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- THIS UPDATE IS FOR QUICKEN HOME INVENTORY 3 FOR WINDOWS, RELEASE 6 OR LOWER.
- =============================================================================
- If you are not running Quicken Home Inventory 3 for Windows, Release 6
- or lower, this update will have no effect on your software.
-
- TO CHECK THE RELEASE NUMBER OF YOUR VERSION QUICKEN HOME INVENTORY:
-
- 1. Start Quicken Home Inventory 3 for Windows
- 2. With Quicken Home Inventory open, hold down the Shift key while choosing
- "About Quicken Home Inventory" from the Help Menu.
- 3. A window appears. The first line will say:
- QHI 3 for Windows, Rn
- Where the "n" is located, a number will appear i.e. 2, 4,
- or 6. This is the "Release Number" of your version of
- Quicken Home Inventory 3 for Windows.
-
- If you are using Quicken Home Inventory 3 for Windows and have Release 6 or
- lower, follow the instructions below to run the update.
-
- UPDATING QUICKEN HOME INVENTORY 3 FOR WINDOWS
- =============================================
- You may update either from a floppy disk, or from your hard drive.
-
- TO UPDATE FROM A FLOPPY DISK:
-
- 1. Exit from Windows into DOS.
- DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THE UPDATE FROM THE DOS PROMPT WHILE IN
- WINDOWS. The update will not install correctly, and other
- problems may develop.
- 2. Change to your floppy drive to access the files.
- 3. To run the update, type QHI3R8 followed by the path of your
- Quicken Home Inventory 3 for Windows directory and the
- directory in which you installed Windows. Then press Enter.
- Example: QHI3R8 C:\QUICKENW C:\WINDOWS
-
- TO UPDATE FROM YOUR HARD DRIVE:
-
- 1. Create a directory on your hard drive called UPDATE.
- 2. Change to your floppy drive to access the files.
- 3. Copy the Quicken Home Inventory Update files into the directory.
- Example: COPY *.* C:\UPDATE\
- 4. Exit from Windows into DOS.
- DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THE UPDATE FROM THE DOS PROMPT WHILE IN
- WINDOWS. The update will not install correctly, and other
- problems may develop.
- 5. To run the update, change to the UPDATE directory, and type
- QHI3R8 followed by the path of your Quicken Home Inventory 3 for Windows
- directory and the directory in which you installed Windows.
- Then press Enter.
- Example: C:>\UPDATE\QHI3R8 C:\QUICKENW C:\WINDOWS
-
- CHECKING THE UPDATE
- ===================
- Once the update is complete, you will have Release 8 of Quicken Home Inventory
- 3 for Windows. This can be verified by using the steps described above in
- "To Check the Release Number..." As long as "About Quicken Home Inventory"
- displays Release 8, Quicken Home Inventory has been updated correctly.
-
- REMOVING THE UPDATE FILES
- =========================
- Once you have confirmed that the update was successful by checking the release
- number, you can safely remove the files that were used in the update process
- (if you ran Update from your hard drive). All of these files will be located
- in the UPDATE directory where you copied them. The files that can be deleted
- are:
- QHI3R8.BAT
- QHI3R8.RTP
- QHI3R8.RTD
- PATCH.EXE
- README.TXT
- CHKVER.EXE
- QCONNECT.DLL
-
- IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
- =====================
- If you have questions about the update process, refer to the Intuit Technical
- Support phone number in the back of your Quicken Home Inventory 3 for Windows
- User's Guide.
-