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- File Manager StepUp for Windows(r) NT
- Copyright (c) 1994-96, Chaosoft. All rights reserved.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This file contains instructions on installing FM StepUp for
- Windows(r) NT and using its 'Setup' utility, as well as
- troubleshooting recommendations.
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 1. Introduction and terminology
- 2. Administrative setup
- 3. Individual user setup
- 4. Uninstalling FM StepUp
- 5. Troubleshooting
- 5.1. File Manager suddenly fails to run
- 5.2. File Manager still does not work properly
- 5.3. Undefined function ... in module CTL3D32.DLL
- 5.4. This application uses CTL3D32.DLL which is not
- properly installed
- 5.5. If the problem persists...
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 1. INTRODUCTION AND TERMINOLOGY
-
- Unlike most other Windows applications, FM StepUp is not a stand-
- alone program; there is no special executable file you would run to
- start FM StepUp. To use the program, you need to properly install
- and set it up and, every time you run File Manager, FM StepUp will
- run automatically.
-
- FM StepUp *CANNOT* be installed 'locally', to be used by a single
- user; this is because File Manager itself is a 'shared' Windows
- application, and if an add-on to File Manager is installed, it is
- shared by all users of the system. However, every user may
- 'deactivate' FM StepUp if s/he does not want to use it, after the
- software is installed by the System Administrator. Other users will
- be able to continue using FM StepUp.
-
- To make the software available for use, the following steps must be
- performed:
-
- 1. Copying all files from the FM StepUp package into a directory,
- which must be at least 'readable' by all users. It is
- recommended to use a separate subdirectory of the 'win32app'
- directory for this purpose. This step should be performed by the
- system administrator, or another user, who has an appropriate
- privilege level. The Setup utility may be used to perform this
- step.
-
- 2. Registering FM StepUp in the System Registry as an add-on to
- File Manager ('enabling' FM StepUp). This step also should be
- performed by the administrator, since regular users are usually
- not allowed to modify the shared part of Registry. The Setup
- utility may be used to perform this procedure.
-
- After this step is complete, FM StepUp is loaded and used
- automatically whenever a user runs File Manager. Each user, is
- able, however, to deactivate FM StepUp and then activate it again
- any number of times, depending on his or her own preferences.
-
- 3. Purchasing a license for continued use of FM StepUp and,
- after paying the license fee and obtaining a registration code, entering the
- registration information into the Registry. If a site license is
- purchased, this step must be performed by the administrator. If
- an individual use license is obtained, this step is performed by
- the user (all other users in the same location will still be able
- to continue evaluation of the program and then register it
- independently on each other). The Setup utility may be used to
- perform this step.
-
- If a user decides that s/he does not want to use this program,
- s/he must deactivate it (using the Setup utility), and FM StepUp
- will not be loaded for this user. Other users will be able to
- continue using FM StepUp.
-
- The rest of this document provides more detailed information on
- performing the installation and registration procedures using
- the Setup utility, included in the FM StepUp package. The following
- terms are used throughout this text:
-
- 'currently installed version' -
-
- the version of FM StepUp which is currently available for use
- when you start the Setup utility. There may be no such a
- version, if no previous version of FM StepUp has been installed
- in the system before.
-
- 'version being set up' -
-
- the set of FM StepUp files from which the Setup utility is being
- run. All the files included in FM StepUp package must be kept in
- the same directory, and the Setup utility considers the set of
- files in the directory from which it is launched as the 'master'
- set of files. If you have a number of different sets of files
- (for instance, different versions of FM StepUp located in
- separate directories), you can set up each of them by running the
- Setup utility from the corresponding directory.
-
- 'enabling(disabling) FM StepUp' -
-
- making FM StepUp available for use by a certain group of the
- users. This procedure is performed by the system administrator,
- or some other user with the privilege level sufficient to modify
- the shared part of the Registry.
-
- 'activating(deactivating) FM StepUp' -
-
- instructing File Manager to load (or not to load) FM StepUp for
- an individual user. This procedure is performed by the user
- himself by running Setup.exe. It does not influence the
- availability of FM StepUp to other users.
-
- 'registering' -
-
- depending on the context, may mean one of the following:
-
- - purchasing a license for continued use of FM StepUp
- and obtaining a registration code. Please
- see file REGISTER.TXT for more information and order forms;
-
- - entering the registration code using Setup utility, and thus
- converting an evaluation copy of FM StepUp into a registered
- version;
-
- - registering FM StepUp as an add-on to File Manager in the
- System Registry. This is done automatically when you use Setup
- utility to install FM StepUp.
-
- 'power user' -
-
- any user with the privilege level sufficient to modify the
- shared part of the Registry (such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).
- There may be a number of different user groups with such
- privileges; for the purposes of this text they are
- indistinguishable between each other.
-
- 'regular user' -
-
- any user who is not a 'power' one (see above).
-
- FM StepUp comes with a convenient and flexible Setup utility. You
- may run it using the 'File-Run' command of Program Manager or File
- Manager, or double-clicking its icon. If you have a number of
- different versions of FM StepUp, BE SURE to run Setup.exe from the
- directory containing the version you want to set up! You cannot set
- up a new version of FM StepUp by running Setup.exe from the old set
- of files, if there is one.
-
- After you run Setup.exe and click on the 'OK' button in response to
- the 'Welcome' screen, the main screen is displayed, containing
- information about the version of the software you are setting up and
- directory in which it's located, the currently installed version, if
- any, and the following buttons:
-
- Administrative Setup
-
- Individual User Setup
-
- Exit
-
- The rest of this document provides detailed information on using
- these options.
-
-
- 2. ADMINISTRATIVE SETUP
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Before anyone can start using FM StepUp, it must be installed by the
- system administrator, or another user, whose privilege level is
- sufficient to modify the shared part of the Registry. If Setup.exe
- is run by a user without the necessary privileges, the
- 'Administrative Setup' button is grayed out and is not accessible.
-
- After you press the 'Administrative Setup' button, a new screen pops
- up, providing a number of choices to perform various installation
- procedures:
-
- Install -
-
- choose this button to quickly install FM StepUp in its default
- configuration. You may wish to use this facility if you are
- running Setup for the first time, from a diskette or a CD-ROM.
- You will be prompted for a new directory to place the files
- into, and the files will be copied in the chosen directory.
- You will be also prompted to create a Program Group for a
- number of FM StepUp files, such as Setup.exe, Readme.txt, and
- some others. Finally, FM StepUp will be registered in the
- Registry as an add-on to File Manager. After this step is
- completed, FM StepUp is ready to use by all users of your
- system.
-
- Do not use the 'Install' option if you have already placed all
- FM StepUp files in the destination directory. Instead,
- choose the 'Enable' button to enable FM StepUp (see below).
-
- NOTE: FM StepUp uses CTL3D32.DLL file to produce 3D effects
- when displaying dialog boxes.
- If you do not
- have this file installed in your system, you may do it
- manually, either before or after installing FM StepUp. To
- install CTL3D32.DLL, copy it into your WINNT/SYSTEM32
- directory. Yes, it's *that* easy!
-
- Enable -
-
- use this button to change the availability of FM StepUp to the
- users of your system. You may make the changes immediately
- after you have installed FM StepUp, or you may exit Setup and
- run it again later on to change the settings.
-
- After you choose 'Enable', a dialog box with a number of
- options is presented. It is important to keep in mind that if
- you are running Setup from a directory different from the
- directory in which the currently installed version of FM StepUp
- is located, then pressing 'OK' in this dialog box will make
- version 'being setup' the 'currently installed' one. If you
- want to change one of the settings in this dialog box, be sure
- to run Setup from the directory where the currently installed
- version is located.
-
- By default, Setup makes FM StepUp available to all users. If
- you leave it that way, each user will be able to deactivate FM
- StepUp, if s/he does not want to use it, by running Setup.exe
- and performing the 'Individual User Setup' (see below in this
- file).
-
- The second choice also allows you to make FM StepUp available
- to all users. The difference is that FM StepUp will be
- initially activated and ready for use only to 'power' users,
- whereas 'regular' users will need to explicitly activate FM
- StepUp by running Setup.
-
- The third choice differs from the previous two in that FM
- StepUp will be initially deactivated for all users of the
- system (including Administrator!). Each user wishing to start
- using FM StepUp, will have to run Setup and explicitely activate
- the software. All users, both 'power' and 'regular' ones, will
- be able to activate FM StepUp.
-
- The fourth option in this group makes FM StepUp enabled and
- activated for 'power' users only. None of the 'regular' user will be
- able to activate FM StepUp for his or her own use. This
- option, for instance, allows your organization to purchase a
- site license for use FM StepUp only by 'power' users.
-
- Finally, the fifth option disables FM StepUp by removing the
- relevant information from the Registry. Use this option if you
- wish to temporarily prevent all users from using FM StepUp, or
- if you have decided to completely remove FM StepUp from the
- system.
-
- Register -
-
- use this button after you have purchased a site license for use
- FM StepUp in your organization, to enter the registration
- information from your Registration Acknowledgment. After you
- have completed this step, the name of your organization and the
- number of users it is registered to will be displayed in the
- 'About FM StepUp' screen, instead of the words 'Unregistered
- copy'. Please refer to REGISTER.TXT for more information on
- purchasing a license for continued use of the software.
-
- NOTE: if you have purchased a license for individual use,
- rather than a site license, the registration information from
- your Registration Acknowledgment (your name and the
- registration code) must be entered in the Individual User Setup
- mode (see below in this file).
-
- Back... -
-
- this button returns you to the main screen.
-
-
- 3. INDIVIDUAL USER SETUP
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The Individual User Setup button on the main screen opens a dialog
- box with a number of choices related to the user who is currently
- logged on. Note that if the Administrative Setup has not been
- previously done, or FM StepUp has not been enabled by the
- administrator, the Individual User Setup button will be grayed out
- and unavailable.
-
- The first time the user chooses the 'Individual User Setup' button,
- s/he is asked to enter his or her first name. After that a dialog
- box with the following choices is displayed:
-
- Activate/Deactivate -
-
- choose this button to change the state of FM StepUp for the
- current user. If you deactivate FM StepUp, it will not be
- loaded by File Manager when you run it; all the other users will
- still be able to use FM StepUp as long as it is enabled (by the
- administrator, see the 'Administrative Setup' section above in
- this file). Every user may activate and deactivate FM StepUp
- for his/her own use any time and any number of times.
-
- Register/Unregister -
-
- use this button after you have purchased an individual use
- license, to enter the registration information
- from your Registration Acknowledgment. After you have
- completed this step, your name will be displayed in the 'About
- FM StepUp' screen, instead of the words 'Unregistered copy'.
- Please refer to ORDER.TXT for more information on purchasing
- a license for continued use of the program. Every user of the
- system may register FM StepUp for individual use independently
- on all the other users.
-
- NOTE: if you have purchased a site license for your
- organization, the corresponding registration information must
- be entered in the Administrative Setup mode (see above in this
- file).
-
- Back... -
-
- this button returns you to the main screen.
-
-
- 4. UNINSTALLING FM STEPUP
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you do not wish to use FM StepUp, you may deactivate it by
- running Setup and choosing 'Individual User Setup - Deactivate'.
- This will prevent File Manager from loading FM StepUp during your
- sessions, while allowing other users to continue using it. If you
- decide later on to start using FM StepUp again, you may activate
- it in the same way: run Setup and choose 'Individual User Setup -
- Activate'.
-
- To completely uninstall FM StepUp and remove it from the system,
- please run Setup and enter the 'Administrative Setup' mode (you
- must have an appropriate privilege level to do this). Then choose
- 'Enable' and, when the dialog box pops up, select the last option
- - 'Disable for all users'. Finally, after exiting Setup, delete
- all files from the directory in which you have previously
- installed FM StepUp.
-
- 5. TROUBLESHOOTING
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The following information is provided to help if you encounter
- problems when using FM StepUp for Windows NT.
-
- 5.1. File Manager suddenly fails to run
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you are using the New Shell (Windows 95-ish) with WIndows NT
- 3.51, make sure you are running the latest version of the shell,
- which can be downloaded from ftp.microsoft.com. FM StepUp is
- known to fail with the first alfa-release of the shell, but runs
- well with the second one.
-
- If the above is not the case, disable FM StepUp by removing
- information about it from the Registry in one of the following
- ways:
-
- - run Setup from FM StepUp directory and, using the
- 'Administrative Setup' mode, choose 'Enable', and then -
- 'Disable for all users'. Or, you can perform this operation
- manually:
-
- - run Regedt32.exe (located in your WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory)
- and find the following key:
-
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/
- Current Version/IniFileMapping/winfile.ini
-
- Find the value 'AddOns' under this key, it points to the key
- in the Registry which contains information about addons to
- File Manager. By default, this location is specified as
-
- SYS:Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\File Manager\AddOns
-
- where SYS: stands for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/. Find
- this key; the values it contains describe add-ons to File
- Manager, which are currently enabled in the system.
-
- FM StepUp is specified by the string variable 'FM StepUp',
- which points to the location of file FMSUNT.DLL. To disable
- FM StepUp, delete this value from the Registry.
-
- If, after you have disabled FM StepUp with one of the methods
- described above, File Manager still fails to run, the problem is
- *not* related to FM StepUp. Please refer to your Windows NT
- documentation for troubleshooting information.
-
- If, however, the problem goes away after you have disabled FM
- StepUp, it indicates that one of the following files, FMSUNT.DLL
- or CSLIBNT.DLL, has been corrupted by some reason.
-
- Solution:
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Delete all files from the directory in which you have installed
- FM StepUp and repeat the installation using the 'fresh' set of
- files (from the installation disk).
-
- Also, make sure that file CTL3D32.DLL in your WINNT\SYSTEM32
- directory is not corrupted.
-
- 5.2. File Manager still does not work properly
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you have installed a newer version of FM StepUp in the system
- where a previous version was used, make sure that the 'old' and
- 'new' files are not mixed: all files in the directory where you
- have installed FM StepUp should have the same date/time stamp.
-
- Another possible reason is the corruption of the user-specific
- configuration data, which is stored by FM StepUp in the
- Registry.
-
- Solution:
- ~~~~~~~~
- run Regedt32.exe (located in your WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory) and
- find the following key:
-
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Chaosoft/FMSTEPUP.INI/
-
- delete the FMSTEPUP.INI subkey (all its subkeys will be deleted
- as well). All settings of FM StepUp will be automatically
- restored to their defaults next time you run File Manager.
-
-
- 5.3. Undefined function ... in module CTL3D32.DLL
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This message indicates that an older version of CTL3D32.DLL
- is currently installed in your WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory.
-
- Solution:
- ~~~~~~~~~
- install a newer version of this file (copy this file from the FM
- StepUp set of files into your SYSTEM32 directory) and reboot
- system.
-
- 5.4. This application uses CTL3D32.DLL which is not properly installed
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This message indicates that there is another copy of this file
- somewhere on your disk, which is loaded prior to the 'master'
- copy installed into the SYSTEM32 directory.
-
- Solution:
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Perform a global search for the file CTL3D32.DLL on all your
- disks (you may wish to use the 'File-Search' command of File
- Manager for this purpose) and eliminate all the files found,
- except the one in the SYSTEM32 directory.
-
-
- 5.5. If the problem persists...
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Make sure you are running the latest version of FM StepUp. Please
- visit our FTP site at pik.com/pub/ChaoSoft or our Web site at
- http://pik.com/chaosoft.html to download the latest versions of
- our products.
-
- If this does not solve the problem, please contact us via e-mail at
- 74634.2173@compuserve.com. When reporting a problem to us, please
- provide the following information:
-
- 1. Version and build number of Windows NT you are using; version of
- the New Shell you are running (if any)
-
- 2. Version number of FM StepUp
-
- 3. Detailed description of the problem; a reproducable sequence of
- actions leading to the problem would be of most help;
-
- 4. If an error message is displayed by the system, the exact text
- of the message.
-
- Please send the information by e-mail to 74634.2173@compuserve.com.
- Thank you!
-