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EscapeE lets you automate tasks by helping you to create special shortcut icons with configuration options that you specify. This is an alternative to using the 'Save' command when setting the configuration options: it makes a copy of the program and while preserving the default settings of the original program and also lets you create several icons that do different tasks.
If you wish to run EscapeE continuously and monitor a particular folder for files with other extensions, you can add the special icon to the Windows StartUp group.
Expert users can set other options from the command line and to do this a special icon can be created manually, with options added to the command line and the icon can then be moved to the StartUp group. See Running EscapeE from the command line.
To create a special shortcut icon
| 1. | With EscapeE running, select Configuration... from the 'Options' menu. |
| 2. | Set any options from the tabbed pages. |
| 3. | Click Shortcut... The commands to carry out the special options are already entered into the 'Arguments' box. |
| 4. | The default setting is to create the icon in the Windows Start menu, as shown in 'Shortcut location'. To change this, select Desktop to create an icon on the desktop, or select Elsewhere and click Browse to select another path.
Every time you run this version of EscapeE the options you select will be used. |
To run EscapeE continuously from startup
With EscapeE running, select Configuration... from the 'Options' menu.
| 1. | In the 'Automatic' menu, set the folder you wish to monitor using wildcards. |
| 2. | Set any other options, e.g. the output format, the time interval to check for. |
| 4. | Select Elsewhere and click Browse. |
| 5. | Locate the Windows Startup folder.
EscapeE will automatically run at startup and monitor the folder you choose. |
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