= Contents =

  Introduction
  Requirements
  Installation
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


= Introduction =

Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC) is an easy to use program with explorer-like interface which allows you to catalog the drives: floppy disks, hard drives (including network ones), optical disks, CD-ROMs, ZIP disks and other media.

With ADC you are able to:

- Organize volumes, folders and files into categories;
- Add comment to each file, folder and disk;
- Analyse ZIP, ARJ, RAR, CAB, ARC, ACE, LZH and TAR archives;
- Search for files/folders using file name or your own comments (with wildcards), limiting the search results by date, size and category;
- Search for files in archives;
- Update volume information (with saving comments and categories);
- Generate the reports which can be imported from the programs like Microsoft Excel;
- Search for duplicated files;
- Compare catalogued disk with actual (new files, changed files, modified files);
- Import descriptions from files like "file_id.diz", "files.bbs", "descript.ion" etc.;
- Extract description from executable modules (EXE, DLL etc.);
- Extract descriptions from WAV, MP3, WMA and OGG files
- Extract information about audio CDs from Internet CD database (freedb.org);
- Extract descriptions from HTML and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files;
- Extract descriptions from Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio);
- ... and much more.

ADC is written totally in C++, doesn't use any database engines and so very fast. The database generated by ADC is very compact.


= 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 2 megabytes of free space on hard disk


= Installation =

Important! If you've got ADC 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 ADC, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the instructions. You'll need to select the target directory and the components to install.

Note: the Advanced Disk Catalog may not run correctly under Windows 95 (prior to OEM Service Release 2) and Windows NT 4.0 if the new version of common control library (comctl32.dll) is not installed; the program requires version 4.70 or later. The installation program of the Advanced Disk Catalog checks what version do you have, and it'll ask you to update this file if it is old. If it will happen, get the updated version of this file from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie/comctrl.asp


= 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. A lot of people ask us something like "how do I ...", though the complete information is there.
- Visit ADC home page in the Internet at http://www.elcomsoft.com/adc.html. It's a good chance that you'll find the newer version of ADC there.

But if you still have a problem with ADC and noting else helps, please contact technical support at support@elcomsoft.com and inform us about the following:

- Advanced Disk Catalog version (from "About" dialog)
- Advanced Disk Catalog serial number (if you're a registered user)
- where did you get Advanced Disk Catalog (http or ftp site)
- Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP version (including service packs and other fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
- computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
- description of your problem (as much information as possible)

In order to get the complete computer information (working under Windows 9x), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.
