
  True-color and Windows XP 32-bit with alpha channel) of the icons
* Supports the following icon resources formats: Icon files (ICO), Icon Libraries (ICL),
  Icon Resources (EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.) 
* Supports JPEG, GIF images and bitmaps (BMP) as folder background
* [NEW!]Lovely Folders includes 3 icon packs with the highest quality icons (including
  Windows® Vista® color folder icons)
* All icons are sorted by categories, and when you select a category, Lovely Folders
  automatically displays specified icons. Moreover, Lovely Folders can scan your system
  and add ALL icons associated with the selected category to the list of icons
* Full integration with Windows Explorer (you can launch Lovely Folders using right-click
  popup menu)
* Supports drag-and-drop (you can drag any file or a folder into the "Change icon"
  window)
* Multilingual interface (20 languages included. The list of languages follows below)
* Easy to use
* Vista-like convenient and friendly interface

The following PC operating systems are supported by Lovely Folders:

* Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 2003 / 2000 / ME / 9x / NT

  Note: best results you'll get when running on Windows XP


2. Languages
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Lovely Folders 4.0 default interface language is English. However, you can replace it
with your native language. Lovely Folders will choose the language automatically during
installation.

The following languages are included by default:

* English (US)
* Arabic
* Brazilian Portuguese
* Croatian
* Czech
* Danish
* Dutch
* French
* German
* Hebrew
* Italian
* Korean
* Polish     
* Portuguese
* Russian
* Serbian    
* Simplified Chinese
* Spanish
* Traditional Chinese
* Turkish 

Additional language files are available here:
http://www.lovelysoft.com/lovelyfolders/languages.shtml

If you could not find a file with your native language, you can translate Lovely
Folders 4.0 by yourself into your own language and GET A FREE REGISTRATION KEY.

How to translate the program:

* Go to the folder where Lovely Folders 4.0 is installed (usually,
  C:\Program Files\Lovely Folders) and open file "0409.lng" in any text editor
  (for example: Notepad)
* Replace all English strings, located on the right of "=" character, with strings
  in your language
* Fill the [FileInfo] section of this file with the name of your language and your name.
  For example:
  Name=Italian (Italiano)
  Translation=User [user@server.com]
* Save this file with the name of your language and extension "lng" (for example:
  italian.lng)
* Send this file via e-mail to the address translate@lovelysoft.com and you will receive
  your registration key


3. Purchase
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Lovely Folders 4.0 is free to try. You can freely use it on your computer during trial
period for evaluation. This method allows you to try our product before you purchase it.
There are some limitations with the unregistered copy of Lovely Folders.

With the unregistered version of Lovely Folders:

* You only can use it during 7-day trial period
* You cannot change folder info tip

After trial period you must remove Lovely Folders 4.0 from your computer or you can
register your copy of Lovely Folders for a small fee and become the registered user.

Advantages of registration:

* You can use Lovely Folders for unlimited time - not only for a 7-day trial
* You can change folder info tip
* Full individual support: during 12-24 hours you will receive answers to all your
  questions
* Free upgrades within 2 years from the date of this release are included!

Please visit our online order area to find out more information about registration
and current pricing:

http://www.lovelysoft.com/purchase/


4. Contact information
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If you have some questions or any problems, or you would like to report bugs, grammar
mistakes (for non-English languages), or give your opinion about the program feel free
to contact us. Any comments are welcome.

Post your questions online here:

http://www.lovelysoft.com/support

As an alternative method, you may contact us via e-mail by the following addresses:

support@lovelysoft.com		Common support questions
translate@lovelysoft.com	Translation into other languages
report@lovelysoft.com		Report a bug in the program
info@lovelysoft.com		General questions


5. Copyright
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This computer program is protected by the copyright laws and international treaties.
Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may
result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum
extent possible under the law.

Read license.txt for LICENSE AGREEMENT.

Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Lovelysoft. All rights reserved
http://www.lovelysoft.com/


9. Lovelysoft other products
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/ InTouch Lock /

InTouch Lock is an award-winning, versatile and comprehensive security solution for
home users and system administrators alike to restrict access to the PC and sensitive
information on it. This password-protected security utility allows you to block access
to files, folders, disks, applications, Web content (adult or unwanted), Control Panel
modules, Internet Explorer parameters, Desktop, Start menu and much more. Multi-user
and multi-profile support. Built-in scheduler. Event logging. Stealth-mode support.
Multilingual convenient and friendly interface.

Find out more information regarding our product InTouch Lock by
following this link:

http://www.lovelysoft.com/intouchlock/


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THANK YOU FOR USING LOVELY FOLDERS!