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R. Kennon Boyden, D.D.S. Phone: 408.736.4323
Kimberly A. Loos, D.D.S. Fax: 408.736.9041
1565 Hollenbeck Avenue, Suite 114 E-Mail dentist@smiledoc.com
Sunnyvale, CA 94087 USA http://www.smiledoc.com/dentist
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Dear Parents and Educators:
Whether you downloaded this free software from our award-winning
internet site at http://www.smiledoc.com/dentist or installed this
software from a floppy disk, we thank you for your interest. We
hope children will find the program interesting, informative
and fun!
Our primary objective for distributing this "Interactive Dental
Office" is to entertain children while providing them with some
important dental information. Although we have a slight aversion
to the term, you might say we are "sugar coating" a fundamental
dental education with enjoyable multimedia entertainment.
We strongly encourage you to spend time with your child or
children viewing and interacting with this program. Your
participation will let children know that proper dental care is
important. We have kept the vocabulary simple in the educational
portions of this program. However, children less than 8 years old
may have difficulty understanding some of the key terms and
concepts. Portions of this program may be particularly useful
as a supplement to a unit on personal health or offered as an
extra credit opportunity for elementary school students.
As we developed and financed this project, we recognized a unique
opportunity to solicit voluntary contributions for the American
Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Educational Foundation. This
non-profit organization assists children throughout the world
by supporting and promoting education, research and policy
developments to advance the oral health of infants, children
and adolescents. If you enjoy this program, we urge you to make
a tax-deductible donation to the American Academy of Pediatric
Dentistry Educational Foundation, 211 East Chicago Avenue,
Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60611-2616, USA.
We are interested in your comments regarding this program.
We can be contacted at the addresses listed above. If you are
located in the San Jose or San Francisco area, we cordially invite
your family to visit our state-of-the-art dental office. We look
forward to personally meeting you and introducing you to our
professional, dedicated staff.
Very truly yours,
Dr. Kimberly A. Loos, General Family Dentist
Dr. R. Kennon Boyden, General Family Dentist
Mr. Brad J. Loos, California Professional Clear Teaching Credential #950077115
Express permission is hereby granted to freely copy and distribute
the unaltered contents of this program. Copyright 1996 R. Kennon
Boyden, D.D.S., Kimberly A. Loos, D.D.S., and Brad J. Loos.
All rights reserved. Smiledoc.com is considered a trademark.
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This program was created by:
@dver@ctive, Inc.
P.O. Box 2631
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone: (919) 932-6657
Fax: (919) 932-3722
Compuserve: 73122,2177
Internet: http://www.adveract.com
E-Mail sbullock@interpath.com
The folks at @dver@ctive (pronounced AdverActive) are most
interested in your thoughts about this program. Please feel
free to contact them at any the above addresses or visit
their highly interactive multimedia site on the internet.
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Technical Notes:
DE-INSTALLATION -- WINDOWS 3.1
As mentioned in the installation itself, this program DID
NOT ALTER any of your important system files (autoexec,
config, win.ini, system.ini, etc.).
To remove this program from your computer, simply follow
these steps (assuming you allowed the installation program
to install to the default directory of C:\DENTIST):
1) From WINDOWS, open the FILE MANAGER. Or, if you are using
Windows 95, get a directory of your C Drive through the
"My Computer" display. If FILE MANAGER or "My Computer"
does not display a directory tree of your "C" drive,
click the rectangular drive icon next to the "C" at the
top left of the window.
2) In the left display window, you should see a directory
named "DENTIST". Click on this word once to highlight
it. Make sure that this is the only word highlighted.
3) Press the "Delete" key on your keyboard. A dialog box
will pop up asking if you really want to delete ART_SHOW.
Click "OK". The program is now gone and you can exit
out of FILE MANAGER.
4) Now you can delete the "Program Group" and the "Icons"
from your main windows screen. Simply highlight each
one with a single click of the mouse and then press
the "Delete" key on your keyboard. A dialog box will
ask you to confirm that you want to delete these.
Click "OK" to confirm.
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DE-INSTALLATION -- WINDOWS 95
As mentioned in the installation itself, this program DID
NOT ALTER any of your important system files.
To remove this program from your computer, simply follow
these steps (assuming you allowed the installation program
to install to the default folder/directory of C:\DENTIST):
1) Double-Click the "My Computer" icon.
2) Double-Click the folder for your "C" Drive. You Should
see a folder within it titled "Dentist".
3) Drag the "Dentist" folder to the trash bin.
4) Close the "My Computer" program.
5) Drag any program icons for the dentist program from the
desktop into the Recycle Bin.
6) The program will be deleted from your hard drive the next
time you empty the Recycle Bin.
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DISPLAY SPEED -- WINDOWS
This program was designed to run well and with a modicum of
speed on a 486-25 or faster computer with 4 Mb or more of
RAM. It is optimized for a simple VGA display - 640x480
pixel display with 256 colors. In testing, it was found
that the program runs faster when the display driver settings
of machines are 256 colors (8 bit) rather than the fancier
settings of "thousands of colors" (16 bit) and "millions
of colors"(24 bit).
If you are a knowledgeable computer person and want to see
it run full-screen and at its fastest speed, set your Windows
display driver at 640x480 and 256 colors.
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DE-INSTALLATION -- MACINTOSH
Simply drag the icons for the program and this "Read Me"
file to the Trash Can. The program will be removed the
next time you empty your trash.
As mentioned in the installation, this program did not
install any Extensions or extraneous files on your
machine, only the two described here.