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Where Should I Start?Basic handling for all 12Ghosts. Frequently Asked Questions
Starting GhostsAfter installing 12Ghosts, you will find a shortcut for each installed Ghost in the START menu. Click on the START button, select All Programs, then 12Ghosts, then select the program you wish to start. To make starting and stopping several Ghosts faster, see '12Ghosts Control Tower' below. (If you don't see a "12Ghosts" menu entry in the Programs menu, you may need to run setup again. In the Setup dialog box select "Create shortcuts in START - Programs".)
Where Do I start?Perhaps you are overwhelmed by all the different tools included in the package you installed. First, read the home page of this help for an overview of all included assistents. Click on each icon at the top of the page and scroll through the help page of each Ghost. A good idea is to read the first paragraph on each page, which provides a summary of the features, and decide wether you can make use of some of the features. We recommend to setup the programs one at a time. Once you are accustomed with one program you may go on to the next you are interested in. You will notice the 12Ghosts have a lot in common, for example how to start and stop them, the tray icon, or the 'General' tab of startup options. Of course you don't have to use all of them! Probably nobody can use all tools included in the 12Ghosts™ package (except maybe the authors of this help file). Our feedback shows that using two or three Ghosts is a good average.
HelpEach Ghost provides essential context help to explain each option and drop-down in a dialog box. To open this context help just hover with the mouse cursor over the control for about one second. You may set this pop-up time in General Options to anything between immediately and never. At the beginning, 0.2 seconds are helpful. Later you may want to set it to 2 or 3 seconds to get it out of the way. There are several ways to open the context help:
(If you are left-handed you might have switched mouse buttons. In any case, "left" means the "main" mouse button, "right" means the "other" mouse button, throughout this help.) The context help is a separate and additional help to this online help. Online help for each Ghost can be opened by clicking on the 'Help' button in any window, or by selecting the command 'Help' in the right-click menu.
Context MenuTo open the context menu click with the "right" mouse button on a tray icon of any Ghost. This is a fast way to access the most important commands of each Ghost.
12Ghosts Control TowerIf you have the complete 12Ghosts™ package installed you want to try 12-Tower to keep track of all Ghosts. Here you can control, start, stop, and easily access all Ghosts. This control tower displays which Ghosts are installed, and which are currently running. When using 12-Tower, you may do with less tray icons (for example, keep only the tray icons of 12-Backup, 12-ShutDown and 12-Tray, because you need to access them frequently.) In the list of Ghosts just click on an entry to open its settings dialog box. You may even right-click to open its context menu! Click on a green glowing button to turn it off. Note that you may use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select a Ghost. Press ENTER to start the selected Ghost, or END to stop it. Use the option Close after starting a tool if you want to close 12-Tower after starting one Ghost. To override that option you can hold down CTRL. In the Control menu you'll also find the command Context Menu Entries - the central point to add or remove 12-Backup, 12-ShellX, and 12-Zip entries to the context menu of files and folders. (When you right-click on a file or folder in Windows Explorer.) Finaly, you can (re-)start all Ghosts that are automatically started after logon, aka "always-running", or stop all Ghosts at once.
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