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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
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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
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Please send any comments and suggestions for future ThinkPad Essentials
to:
Ivan Ruiz
IBM Multimedia Solutions
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
ruizi@us.ibm.com