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The system orientiated application ckTool can be used instead of Program Manager. This alternative Windows interface enables common tasks and it can give useful information.

ckTool is slim and consumes only few of RAM/ Resources - It works well on a 386 CPU!

It's philosophy maybe a bit odd cause used via the system menu of the icon or the taskbar button if used in Windows 9x and higher.

ckTool is 1.2 is available in german language and in english. Here you see ckTool in Windows XP.

If you want to have an idea of the program interface you can open the yet german lang helpfile ck-de.hlp to browse in. That includes a simulation of the system menu to learn it. Helpfile in english is available soon! If you want to read the Documentation file from which the english help will be build klick CK-EN.RTF

You have to know: ckTool does perfect with Windows 3.1 good also with Windows 9x and Me are working fine but not very well with the NT-Branch of Windows, because it needs administrator rights to work! So Vista can't be good supported even if x32. In Windows x64 Microsoft took out the support of 16-Bit.
One is important before you test ckTool: Make sure you have a copy of CTL3D.DLL either in the directory where ckTool is installed or in your WindowsSystemDirectory - see in Windows 3.1 and 9x in C:\Windows\system, Windows NT uses C:\WINNT\System32, WinXP and higher are using the C:\Windows\System32 directory. In the file ck.7z below you can find the dynamic link library by Microsoft - they allow to ship it with own programs.

The downloadable archive ck.7z contains the actual ckTool without an installer. The files from the downloadpage at my german language site ../../personal/index.html maybe not loadable in 16Bit or they contain older versions, also the personal site contain the german language versions. Some downloads include the sourcecode.


Back to parent page. ChrisKuhli made this page at 14. April 2008.