L4T4 Windows 3.1 (for Windows 95, see below) ------------ To set up Money & Banks to run from Windows 3.1 Program Manager, first install the program normally from DOS or within a full DOS window. Next, make the desired Program Group in which you wish to place M&B the current group (that is, click on the Title Bar of the group to highlight it as the current one). From the File Menu, select New. Then select Program Item. Choose OK. Type in "Money & Banks" as the Description line. For the Command Line, enter the drive, directory, and name of the M&B executable filename; i.e., C:\MONEY\MONEY.EXE if you have installed to the C: drive and in the default directory name suggested by the M&B Installation program. For the Working Directory, indicate the above directory: C:\MONEY (Additional directories that you may set up for Money & Banks should have their own individual program items created so that you may specify the different directories as the appropriate Working Directory.) You may skip the Shortcut Key designation and the Run Minimized check box. Click on the Change Icon button. You may receive a message that no icon is available; if so, click on OK and when the Change Icon dialog box appears, click on Browse. Select the drive (i.e., C: indicated above) on which you installed Money & Banks, select the appropriate directory (i.e., \MONEY in the example above), and select: M&B.ICO as the icon file desired. Click on OK. In the Change Icon box, click on OK. In the original Program Item Properties box, click on OK. The Program Group item for M&B will be created. To launch the program from Windows, you need only double-click on the M&B icon. Make sure you are running M&B in a full MS-DOS screen; it will not run in an MS-DOS window. This setting is made in your _DEFAULT.PIF file (in the Windows directory) with the PIF File Editor. To start the PIF Editor, open the Main program group and double-click on the PIF Editor icon. When the PIF Editor window is open, select the File menu, then Open. Choose the _DEFAULT.PIF file in the Windows directory. Click on OK to open the file in the Editor. Select Full Screen under Display Usage if it is not already selected. Click on the check box for Close Window on Exit to place an X in that box if it does not yet contain one. Generally, you may leave the Video Memory setting set on Text and all other settings are left alone as they originally appeared. Click on the File menu, then select Save. You may then close out the PIF Editor. (Please note that the Display Usage setting is only applicable in 386 Enhanced mode and the instructions in this paragraph are only applicable to Windows 3.1.) Windows 95 ----------- Money & Banks has been fully tested by RCCO Research to run under Windows 95. Many users will note immediate benefits in terms of the program's execution speed and smoothness of the video screens, particularly if you are running Windows 95 on a Pentium (or 80486) system. To set up Money & Banks to run in Windows 95, first install the program normally from a full MS-DOS window. (See the Readme.txt file for instructions in running Install.exe from MS-DOS.) You must observe MS-DOS filenaming conventions when naming a directory (folder) in which M&B will be installed (most users will accept the suggested default, C:\MONEY); that is, the directory/folder name must be eight characters or less with no spaces or other characters not allowable under traditional MS-DOS naming conventions. Please note that when you begin naming your bank account tables in the program itself, this naming convention must be followed with those filenames as well. When reading the M&B online documentation, you may wish to mentally substitute the word "folder" whenever "directory" is mentioned. In Windows 95, to add this program to your Start Menu: 1. Click on Start. 2. Move the mouse pointer up to Settings. 3. Click on Taskbar... 4. Select the 'Start Menu Programs' tab. 5. Click on Add. 6. Click on Browse, then navigate to the application's executable file, MONEY.EXE, by first double-clicking to the folder or sub-folder in which it exists. Select MONEY.EXE. Click on Open. 7. Now the Command line shows the path to the MONEY executable file. Click on Next. 8. Choose a folder in which the shortcut to the program will appear (or select New Folder if one is desired). 9. Click on Next. 10. At the prompt 'Select a name for the shortcut,' type in "Money and Banks." 11. Click on Finish. This returns you to the Taskbar Properties window. 12. Under the Advanced Settings you will have to specify that this program is to run in a FULL MS-DOS SCREEN. Money & Banks will not run in an MS-DOS window. Advanced Settings (on the Taskbar Properties window): A. Click on Advanced. B. Click on the plus sign (+) to open the Programs folder. C. Click on the folder containing the new shortcut to Money & Banks. D. RIGHT-click on the shortcut itself. Select Properties. Click on the Program tab, then click on the "Close on exit" box to place a check mark there. Click on Change Icon..., then click on Browse... Navigate to the MONEY folder. Select the M&B.ICO file. Click on Open. In the Change Icon window, click on OK. Next, click on the Screen tab. Click on Full-Screen under Usage. Click on Apply at the bottom of the window. Click on OK. E. Close out the Exploring window. 13. When you return to the Taskbar Properties window for the final time, click on OK. RCCO Research