ThinkPad Essentials May, 1997 ThinkPad Essentials provides IBM Sales Representatives, IBM Resellers and Customers with a variety of ThinkPad evaluation and sales tools. ThinkPad Essentials is produced twice a year by IBM Multimedia Solutions in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. For information about producing a similar tool for your organization, contact ruizi@us.ibm.com. Hardware Requirements: - 486 DX4 75Mhz, or faster processor - 8MB of memory - 10MB of free hard drive - 256 colors (64K colors recommended) - Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or WIN-OS/2 A. To Install under Windows 3.1, WIN-OS/2 or Windows 95: (WIN-OS/2 users please refer to important information below) Run d:\setup.exe (where "d" is the letter of your CD-ROM drive). RUN THE INSTALL PROGRAM EVEN IF YOU HAVE INSTALLED A PREVIOUS RELEASE OF THINKPAD ESSENTIALS. The install program will search your hard drive to see if Adobe Acrobat, Video for Windows and PointCast should also be installed. The installation options are: ThinkPad Essentials, which is always pre-selected Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0, which is pre-selected if Acrobat 3.0 or later was not found on your hard drive. PointCast, which is pre-selected if PointCast is not already installed. On OS/2 systems this option is grayed out. Video for Windows, is pre-selected if VFW was not located. On Windows 95 systems, this option is grayed out. The ThinkPad Essentials installation program will invoke the Adobe Acrobat, Video for Windows and PointCast installation programs (as needed). The ThinkPad Essentials installation program will then search your hard drive for the location of Freelance for Windows, Adobe Acrobat, and either Netscape or Internet Explorer. You can manually adjust the path location of these applications by selecting the SETUP option from the ThinkPad Essentials main menu. B. Important information for installing with OS/2 Warp 1. Before you begin installing ThinkPad Essentials, make sure your system is set to run WIN-OS/2 in Enhanced mode. - Double click on OS/2 System - Double click on Command Prompts - Single click on WIN-OS/2 Full Screen, then right mouse click - Click on Settings - Click on the Session tab - Verify WIN-OS/2 full screen is selected - Click on WIN-OS/2 settings button - Verify All DOS and WIN-OS/2 settings is selected, click on OK - Click on 3.1 Enhanced Compatibility, click on Save button 2. To start ThinkPad Essentials installation, double click on WIN-OS/2 Full Screen (do NOT run SETUP directly from the OS/2 Desktop). 3. Insert ThinkPad Essentials CD #1 4. Click on File, click on Run 5. d:\setup where "d" is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive 6. A ThinkPad Essentials program group should have been created as part of the installation 7. Open the ThinkPad Essentials program group and double click on the "Essentials" icon. If you want to create an icon on the OS/2 desktop the path is: c:\tpessen\present.exe c:\tpessen\start.iwn ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Trouble shooting guide 1. MPEG videos do not play: MPEG 1 videos will work only on systems such as the 760CD/ED that have a hardware MPEG decoder or on the ThinkPad 380, 560 and 760 with a software MPEG decoder. MPEG 2 files require a hardware MPEG 2 decoder and are not supported under OS/2. 2. I select an item and nothing happens ThinkPad Essentials cannot find the program required to view this item. Select the "Setup" option from the main menu and verify that all application paths are correct. If you recently added, removed or moved one if the required applications it may be easier to re-install ThinkPad Essentials and have the installation program automatically search the applications. 3. Message: Freelance not installed During the installation of ThinkPad Essentials, the program was unable to locate either Freelance for Windows 3.1 or Freelance96. If you select "Setup" from the main menu, you will see that the path is blank. To correct, install Freelance and then manually add the path location in the "Setup" screen, or re-install ThinkPad Essentials after installing Freelance. Please note that Freelance for OS/2 does not work with ThinkPad Essentials. Freelance is only used in the Presentations section of ThinkPad Essentials. If you do not have a copy of Freelance for Windows, you may still view the presentations by selecting the Adobe Acrobat version. 4. Message: Acrobat not installed During the installation of ThinkPad Essentials, the program was unable to locate Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or later. If you select "Setup" from the main menu, you will see that the path is blank. To correct, re-install ThinkPad Essentials and make sure to select the Adobe Acrobat option. 5. Message: Browser not installed During the installation of ThinkPad Essentials, the program was unable to locate either Netscape or Internet Explorer. If you select "Setup" from the main menu, you will see that the path is blank. To correct, install a Windows based browser and either manually add the path location in the "Setup" screen, or re-install ThinkPad Essentials after installing the browser. If you are using another Windows based browser, you must manually add the path. ThinkPad Essentials cannot automatically launch OS/2 based browsers. 6. White screen with "Loading Files" is displayed ThinkPad Essentials displays contents by calling other programs such as Adobe Acrobat, Media Player and Lotus Freelance. In order to return to the ThinkPad Essentials menu it is important to first close the other application. You will get a "white screen" if the other application is minimized instead of closed. To correct, use the "Alt-Tab" keys and activate the minimized application, you will return to ThinkPad Essentials once the application has been properly closed. 7. Adobe Acrobat does not run under OS/2 Your WIN-OS/2 session must be set to run in Enhanced mode. Please refer to OS/2 installation instructions above. 8. I cannot find the icons on my OS/2 desktop or WIN-OS/2 session If you run SETUP.EXE directly from your OS/2 desktop, the installation appears to have executed correctly but not icons will be found in either the OS/2 desktop or WIN-OS/2 session. To correct: Run SETUP.EXE from a full screen WIN-OS/2 setup. You can manually add the icon to your OS/2 desktop, the path is: c:\tpessen\present.exe c:\tpessen\start.iwn ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send any comments and suggestions for future ThinkPad Essentials to: Ivan Ruiz IBM Multimedia Solutions Atlanta, Georgia, USA ruizi@us.ibm.com