A: I wrote a handful of tutorials (more on the way). You can start here, and at the end of it it'll have a link to the second tutorial. After that, read the Documentation!

A: The EXE file you run in Windows is just a wrapper executable for the ActiveState Perl library, written by me. it looks in the same directory as it is located in for a file called "urltoys", and executes the Perl code inside. That's right, the Perl code is still sitting there on your drive. If you were feeling saucy, you could always open that file in Wordpad and modify how URLToys thinks... that is, if you know Perl.

This also means that if small changes are made to the script, you only need to download the "Latest URLToys" from the site and replace this text file with it. If you do this and URLToys blows up on startup, however, just download the latest Windows Installer.

A: It's a command line based utility. I'm toying around with the idea of an IE plugin that'll make it "brainless", but trust me, it won't have the true power of URLToys in this form. If you are willing to give this program a few minutes of your time (reading the tutorials and this FAQ), you won't regret it.

A: Technically, the "real" place it is kept is in the ".urltoys" directory inside of your "HOME". For Unix users, you are already aware of your HOME. It's usually something like "/home/joe", making the place for your config file and custom scripts "/home/joe/.urltoys".

For Windows users it's a little trickier. Windows has no concept of "HOME" by default, so URLToys places its ".urltoys" directory in the root of the drive it was installed on (such as C:\.urltoys). This folder is -NOT- created unless you save the config, by typing in config save at the URLToys prompt. Typing this in will make that folder exist, and then you can fill it in with whatever you want.

If you don't like directories in your root being created, you can move where your "HOME" is. You need to set the "Environment Variable" called "HOME" to a folder location. This is usually located (in NT/2000/XP) inside of the Advanced tab of the System Control Panel. You just add a "New" variable named "HOME", and then set it to something like "c:\documents and settings\joe", or whereever you'd like .urltoys to be created. Once this is set, open URLToys up again and do a config save.

A: Short answer: del . (The word "del" followed by a space, then a period)

Long answer: To clear out the list, you just have to either "include nothing" or "exclude everything", using either keep or del. Typing in something like "del ." will remove everything because the period will match any single character. I suppose typing in "keep slkdjfslkjsldkjfsldjjsf" will remove all of the URLs in the list as well. :-)

A: There's a good chance this problem appears because you have your HOME variable set to some directory with a space somewhere in it. If you have set your HOME to "c:\Documents and Settings\coolguy", please change it to "C:\docume~1\coolguy" and see if that fixes it.

A: Click on the upper left corner of the window, and you'll see an "Edit" choice in the menu. Paste should be in the sub menu for that. The better choice (in my opinion) is to choose Properties in that same menu, then check the "QuickEdit" checkbox. Once that is on (Save it for future use when it asks), a simple right-click in the window will paste.