IMPORTANT - Read Before Upgrading!

If you have been running a previous release of MetroTools (even a pre-release of 2.1), please read this document BEFORE installing MetroTools 2.1.

NiteLite at the Login Window

If you have installed the NiteLite screen saver to run during the Login Window, you MUST de-install it PRIOR to performing the upgrade to MetroTools 2.1. You must do this even if you were running a pre-release of MetroTools 2.1. The new version uses a different technique for launching NiteLite during the Login Window and the previous version MUST be de-installed using a 2.0 or pre-release 2.1 version of MetroTools by logging in as root and using the Administration tool to remove the MetroTools Daemon. In version 2.1, there is no longer a daemon.

User Preference Settings - for network users only

Version 2.1 now creates its user preference settings in such a way that the same network user account can be used on both NeXT and NEXTSTEP for Intel computers without problems. Since previous versions didn't have this ability, you must first run version 2.1 on the same kind of computer that you ran previous releases on. Your preference settings will be converted to the new format, and thereafter you can log onto either NeXT or Intel machines from the same network user account. NiteLite settings are not saved from previous versions, and each user will have No Module selected when they first run 2.1.