The Auxiliary Utilities category is designed to incorporate many of the miscellaneous winsock and non-winsock related clients for Windows into one area. Included are essential tools like standalone spelling checkers, encoder and decoder clients, encryption software, and Win32 libraries. Utilities that come in handy every now and then are also featured here and include shareware maintenance tools, presentation clients, and similar apps. Additional apps that don't fit into any of the other CWSApps categories are also reviewed in this section -- hence the name Auxiliary Utilities.

	Spell Check
Full Review	Version	3.8b	Date	2/16/97
	Rating		Size	745 KB
Download	ftp://ftp.nextgensoft.com/pub/wcsvb38.exe
Description	Next Generation's excellent spelling checker -- finally on the 'net
Status	Free 30-day evaluation. Shareware - $9
Platforms	Windows 3.x/95/98/NT
Company	Next Generation Software, Inc.
Information	Spell Check Home Page

	Spell Check for Edit Boxes
Full Review	Version	3.00	Date	8/5/95
	Rating		Size	136 KB
Download	ftp://ftp.channel1.com/pub/winsock-l/SpellCheck/spel300e.zip
Description	Spelling checker launchable from an app's edit box
Status	Freeware for non-commercial use
Platforms	Windows 3.x/95/98/NT
Company	Michael Quinion Associates
Information	Spell Check for Edit Boxes Home Page
Notes	Requires a custom dictionary in order to run -- 9 different languages available

Encoders/Decoders

	Wincode
Full Review	Version	2.7.3a	Date	11/30/96
	Rating		Size	998 KB
Download	http://cws.internet.com/programs/wncode.zip
Description	An excellent application for handling all of your encoding/decoding needs
Status	Freeware. (Help file is shareware - $10)
Platforms	Windows 3.x/95/98/NT
Company	Snappy Software

Presentation Programs

	Envoy Viewer
Full Review	Version	Release 7	Date	4/3/96
	Rating		Size	1384 KB
Download	http://www.twcorp.com/ftp/vsetup16.exe
Description	A standalone helper application for viewing Envoy documents
Status	Freeware
Platforms	Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
Company	Tumbleweed Software Corporation
Information	Envoy Viewer page and sample files to check out
Also Available	Envoy Plug-in for Windows 3.x and Windows 95/NT

	ASAP WordPower
Full Review	Version	1.02	Date	6/19/97
	Rating		Size	1447 KB
Download	ftp://208.223.32.15/pub/serif/spcweb/try_asap.exe
Description	A great reports and presentations development tool
Status	Free trial edition. Commercial version - $99
Platforms	Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
Company	Software Publishing Corporation
Information	ASAP WordPower Information
Also Available	ASAP WebShow Plug-in Module

Web Accessories

	URL Grabber 16
Full Review	Version	1.01B	Date	10/3/96
	Rating		Size	1880 KB
Location	http://www.brooknorth.com/download/products/grabber/grabrpak.zip
Description	Stores multible URLs for use with web browsers and other 'net apps
Status	Shareware - $19.95. Crippleware demo - limit of five concurrent URLs
Platforms	Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
Company	Brooklyn North Software Works
Information	About URL Grabber

Windows Libraries

	Win32s OLE-Enabled
Full Review	Version	1.30c	Date	2/24/96
	Rating		Size	2471 KB
Download	http://premium.microsoft.com/download/pw1118.exe
Description	Allows most 32-bit 'net apps to run on Windows 3.x platforms
Status	Freeware
Platforms	Windows 3.x
Company	Microsoft Corporation

	WinG
Full Review	Version	N/A	Date	9/23/94
	Rating		Size	820 KB
Download	ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Multimedia/Jumpstart/WinG/WinG10.zip
Description	Drawing library from Microsoft -- speeds up MPEG viewing
Status	Freeware
Platforms	Windows 3.x
Company	Microsoft Corporation

Byte Information eXchange (BIX) Utility

The following program is only for those 'net users that subscribe to BIX.
If you do use BIX, you should definately check this program out.

	Galahad
Full Review	Version	1.04	Date	1/6/95
	Rating		Size	307 KB
Download	http://cws.internet.com/programs/ghadv104.zip
Description	'Net suite for the Byte Information eXchange
Platforms	Windows 3.x
Author	Jean van Waterschoot
Information	About Galahad

Windows Cleaners

	Cleanup for Windows
Full Review	Version	2.01	Date	4/4/96
	Rating		Size	137 KB
Download	http://cws.internet.com/programs/clw201.zip
Status	Shareware - $29.95
Platforms	Windows 3.x
Description	Removes obsolete and duplicate files
Company	Foley Hi-Tech Systems

Check out our selection of 32-bit Auxiliary Utilities Stroud's CWSApps List

The clients listed above and more are also available from: Internet ProductWatch Papa Winsock-L FTP Site