Modifying programs
	Even the best programs could be improved slightly...

Paint Shop Pro
	Having read the licence agreement for Paint Shop Pro 3.12, I believe that it is not prohibited to modify it. Click here to see a 21K picture of my modified version, and here to download the changed bitmaps (9502 bytes). I also added a few extra shortcut keys to the functions I use most - Ctrl+B to Blur, F to Fit to Image, and a few more. To do this, double-click on MENU | MAINMENU, navigate through the sample menu to the item you want to add a shortcut to, and select Accelerator key value from the Menu menu, then follow the instructions. To add the new key to the menu text, append it with \t and then the shortcut, eg. &Fit to Image\tF gives . You can use un-shifted shortcuts with Paint Shop Pro as the keyboard isn't used when the menus are active, but in most applications, this would not be possible. And finally, I went through all of the menus, dialogues and string lists and converted them from US to UK English, because I find the American spellings annoying :-)

Ministry of Buttons
	Ministry of Buttons gives you a button for any menu item on a button bar. It's freeware and it's mirrored here. However, the supplied bitmaps to put on the buttons are not very good (they're mostly "borrowed" from Word 6) and they're not editable by conventional means. Therefore, you must edit them yourself with Resource Workshop. The text with it says it is "Public domain/freeware", and that you may not distribute modified versions. This says to me that it's OK to modify it ("public domain" usually means you can do what you like) so long as you don't distribute a modified version. Download this (1575 bytes) The internal bitmap is a whopping 5760x15 pixels, and most image editors have problems with it. Resource Workshop isn't a very good image editor anyway, so I always select all, copy to Paint Shop Pro, save a .bmp, modify, save, then copy back; then I can just open the .bmp for future changes. Paint Shop Pro has problems at magnifications above 5x, but otherwise it's OK. I also modified the button bitmaps so the buttons all have a nice flat Windows/Office look. Note: Ministry of Buttons is a driver, and so, yet again, you have to modify a copy, then copy the copy over the original from DOS, then restart Windows. I went over this in Modifying graphics drivers.