= Contents =

  Introduction
  Requirements
  Installation
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


= Introduction =

CD Collection (CDC) is designed to help you maintain and organize a collection of your CD-ROMs, hard disks, removable and network drives etc. The program catalogs contents of your media and makes it available for offline browsing and searching.

With CDC you are able to: 

- Get detailed information about every file, folder, or disk even if the disk is inaccessible at the moment; 
- Add comment to each file, folder and disk;
- Analyse ZIP, RAR, CAB, ACE, ARJ, LHA, ARC, LZH, HA, GZIP, JAR, PAK, TAR and ZOO archives, including self-extracting ones;
- Extract any files from archives;
- Search for files or folders using file name or your own comments (with wildcards), limiting the search results by date, size and attributes;
- Extract description from HTML files; 
- Extract descriptions from MP3 files (author, album, genre, etc.); 
- Extract description and version from executable modules (EXE, DLL, ets.); 
- Extract description from text files like "*.txt", "files.bbs", "descript.ion", etc. (customisable); 
- Extract size and color depth from graphics files (BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF); 
- Delete individual files and folders from the catalogs; 
- Exchange your collections with the friends; 
- ... and more. 

= Requirements =

- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
- for Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0: Common control library (comctl32.dll) version 4.70 or later
- about 5 megabytes of free space on hard disk


= Installation =

Important! If you've got CDC not from our web page, but from the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version.

To install CDC, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the instructions.


= History =

See "history.txt" file.


= Registration =

See "order.txt" file.


= Copyright and license =

See "license.txt" file.


= Technical support =

Before you contact us, please do the following: 
 - Be sure that you’re doing everything right. We all make mistakes sometimes... Be attentive. 
 - Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to your question. 
 - Visit CDC home page in the Internet at http://www.nicomsoft.com/cdc/. It’s a good chance that you’ll find the newer version ofCDC there. Always make sure that you are using the latest release of program, or at least check the development history if the issue was already addressed in one of the subsequent releases. 

But if you still have a problem with CD Collection and noting else helps, please contact technical support stuff at support@nicomsoft.com. Please inform us about the following: 
 - CDC version (from About dialog). 
 - CDC registration code or license ID (if you're a registered user) – this will help us to process your request faster. 
 - Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP version (including service packs and other fixes installed), US or international. 
 - Computer information: CPU type and speed, amount of memory installed. 
 - Description of your problem (as much information as possible to retrieve the problem). 

We’ll try to help you as fast as possible, usually in one or two business days.


