= Contents =

  Introduction
  Requirements
  Installation
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


= Introduction =

Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC) is an award-winning easy-to-use 32-bit cataloguing program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP and 2003. Its Explorer-like interface allows for convenient cataloguing of data on various media types, e.g., hard disk drives (even via networks), floppy diskettes, optical disc, ZIP and JAZ disks, and so forth.

ADC allows you to carry out the following:

- ADC has a convenient and easy to use user interface;
- organise volumes, folders, and files into categories;
- add comments to each file, folder, and disk etc;
- browse inside ZIP, ARJ, RAR, CAB, ARC, ACE, LZH, TAR and JAR archives, including non-self-extracting and self-extracting archives;
- import descriptions from files, e.g., files.bbs, index.txt, description etc – customisable;
- extract descriptions from archives files, e.g., file_id.diz;
- extract descriptions from executable modules, e.g., .exe, .dll, etc;
- extract descriptions from WAV, MP3, WMA, and OGG Vorbis files, e.g., ID3 tags etc;
- extract information about audio CDs from freedb.org, an Internet CD database;
- extract descriptions from HTML and Adobe Acrobat PDF files;
- extract descriptions from Microsoft Office files, e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio;
- search for files, folder, disc or disks using filename, file path or personal comments, e.g., wildcards or confining search parameters by date, size, and category;
- search for files within archives;
- update volume information including network volumes, e.g., augmenting previous comments, and categories;
- compare catalogues for variations, e.g., new or deleted files, altered files etc;
- generate customisable and exportable reports, e.g., MS Excel;
- search for duplicate files;
- delete folders or files from a catalogue;
- hide files in a catalogue, and much more;
- unlimited number of ADC databases (.cat) and its automated duplicate (.bak) can be created;
- databases and categories can be merged or exported into one of four currently supported external formats e.g., CSV-files (comma-separated values) for MS Excel, DBF-files for MS Access or any DBF-compatible software, SQL-files for MS SQL or My SQL database (for web publishing), and XML-files – (common HTML extension files format).


Due to the fact that ADC does not make use of a database engine, the core of ADC’s versatility, results in it being extremely fast and 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.
