========================================= MICROSOFT BOOKSHELF 1992 FOR WINDOWS ------------------------------------ Multimedia is a new technology, and the new combinations of hardware and software can present a variety of potential performance and configuration problems. This file contains the following information: o Tips for correcting sound problems, for improving the speed of your computer, and for improving print quality from Bookshelf. o Information about the integration of Bookshelf and Word for Windows. TROUBLESHOOTING ----------------- Correcting Sound Problems ---------------------------- If you don't hear anything when you play animations or pronunciations, make sure that: o you have a sound card installed. o you have a speaker hooked up to the jack on your sound card (not to the CD-ROM drive). o the volume is set to an audible level. You can test sounds with the Sound option in the Windows Control Panel. If you hear no sound when testing sounds, open the Drivers option to check the sound driver files. These drivers must be compatible with your sound board. Make sure that drivers for both wave files and MIDI files are displayed in the Drivers dialog box. If necessary, set up your sound board again. If you still can't hear sounds, call the sound board manufacturer to verify that you are using the correct drivers and that there are no hardware conflicts. If you have installed Windows 3.1 and can play pronunciations but not musical examples, you may need to change your MIDI map. During the installation of Windows 3.1, Setup renames the MIDIMAP.CFG file to MIDIMAP.OLD and installs a new MIDIMAP.CFG file. If your original MIDIMAP.CFG file contains custom setups that use sound drivers not provided by Windows, you can change the port settings using the MIDI Mapper option in the Control Panel, or you can use your original file by performing the following steps: 1. Rename MIDIMAP.CFG to MIDIMAP.WIN. 2. Rename MIDIMAP.OLD to MIDIMAP.CFG. Improving Performance ------------------------ Microsoft Bookshelf 1992 for Windows uses a lot of your system memory to display graphics and animations. If you find that Bookshelf runs slowly, consider doing the following to improve your computer's performance: o If your computer is a 386, set up a permanent Windows swap file on your hard drive. See your Windows User's Guide for more information. Windows usually creates a temporary swap file, but if your hard disk is full or fragmented, this temporary file can become unavailable. Make the size of the permanent swap file at least 2048K. o If your computer runs at 20 MHz or slower and you have only 2 MB of RAM, use a 16-color driver for your display, even if you have a 256-color card. To change the display driver, run the Microsoft Windows Setup program from DOS or Windows and select the standard VGA driver. o If you have a 386 with only 2MB of RAM and you encounter out-of-memory errors, or if sound is not continuous and animations are slow, choose About Program Manager from the Help menu in the Program Manager window, and check to see if you're running in Standard mode. If the dialog box shows Windows is using Standard mode, exit and then restart Windows by typing WIN at the DOS prompt. o Run Bookshelf without the SmartDrive device driver. To disable SmartDrive, open the CONFIG.SYS file in Notepad, change the DEVICE=SMARTDRV.SYS line to REM DEVICE=SMARTDRV.SYS, and then save the edited CONFIG.SYS file. o Defragment ("clean up") your hard disk by running a disk defragmentation program. o Make sure that your CD-ROM drive is MPC-compatible (that the drive can transfer data from the CD at 150 KB per second while using less than 40% of the CPU bandwidth AND that the drive has an average seek time of less than one second. Check the documentation that came with your CD-ROM drive. o Add more extended memory to your computer. You can determine how much extended memory is available by typing MEM and pressing Enter at the DOS prompt. You need a minimum of two megabytes of memory to play sounds and run animations. For comprehensive documentation on improving performance, consult your Windows manual. Improving Printing -------------------- If you are not satisfied with Bookshelf's text formatting, you can use the Copy command on the Edit menu to copy the text, then paste it into a word-processing program for formatting and printing. INTEGRATION OF BOOKSHELF AND WORD FOR WINDOWS --------------------------------------------------- During Setup, you will be given the option of installing the feature that integrates Bookshelf and Word for Windows if your system meets the following conditions: o A non-network version of Word for Windows 2.0 is installed. o Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or higher is installed. o Your WIN.INI file contains a [Microsoft Word 2.0] section that includes a programdir={path} line and specifies a valid WINWORD.EXE file. o There is enough space on your hard drive to support this feature. If you install the integration feature, the Setup program modifies NORMAL.DOT, Word's global document template, to customize the Word Toolbar and menus. Changes you have made to the Toolbar, to the default menus, and so on, are preserved. Your original NORMAL.DOT file is saved as NORMAL.WAB. The integration feature also adds three items to Bookshelf: a Send button, a Send command on the Edit menu, and the Word & Bookshelf command on the Bookshelf Help menu. Setup also modifies your WIN.INI file, setting options in the [Microsoft Word 2.0] section and adding a [Bookshelf] section.