what would you get if you merged the following apps

software that can merge .exe files and leave the originals in tact

You'll have to live with three different applications or find an existing fourth one that does all you want and need.

Kees

You can't simply merge multiple programs into one...that's not the way it works. If you'd want to combine three good programs into one great program, you'd have to:

1.) Obtain the source code from the original authors, along with permission to modify it for your own personal use. I can tell you right now that that will never happen with any of the companies you're referencing.

2.) Hope and pray that all of the programs were written in the same language. Otherwise you'd be looking at a total rewrite. (I doubt you'll be that lucky.)

3.) Create a new GUI that all of this is centered upon. If nothing else, start with the GUI for the most complicated program, then add onto it support for the others. (Not too bad.)

4.) Copy and paste the code from the projects into a single project, doing hefty modifications so that it 'fits together.' (It's taken hundreds of trained professionals to write those individual programs. You're not just going to walk in and combine them all into a single, fully-functional, issue-free program toot sweet.)

In short, you'd have to be extremely manipulative, knowledgeable, and lucky...and it just won't happen.

John

i suppose that someday somwonw will think to do this but for now i can't so
oh well