LINK CHECKER v0.60 Alpha
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  Author  : Joseph Cox
  Website : http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk
  Forum   : http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/forum
  Released: 20th August, 2005.

Please note that this is a very rough Alpha release
and that there are missing features and even some
partially implemented features. Currently, only
Internet Explorer is supported.


PURPOSE
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The purpose of Link Checker is to go through your
browser's bookmarks and highlight which ones are
out of date. While processing, any site that returns
an error is displayed in the main results list. Press
the Right Mouse Button in the list to display a context
menu that will allow you to delete the selected bookmarks,
among other things.

INSTALLATION
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Simply extract the Link Checker archive to any location
and then double-click on the Link Checker.exe file to run
it.


USAGE
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Run the application and then click on the Scan button. This
will cause Link Checker to scan your favourites and add them
to a temporary in-memory database (this is purged when LC
is exited). Click on the Check button to start the checking
process; this involves LC going through each bookmark and
trying to connect to the site that the bookmark points to. If
any error is encountered during the connection attempt, it
is added to the main list in the LC window.

You can inspect any problematic sites by either using the
context menu or by double-clicking a site to launch it in
your default browser.

The context menu also allows you to delete selected sites;
use Ctrl/Shift to multi-select sites.


TIPS
----


UNINSTALLATION
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Make sure the main Link Checker.exe application isn't running
and just delete the Link Checker directory to remove the
entire program from your system.


TROUBLE-SHOOTING
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If you get an error when you start Link Checker, you will
need to download the Microsoft .NET runtimes package (22MB).
Please beware of wordwrap in the URL:
	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&displaylang=en

In the future, a significant portion of applications written
for Windows will use the .NET runtimes, so it is a good idea
to download it now to save hassle later.

One last thing: an error occurs when clicking on Check for
the second time. Restart the program if for some reason you
need to perform another check.


Joseph Cox


HISTORY
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v0.60 Alpha - 20th August, 2005.
  - First public test release.
