The WinMag CD Installation program (INSTALL.EXE in the root directory of the CD-ROM) should automatically create an association for WMLaunch, a utility we use to launch applications from the browser. (For security reasons, browsers don't have that capability built in.) It is also for security reasons that, the first time you launch an executable file on the CD-ROM, you will see a dialog box warning you that you are about to open a file with an extension of .WM. It is OK to open all such files on our CD-ROM. We suggest you unclick the checkbox that keeps this warning message appearing every time you launch an application, but whether you do so or not depends on your own security concerns.
Here's a quick test. If you click on this link and see a box that says "This Is A Test," then your browser is ready to launch applications from this CD-ROM and you can either check to see if your browser can handle zip files, or move to our Table of Contents. Otherwise, see the instructions for setting associations for WMLaunch (a utility we use to launch applications from the browser)
Here's another quick test. If you click on this link and see the file "test.zip" opened in an unzipping utility, then your browser is ready to unzip files from this CD-ROM and you can go on to our Table of Contents.
If you have not installed an unzipping utility (for extracting the .zip archives use by Superior Shareware files and other items on this CD), you may see an "Unknown File Type" dialog box like the following:
Most unzipping utilities create an association between themselves and the .ZIP file type in the Windows 95 registry. If they do so, this association will be picked up by Internet Explorer.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer can open any file type for which an association has been defined in the Windows 95 registry. Each Windows application you install creates associations for its file extensions. (For more information about file associations, see "To create or modify a file type" in Windows 95's online help and "Associating a File Type with an Application" in the Windows 95 resource kit.)
WMLaunch is a utility the WinMag CD uses to launch applications from your Web browser. (For security reasons, browsers don't have that capability built in.)
PLEASE NOTE: In most cases, running the install program in the root directory of the CD-ROM will set this association, and you don't need to. If you see an error message that there is already an association for the .WM extension, you do not need to do anything more to set the association in this section.
1. From the View menu, pick Options, then click on the File Types tab.
2. Click the New Type button. In the "Description of type" field, enter "WMLaunch document"; in the "Associated extension" field, enter "wm"; in the Content Type (MIME) field, enter application/wmlaunch.
3. Click the "New" button. In the Action field, enter Open. Then click the Browse button and select wmlaunch.exe from the root directory of the CD-ROM. Click OK, click Close, and click Close again.
If the error message you saw indicated that Internet Explorer didn't recognize a file type, press CTRL+HOME, go back to the top of this file, and find the file type in question, then follow the instructions for setting up an association for that file type.
If you saw this error message during installation under Windows 95:
Install failed to launch your Web browser!
For instructions on using your Web browser
with the WinMag CD, open the
installi.htm file
with your Web browser."
chances are your desktop icon doesn't work either. Here's how to fix it:
1. Right Click on the Start button and select explore
2. Click on the folder Winmag CD Spring 96
3. Right click on the icon Welcome to WinMag CD Spring 96.
4. Select properties, then Shortcut
5. Place a double-quotation mark (")at the start of the shortcut (make sure you are all the way to the left) and after .exe. Thus
BEFORE: c:\foo\bar\iexplore.exe d:/library/default.htm
AFTER: "c:\foo\bar\iexplore.exe" d:/library/default.htm
6. Select OK. Before you start running the CD, be sure to return to the top of this file and follow the instructions to create associations (you probably don't need a .WM association)
1. From the View menu, pick Options, then click on the File Types tab.
2. Click the New Type button. In the "Description of type" field, enter "WAV file"; in the "Associated extension" field, enter "wav"; in the Content Type (MIME) field, enter audio/wav.
3. Click the "New" button. In the Action field, enter Open. Then click the Browse button and select MPLAYER.EXE from the WINDOWS directory. Click OK, click Close, and click Close again.