Adobe TypeAlign is a tool for modifying the shape of text. You can use this to produce various visual effects such as warping or twisting. You can then export the results to vector files that you can import in to numerous other applications.

A task manager replacement for Windows 3.1.

AdvanceLink is a terminal emulator that integrates with the HP NewWave desktop. It has built in scripting tools and features specifically for communicating with HP 3000, HP 9000, and HP 1000 hosts. It can emulate HP 2392A, HP 700/94, HP 700/92, HP ANSI, and DEC VT100 terminals. It appears a lesser version of this product was bundled with early Vectra computers under the generic name of "HP Terminal Program"

After Dark, from Berkeley Systems, Inc, is a set of entertaining screen savers for Mac and Windows. After Dark for Windows started off as "Magic Screen Saver" for Windows 2.x. After Dark was most famous for its "Flying Toasters" screen saver. Afterdark was very popular on both the early Macintosh computers and Windows 3.0, as neither included any kind of screen saver or screen blanker that would help prevent screen burn-in.

Aladdin Expander is the Microsoft Windows port of Stuffit Expander, a tool for decompressing Macintosh SIT files. It is important to note that it is of limited use on Windows, as the Windows version will not preserve Macintosh resource forks or creator type information, rendering many file types unusable.

IntelliDraw is a shape based vector illustration tool that enables you to dynamically control shapes using numeric, rule based, or relationship based parameters.

Aldus PhotoStyler, developed by Ulead and acquired by Aldus, was an easy-to use photo image editor intended to compete with PhotoShop. The product was dropped when Adobe acquired Aldus.

Aldus TouchBase is a simple Rolodex-like contact manager for Microsoft Windows. Supports printing cards, labels, and envelopes. There was also a Macintosh version.

Type Twister is a font tool that adds multiple effects to fonts, that a user may then copy as a bit map in to other applications. involved with Instant Artist, which features similar font effects.

Atech AllType is a Windows 3.x program that converts scalable fonts files from one format to another. It competed against Ares Software's Fontmonger.

America Online was a proprietary dial-up online service that eventually grew to offerer Internet access. In the mid 1990s AOL was very heavily promoted. Every month or two, you were sure to get a free AOL floppy disk or CD-ROM in the mail. AOL originated as PC-Link.

Houghton Mifflin American Heritage Electronic Dictionary is a resident background program that gives you instant searchable access to an entire dictionary.

Ami is a word processor for Microsoft Windows 2. Ami was one of the first commercial word processor for Microsoft Windows, introduced about a year prior to Microsoft Word for Windows. SAMNA was bought by Lotus, where it became Lotus Ami Pro.

Ami Pro, also called just Ami initially, was a word processor sold by Samna and later Lotus Software, where it became Lotus Word Pro. Ami was one of the first word processors for Microsoft Windows, beating MS Word by about a year. Other early Windows word processors included NBI Legend and WinText

The Amish System Utilities for Windows is a set of tools that adds multiple desktops and a "Start"-like desktop launcher menu to Windows 3.0 and 3.1.

Animation Works, from Gold Disk, is an easy to use business presentation 2d animation program for Windows that can animate with graphics, text, and sound. There was also a version for Macintosh. Animation Works was based on Gold Disk's "Movie Setter" for the Amiga. It includes a background and cel editor, and features an "onion skin" animation mode to show differences between frames.

AnyTime, from Individual Software, is a personal information manager that helps you keep track of day-to-day appointments, events, and to-do items. You can keep a list of family, friends, and business contacts using the Address Book.

AOL Instant Messenger is a once-popular messaging client popularized by America Online.

AOL Press 2.0 is a Windows based what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor from AOL. It competed with other HTML Cuisinarts such as Microsoft Front Page.

ARCserve, from Cheyenne Software Inc., is an enterprise grade network backup software tool. Rather than just backing up one server, it is designed with the ability to back up other servers and workstations over the network. It can also be used for Disaster recovery, to restore an entire system rather than just data files.

ArcView, from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ERSI) is an easy-to-use geographical information system program for Win9x/NT that was intended to bring GIS visualization and querying to people who were not GIS specialists. It was intended to suppliment, but not replace ERSI's earlier ARC/INFO. It featured displaying geographical data, and vendor-based graphics. The functionality of ArcView and ARC/INFO were later merged in to ArcGIS.

This server utility places and manages limits on the content size of network shares under Windows NT 4. Great for keeping users from hogging the entire file server!

ArkoseWorks, previously WordPerfect Works/PerfectWorks, was a short lived Windows office-productivity suite. It was essentially a rebranded continuation of Novell PerfectWorks 3.0. Novell had sold PerfectWorks to Arkose Software, which released version 3.0 under the ArkoseWorks name.

Artemis Presents! is a rudimentary graphics editor and charting tool. It was bundled with and integrated with other applications from Lucas Management Systems.

Arts & Letters, from Computer Support Corporation, is an easy to use line based illustration package. It competed against Corel Draw, and Micrografx Designer. Features include multitasking, rotation, different viewing levels, shading, color, and image combining. It later repositioned itself as a sign/banner type program like the Print Shop.