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Chapter 1

Installation

 Before you can use DESQview on your system, you have to install
it. This takes only a minute or two. Just follow the instructions
in this chapter. Three installations are discussed:

~Item~ Hard Disk installation for DESQview, page 10.

~Item~ Hard Disk installation for DESQview 386 page 12.

~Item~ Floppy Diskette installation for DESQview or DESQview 386,
page 15.

Be sure to read the one that is appropriate for your computer.
But first, please read these few introductory pages. They explain
what the install program does, what hardware and operating
systems are required and also what DESQview or DESQview 386 has
to offer for your system and and your software. Be sure that as
you install DESQview or DESQview 386 on your system, that you
refer to the Installation Notes at the end of this chapter for
additional information.

The DESQview installation program is "smart" and can detect those
features of your particular computer environment which are
critical to DESQview or DESQview 386 and configure DESQview or
DESQview 386 for your system. It can detect whether or not you
have a mouse, what kind of video adapter you have and if a VGA,
whether color or monochrome. The install program will ask for
confirmation for everything it finds and anything else it needs
to know. It also knows from what drive you boot your computer and
will create a batch file configured for your computer system and
the version of DESQview or DESQview 386 you are using.  If you
are installing DESQview 386, it will modify your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file to add QEMM-386 to your DOS path and your CONFIG.SYS file to
load QEMM-386 when you turn your computer on.

 During installation, DESQview's AUTOINST program will search the
hard disk on which you installed DESQview or DESQview 386 and
install (into DESQview) any programs it finds that it knows
about. This includes over 125 popular software packages and a DOS
window, the DESQview DOS Services and Memory Status programs, and
two sample DESQview windows used by the tutorial in this manual.

~Subhead~ System Configuration

 Before installing DESQview or DESQview 386, you should verify
that DESQview can be used with your hardware and operating system
configurations. In summary:

~Item~ DESQview runs on the IBM Personal Computer (PC) the IBM
Personal System/2, and 100% compatible systems.

~Item~ DESQview is compatible with PC/MS-DOS versions 2.x-4.x.
DESQview requires at least 640 of memory and (minimally) needs
either two floppy disk drives or one floppy and one hard disk
drive. You need about 360K free disk space for DESQview, and as
much as 500K for  installation of DESQview 386, so if you are
installing DESQview 386 to a floppy diskette, it must be a high
capacity diskette with at least 500K of disk space available.

~Item~ DESQview supports expanded memory boards that are 100%
compatible with the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory
Specification (EMS 3.2)~dash~such as the Intel AboveBoard.
DESQview extends EMS memory's standard capabilities by letting
several programs (such as Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2, WordPerfect 5.x
and FoxPro) store data in EMS memory at the same time, and by
swapping to EMS memory when DESQview needs to free up memory to
run another program or to save a "graphics screen" (see
Appendices A and B).

~Item~ DESQview also supports expanded memory boards compatible
with the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory (EMS4)
Specification, and the AST/Quadram/Ashton-Tate Enhanced Expanded
Memory Specification (EEMS). With EMS 4 or EEMS expanded memory
hardware, DESQview runs itself and as many programs as will fit
in expanded memory simultaneously. And, in addition, each of
these programs (such as Lotus 1-2-3) can be using EMS memory to
store data in expanded memory~dash~all at the same time (see
Appendix B).

~Item~ On a 386 or i486 PC, DESQview 386 acts as a 386 control
program, taking advantage of the 80386 or i486 PCs virtual 86
machine architecture for multitasking, program protection and the
running of 386 DOS extended programs.

~Item~ DESQview supports monochrome, color/graphics (CGA),
enhanced color graphics (EGA), and Video Graphics array (VGA)
display adapter boards.  It also supports a monochrome display
attached to a color/graphics or Hercules monochrome graphics
display adapter board. Two graphics drivers are available
optionally from Quarterdeck~dash~for the Genius and Wyse 700
displays.

~Item~ DESQview is compatible with Microsoft and Mouse Systems
mice as well as with mice having a Microsoft mouse compatible
driver. The mouse must have been previously installed on your
computer. If you have a mouse installed, DESQview installation
can detect it and will ask you what kind of mouse you have
installed. You can add or remove a mouse to DESQview at any time
by running the Setup program (see Appendix A).

~Item~ DESQview supports up to four communications ports. To use
DESQview's built-in Auto Dialer feature, you must have a modem
attached to one of these ports and tell DESQview which port
you're using (see Appendix A). If you have a mouse that attaches
to a communications port, and you also want to use the Auto
Dialer or run communications programs, you'll need to install two
ports, one for the mouse and one for communications. DESQview
automatically optimizes its handling of communications ports
unless you tell it not to (see Appendix A).

~Subhead~ Printer Contention

~Item~ DESQview can manage printer contention for you, if you
want (see Appendix A). Otherwise, you can manage it yourself by
just not starting to print in one program when another program is
printing.

~Item~ Other than as mentioned above, DESQview does not interfere
with or otherwise manage how your programs use communications
ports, printers, plotters, or other peripheral devices you may
have installed on your PC.  Simply configure these devices
according to the requirements of the programs that use them.

~Item~ DESQview supports RAM disks, print spoolers, and disk
caches.

~Item~ Most programs written to run under DOS version 2.0 and
later will run in DESQview. The DESQview features that a program
can take advantage of, however, depend upon how "well behaved" or
"misbehaved" (in relation to DOS) the program is. Programs that
don't write directly to the screen, or that are DESQview "aware,"
can run in small windows and in background.

 To overcome the "misbehavior" of some popular programs that do
write directly to the screen and aren't DESQview "aware,"
DESQview comes with special "loaders" that allow the program to
run in small windows and in background. When you install
DESQview, using the Add a Program command, DESQview makes sure
that the appropriate loader is used, if one is needed. If you
have a 80386 or i486 computer, DESQview 386's Virtualize
Text/Graphics option will allow most programs that write directly
to the screen to run in small windows and in background without a
loader. (See page 112 and Appendix K.)

~Heading~ Installing DESQview on a Hard Disk (8088, 8086 and
80286 PCs)

 You must follow these installation instructions for DESQview to
function properly. Just copying all the files on the DESQview
diskette(s) to your hard disk is not sufficient, whether you are
installing DESQview for the first time or upgrading from an
earlier version.

If you boot from your hard disk, and want to install DESQview on
your boot disk, you are ready to begin. (If not, see note 6 on
page 18). If you are installing DESQview 386 on an 80386 or i486
computer, please turn to the following page for installation
instructions.

If you are upgrading a previous version of DESQview which is in
the same directory, the Install program will preserve your
existing configuration (Note 2, page 18). However, it is always a
good idea to backup your current DESQview files in case of a
mishap during installation.

~Subhead~ Installing DESQview

 To install DESQview:

~Step~ Place the DESQview diskette in drive A (or other floppy
drive).

~Step~ Type A: (or other floppy drive) and press <Enter>.

~Step~ Type INSTALL and press <Enter>.

NOTE: If you have an LCD or Gas Plasma display, as on some
laptops, we recommend that you run INSTALL in monochrome mode:

~Step~ Type INSTALL/m and press <Enter>.

Then follow the instructions on the screen. The Install program
copies the DESQview files to your hard disk.

After DESQview is copied to the hard disk, the installation
procedure searches your hard disk for all the programs it knows
about and then installs these programs in DESQview. If you have a
program that is not automatically installed, please refer to
Chapter 3, Using DESQview, Adding a Program. Or if you'd like to
auto-install programs that are on another disk drive, you can run
the auto-install program, AUTOINST, any time outside of DESQview.
(Note 4, page 18)

When installation is finished, the message DESQview installation
complete appears and the DESQview Setup program starts up. Follow
the instructions given.

For most of you responding to the few questions for DESQview's
Simple Setup is sufficient. Simple Setup asks you if you wish to
run in color, and, if you have a mouse, the port that it uses. If
you wish to change your setup later you can do so. The DESQview
Setup program can be run at any time you wish.

When you've completed setting up DESQview, remove the master
DESQview diskette from the floppy drive and store it in a safe
place.

DESQview is now ready to go. To run DESQview, follow the
instructions on page 20, Starting Up DESQview.

For additional information on installing DESQview, see
Installation Notes, page 18 and:

~Item~ Appendix A, The DESQview Setup Program.

~Item~ Appendix B, Using DESQview with Expanded Memory.

~Item~ Appendix C, Using DESQview with a Network.

~Item~ Appendix H, More About What Programs Run in DESQview.

 Appendix L: Using Windows 3 with DESQview.

~Heading~ Installing DESQview 386 on a Hard Disk

 You must follow these installation instructions for DESQview 386
to function properly. Just copying all the files on the DESQview
386 diskette(s) to your hard disk is not sufficient, whether you
are installing DESQview 386 for the first time or upgrading from
an earlier version.

This section assumes that you have purchased DESQview 386 and
wish to install it on your system. However, if you already own
DESQview, you can turn DESQview into DESQview 386 by purchasing
the Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager-386 (QEMM-386). Once
QEMM- 386 is installed, the two programs, DESQview and QEMM-386,
working together become DESQview 386.

The DESQview 386 Install program installs DESQview and QEMM-386
on your hard disk. The installation process takes only a few
minutes.

Installation first leads you through the installation of QEMM-
386, and then the DESQview installation. When these are
installed, your system must be rebooted before QEMM-386 and its
features are available. You will also be reminded at this time to
run an Optimize program to take advantage of some of the
additional memory enhancing features of DESQview 386.

The installation program also installs Manifest, Quarterdeck's
comprehensive memory reporting and analysis program, if Manifest
is bundled with DESQview 386. Manifest describes your PC,
specifically the software and hardware that use you PC's memory.
In doing so, it gives you an understanding of how best to use
your PC's memory.

As a precaution, before installing DESQview 386, you should check
that there is no other expanded memory manager specified in your
CONFIG.SYS file. An expanded memory manager characteristically
has the letters, EMM, in its name. Also, if Microsoft's HIMEM.SYS
extended memory manager is specified in your CONFIG.SYS file, you
should remove it. QEMM-386 is an extended memory manager, and
provides the same functionality as HIMEM.SYS.

If you have a new 80386 PC, be sure to complete the standard
installation and setup procedures of your PC before installing
DESQview 386.

If you boot from your hard disk, and want to install DESQview 386
on your boot disk, you are ready to begin. (If not, see note 6 on
page 18).

If you are upgrading a previous version of DESQview 386 which is
in the same directory, the Install program will preserve your
existing configuration (note 2, page 18). However, it is always a
good idea to backup your current DESQview 386 files in case of a
mishap during installation.

If you are re-installing DESQview 386, or for some other reason
do not wish to install both QEMM-386 and DESQview at this itme,
the INSTALL program will give you the opportunity to do a partial
installation.

~Subhead~ Installing DESQview 386

 To install DESQview 386 :

~Step~ Place the DESQview 386 diskette in drive A or other floppy
drive

~Step~ Type A: (or log on to other floppy drive) and press
<Enter>.

~Step~ Type INSTALL and press <Enter>.

NOTE: If you have an LCD or Gas Plasma display, as on some
laptops, we recommend that you run INSTALL in monochrome mode:

~Step~ Type INSTALL/m and press  <Enter>.

Then follow the instructions on the screen. The Install program
first  copies the QEMM-386 files and then the DESQview files to
your hard disk.

The directory in which QEMM.SYS is installed is added to your DOS
path. If you did not allow Install to reboot your system when you
were asked, at the end of Install, please reboot your machine
now.

DESQview 386's Optimize program scans your CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT files for device drivers, TSRs and DOS resources
that can be put in the high memory area of your 80386. From its
analysis, Optimize makes changes to these files to make use of
this memory for you.  It also makes sure you have QEMM.SYS
loaded.

After DESQview is copied to the hard disk, the installation
procedure searches your hard disk for all the programs it knows
about and then installs these programs in DESQview. If you have a
program that is not automatically installed, please refer to
Chapter 3, Using DESQview, Adding a Program. Or if you'd like to
auto-install programs that are on another disk drive, you can run
the auto-install program, AUTOINST, any time outside of DESQview.
(Note 4, page 18)

When installation is finished, the message DESQview installation
complete appears and the DESQview Setup program starts up. Follow
the instructions given.

For most of you responding to the few questions for DESQview's
Simple Setup is sufficient. Simple Setup asks you if you wish to
run in color, and, if you have a mouse, the port on which it is
installed. If you wish to change your setup later you can do so.
The DESQview Setup program can be run at any time you wish.

When you've completed setting up DESQview, remove the master
DESQview diskette from the floppy drive and store it in a safe
place.

 DESQview is now ready to go. To run DESQview, follow the
instructions on page 20, Starting Up DESQview .

For additional information on installing DESQview, read
Installation Notes  at the end of this chapter and see:

~Item~ Appendix A, The DESQview Setup Program,

~Item~ Appendix B, Using DESQview with Expanded Memory or a 386
PC.

~Item~ Appendix C, Using DESQview with a Network.

~Item~ Appendix H, More About What Programs Run in DESQview,

 Appendix L, Using Windows 3 with DESQview.

~Heading~ Installing DESQview or DESQview 386 on a Floppy-Based
System

 You must follow the installation instructions given on this page
for DESQview or DESQview 386 to function properly. Just making a
copy of the DESQview diskette(s) is not sufficient, whether you
are installing DESQview for the first time or upgrading from a
previous version.

Because DESQview lets you run several programs at once, using
DESQview on a floppy-based or laptop PC requires some extra
planning. See Appendix D for suggestions on how to do this.

You must install DESQview on a system diskette, if you want to
run it from the same diskette from which you boot your computer.6
If you are installing DESQview 386 on a floppy diskette, the
target disk drive must be at least 720K and it must be a system
diskette for OPTIMIZE to execute. DESQview 386 cannot be
installed on one 360K diskette as there is not enough room for
both QEMM, DESQview and the necessary files to run OPTIMIZE.   If
you have no choice but to use a 360K floppy for DESQview 386,
select Partial install, when asked, then install QEMM to a boot
(system)  diskette.  When the QEMM system diskette is done, run
Install again, select Partial, and install DESQview on another
360K diskette.

You may install from any floppy drive.

~Step~ Place the DESQview or DESQview 386 diskette in drive A or
other floppy drive.

~Step~ Type A: to log on to drive A (or log on to other floppy
drive).

~Step~ Type INSTALL and press <Enter>

NOTE: If you have an LCD or Gas Plasma display, as on some
laptops, we recommend that you run INSTALL in monochrome mode:

~Step~ Type INSTALL/m and press  <Enter>.

Then follow the instructions on the screen. The Install program
copies the DESQview files to your hard disk.

Note that if you are installing DESQview 386, the installation
first leads you through the installation of QEMM-386, and then
the DESQview installation. When these are installed, your system
must be rebooted before QEMM-386 and its features are available.
You will also be reminded at this time to run an Optimize program
to take advantage of some of the additional memory enhancing
features of DESQview 386.

For DESQview 386 only: The directory to which QEMM.SYS was
installed has been added to your DOS path. If you did not allow
Install to reboot your system when you were asked, at the end of
Install, please reboot your machine now and run OPTIMIZE.

~Step~ Type OPTIMIZE to run QEMM's optimization program.

The Optimize program scans your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files
for device drivers, TSRs and DOS resources that can be put in
your  386's high  memory.  From its analysis, Optimize makes
changes to these files to make use of this memory for you. It
also makes sure you have QEMM.SYS loaded. For many, the use of
OPTIMIZE immediately following DESQview 386 installation is all
that is necessary to make immediate use of this  high memory
between 640K and 1024K.

As a precaution, before installing DESQview 386, you should check
that there is no other expanded memory manager specified in your
CONFIG.SYS. An expanded memory manager characteristically has the
letters, EMM, in its name. Also, if Microsoft's HIMEM.SYS
extended memory manager is specified in your CONFIG.SYS file, you
should remove it. QEMM-386 is an extended memory manager, and
provides the same functionality as HIMEM.SYS.

When installation is finished, the message DESQview installation
complete appears and the DESQview Setup program starts up. Follow
the instructions given.

For most of you responding to the few questions for DESQview's
Simple Setup is sufficient. Simple Setup asks you if you wish to
run in color, and, if you have a mouse, the port on which it is
installed. If you wish to change your setup later you can do so.
The DESQview Setup program can be run at any time you wish.

When you've completed setting up DESQview, remove the master
DESQview diskette(s) from the floppy drive and store it (them) in
a safe place. Use the DESQview diskette you just created as your
everyday DESQview diskette.

DESQview is now ready to go. To run DESQview, follow the
instructions on page 20, Starting Up DESQview.

For additional information on installing DESQview see page 17
and:

Installation Notes on page 18,

~Item~ Appendix D, Using DESQview with a Floppy-Based System

~Item~ Appendix A, The DESQview Setup Program,

~Item~ Appendix B, Using DESQview with Expanded Memory or a 386
PC.

 Appendix C, Using DESQview with a Network.

~Heading~ Setting up DESQview

 The DESQview installation procedure (INSTALL) installs DESQview
on your system and makes it operational. In doing so, it makes
certain assumptions about how your system is configured and about
how you would like certain DESQview options set. You can change
DESQview's default assumptions at any time by running the Setup
program, either from inside DESQview or from DOS. If you run
Setup from inside DESQview, the new setup will not take effect
until the next time you start DESQview.

When you run INSTALL, it automatically runs the Setup program for
you.  A menu appears asking  you to choose either the simple
setup procedure, for the first-time user, or the advanced setup
procedure, for the experienced user. We recommend that you choose
the simple procedure to get started.

The advanced setup procedure lets you set up options in eight
categories:

~Item~ The Auto Dialer option lets you specify what port your
Auto Dialer modem is attached to, what dialer protocol it uses
(initally assumed to be Hayes Smartmodem protocol), and what long
distance access codes you want.

~Item~ The Colors option lets you specify whether you want
DESQview to use color and, if you do, what colors to use for
DESQview windows, DESQview menus, and for programs written
expressly for DESQview.

~Item~ The Keyboard option lets you specify whether you want
DESQview's Learn feature to be available and whether you want to
change the keystrokes for certain DESQview system keys. You may
also chose to maintain separate shift states for each window.  If
you enter "Y"  (Yes) for this option, DESQview will keep track of
the state of the NUMLOCK, CAPS LOCK, SCROLL LOCK and PAUSE keys
on a window by window basis. This can be an important feature to
support certain applications which need to know the state of
these keys.

~Item~ The Logical Drives option lets you take advantage of DOS
directories (even for programs that don't understand directories)
and lets you specify where DESQview should swap programs and
"graphics screens."

~Item~ The Mouse option lets you specify whether you have a mouse
installed on your system and, if you do, what type of mouse and
how it's attached.

~Item~ The Performance option lets you customize the performance
characteristics of DESQview to your personal needs.

~Item~ The Video Monitor option lets you specify what type of
display adapter board you have, whether text and graphics should
be displayed at the same time, and whether DESQview should blank
the screen after a certain time.

~Item~ The Window Positions option lets you specify the nine
predefined window positions used by DESQview when it opens a
window or when you use the Position command.

 See Appendix A for more information on advanced setup features.

~Heading~ Installation Notes

 1     Although you can use DESQview without QEMM-386 on a 386 or
i486 PC, when you do, you lose all the advantages of the 386 PC's
ability to use the virtual 86 machine architecture to emulate
expanded memory~dash~namely, breaking through the DOS 640K
barrier to run as many programs as will fit in the 386 PC's
memory simultaneously and letting multiple programs store data in
expanded memory at the same time.

 2     When you install DESQview or DESQview 386 for the first
time, the install program will create a file called DV. COM,
which is a copy of the file, XDV.COM. When you start DESQview or
DESQview 386 by typing DV, your computer will run DV.COM which in
turn  runs DV.EXE. When DESQview  or DESQview 386 is started up
by using the file DV.COM, part of DV.EXE is loaded into expanded
and/or extended memory, if you have it. This helps maximize the
size of the programs you can run in DESQview. To use DV.COM, you
must have expanded or extended memory in place and an expanded or
extended memory manager installed.

 The reason both DV.COM and XDV.COM are included is for backward
compatibility with previous versions of DESQview and DESQview
386, where we had users copy XDV.COM to DV.COM themselves: If you
are installing an upgrade of DESQview on the same drive and
directory (or on the same diskette) as  your previous version,
the installation will leave your configuration as you had it so
that you may start DESQview or DESQview 386 in the exactly same
manner as before  you upgraded. If this is a new installation,
you need not be concerned about either file~dash~except perhaps
for troubleshooting purposes~dash~just type DV to start DESQview
or DESQview 386 and the right file will be executed.

 3      When you install DESQview on a hard disk, it creates a
directory named DV and installs all DESQview's files in this
directory unless you specify a different drive and/or  directory
when asked during installation. See Appendix G for specific
information on the various files DESQview installs.

 4     DESQview performs automatic program installation by
running AUTOINST.COM. This program works in conjunction with the
file DESQVIEW.DIR, which contains the information for all the
programs listed on the Add a Program menu.

 Part of this information is a file name that's unique for each
program ~dash~ when possible. AUTOINST thus performs automatic
installation by searching your hard disk for the unique name of
every program listed in the fiile,  DESQVIEW.DIR.

 As verification, it lists the names of the programs it finds and
the directories the programs were found in.  You should check
this list to be sure that the correct programs have been
located~dash~ because some programs don't have a genuinely unique
file name to search for.  For example,  you execute WordPerfect
from a file named  WP, which isn't very unique.

  If you have several hard disk drives, the automatic program
installation procedure only runs AUTOINST on the drive on which
you install DESQview. You must run it on your other drives
yourself. Also, you must run AUTOINST outside of DESQview because
it updates DESQVIEW.DVO, which is loaded when you start up
DESQview. For instance, if DESQview is installed on drive C and
you wish to auto-install programs on drive D, from your DESQview
directory on drive C :

 Type AUTOINST D: and press <Enter>.

 5     Although it's not mandatory, we recommend that you
allocate at least 20 file handles and 15 file buffers when you
boot your system, by placing the statements:

 FILES=20
 BUFFERS=15

 in your CONFIG.SYS file. If you use programs that open a lot of
files, such as programs that sort databases, set the FILES
parameter to an even larger number.

 6     If you boot from a diskette (rather than from your hard
disk), or if you have several hard disk drives and want to
install DESQview on a different drive than the one you boot from,
you must tell DESQview where it can find COMMAND.COM. DESQview
won't work, and cannot be installed, unless it can find
COMMAND.COM. DESQview follows the DOS environmental variable,
COMSPEC.

 For instance, if you boot from a diskette and want to installl
DESQview on hard disk drive C, you must set COMSPEC from DOS
before starting DESQview. From the DOS prompt:

~Step~ Type  SET COMSPEC=C:\

 or the drive and directory where COMMAND.COM is located.