Free Software for Horst Schaeffer's Software Pages

PopSel offers simple pop-up menus to launch programs, documents, web links, Explorer windows, and batch scripts. With PopSel you can reduce the number of icons on your Desktop, or make extensions to the Quick Launch Tray. You can offer a selection of...

Calendar displays a window that can be sized to display up to 12 month (any width or height ratio). The month range can be shifted step by step. Click on month or year caption to select any month or year. The selected date (first button) or the current...

Date Reminder is for recurring or nonrecurring events, like birthdays, bills to pay, or appointments. The date reminder can be run from the Startup folder with an option to show only if there is something to remind you of. The reminders are listed in...

PlayWav simply plays a WAV file without any user interface. The file is passed as command parameter. The program terminates itself. PlayWav is meant for small files. There is no way to stop it. Use in batch files, by drag and drop, thru "open with", as...

TTclock basicaly is an alarm clock software for your PC. TTclock offers two display modes: pure clock display and control panel. In clock display mode the background is either fully transparent only visible on mouse hover, or permanently visible as a...

ShowTx is an auto-sizing plain text viewer that allows editing and saving the text. It is ideal for use in batch processes or as "Send To" application. Special features are customizable through 3-level behavior control defaults in INI file, command...

EnvarList displays a text window with a list of the environment variables, (same as you will get with the SET command at the command prompt). In a program that offers a launcher interface (like a programming editor) you can use EnvarList to see the...

FileDate offers a date picker to change the date (last written/modified). The time (of day) is taken from the original date or time stamp, and remains unchanged. FileDate expects one file as command argument, and is designed as "Send to" tool (in the...

Vdrive detects removable drives like USB flash drives and memory cards, sets the environment variable VDRIVE, and launches an application. Of course, this will only be useful, if the launched application is aware of environment variables. You may have...

PathLen expects a path as parameter, and displays a message box with path information and length. If a directory path is given, the longest path in the structure is reported. Prompt to open the folder (Explorer window), or just an Ok button (by option)....