Windows Tips & Tricks
Topic:
Copying Cliptures KoolKat catalogs to your hard disk.
Tip:
The Cliptures KoolKat catalogs are designed so that you can use them on the Cliptures CD discs without having to install anything onto your hard disk. You can however copy them to your hard disk if you like, and if you have the space. (Please be aware that some of the catalogs may be over 12MB in size!) The Cliptures-KoolKat catalogs actually have a copy of the color, WMF(High) versions of the images stored in the catalog. If you copy one of the catalogs to your hard disk, you will not have to put the Cliptures CD in your CD drive when you want to use that particular Cliptures volume. (This only applies to the color, WMF(High) version of the Cliptures images.)
Please note: Although this tip works, there are enough variables from computer to computer that we cannot do tech support on this. You're on your own!
To copy a single Cliptures KoolKat catalog to your hard disk:
- Insert a Cliptures CD into your CD drive.
- From the Windows desktop, double-click on the “My Computer’ icon.
- In the “My Computer’ window that opens, double-click the icon for your CD drive.
- In the window that opens up for your CD drive, click one time on the icon for the _KOOLKAT folder so that it is selected.
- From the Edit menu for the CD window, select the Copy command.
- Close the window for the CD.
- In the “My Computer’ window , double click on the icon for your hard disk.
- In the window that opens up for your hard drive, select the Paste command from the Edit menu. This will put a copy of the _KOOLKAT folder on your hard disk.
That's it!
The _KOOLKAT folder has 6 files in it. The Cliptures-KoolKat catalog file is the one named: CLIP00KK.KKC (The actual file will have a volume number like 06, or 31 instead of the "00". For example: The catalog file for Cliptures Volume 33 is CLIP33KK.KKC.) The other files in the folder: CLIPTURE.EXE, CLLNGENU.DLL, CLPROOF.DLL, FMENGINE.DLL, FMOLE.DLL, FMTOOLS.DLL, and FM_KKC.DLL are the "engine" files for the Cliptures-KoolKat catalogs. In order for KoolKat to work, all 6 of the files must remain together in the same folder.
Copying multiple Cliptures KoolKat catalogs to your hard disk:
If you plan on copying more than one Cliptures-KoolKat catalog to your hard disk, you should rename the _KOOLKAT folder for each one after you have copied it to you hard disk, and before you copy the next one. Otherwise, when you do the second one, it will replace the first one. The name doesn't matter as long as you can remember it, and you keep all of the files in the folder together and separate from any other set of catalog files.
Want to set up a Cliptures-KoolKat catalog so you can start it from the Windows Start button? Here's how:
- Click on the Windows Taskbar "Start" button.
- Go to the Settings option and choose Taskbar... .
- Click on the "Start Menu Programs" tab.
- Click on the "Add" button.
- In the "Create Shortcut" window that opens, click on the "Browse" button.
- In the file dialog window that opens, locate the _KOOLKAT folder (of other name if you changed it), and double-click on the folder to open it.
- Click on the CLIPTURE.EXE file name so that it is selected.
- With the CLIPTURE.EXE file name selected, click the "Open" button.
- Back at the "Create Shortcut" window, click on the "Next" button.
- The next window that comes up asks you to "Select Folder to Place Shortcut In:" Click on the "New Folder" button.
- Change the name of the folder to "Cliptures-KoolKat".
- After you have changed the name of the folder, click on the "Next" button.
- The next window that comes up asks you to "Select a Name for the Shortcut:" Type in "Cliptures" and the number for the Cliptures volume you are setting up. (Like "Cliptures 33".
- After you have typed in the name for the Cliptures volume, click on the "Finish" button.
- And finally, back at the "Taskbar Properties" window, click on the "OK" button.
That's it! You now have a "start" item added for the Cliptures volume. Adding a "start" listing for a Cliptures-KoolKat catalog.