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- INTERNET TUTORIAL
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- This document contains important information not available in the
- printed documentation or in the online Help. The information below
- describes some solutions to problems that you might encounter while
- using the program. There are also frequently asked questions and
- answers listed below.
-
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- INSTALLATION
- ============
- The Setup program prepares your computer to run this Internet
- Tutorial CD-ROM.
-
- To run the Setup program:
- ╖ In Windows 95, select Run from the Start menu in other
- versions of Windows, select File, then Run.
- ╖ In the command line, type D:\SETUP.EXE (where D: corresponds
- to your CD-ROM drive).
- ╖ Click OK.
- ╖ The Setup program creates the C:\XNETUT32 directory
- (or one you specify) for you.
- ╖ For Windows 95, it also copies some DLLs to the
- \Windows\System sub-directory.
- ╖ For earlier Windows versions, it also copies one or more
- DLLs and other system files from the \dlls directory on
- the CD into the \windows or \windows\system directories
- on your hard drive.
-
- NOTE: Newer versions of these files will not be overwritten.
-
- In addition, the Setup program prompts you if you need to install
- the latest version of Video for Windows (VFW). After installing
- VFWs, you must restart your computer. You may re-install VFW at
- any time by running SETUP.EXE in the VFW11 directory on this CD.
- You DO NOT need VFW with Windows 95.
-
- The Setup program makes sure that Internet Tutorial is looking
- in the right place for the CD drive. If, for example, the drive
- letter has changed as a result of a system change (i.e.,if a disk
- or other device has been added or removed), then Internet Tutorial
- will fail to find its CD-ROM. You can check that the drive letter
- is correct by using Windows File Manager (or Explorer for Windows 95)
- to see which letter is assigned to the CD drive. Running the Setup
- program again will solve this problem.
-
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- VIDEO PLAYBACK CONSIDERATIONS
- =============================
- For best results on older or slower machines, play the video in
- 8-bit (256) color mode. Video playback is slower in any video mode
- other than 256 colors. Check Windows Setup to ensure that you are
- using a 256 color video driver. The Windows Setup is usually in
- the Main group of the Windows Program Manager for Windows 3.1, or
- under the Display icon from the Control Panel for Windows 95)
-
- You can also improve video playback, and overall program performance,
- by increasing the amount of buffer memory that your CD-ROM driver
- software uses. Most computers communicate with the CD-ROM drive
- through the Microsoft MSCDEX driver (for Windows 3.1). You can
- sometimes improve performance by adding /M:64 to the MSCDEX entry
- in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. This increases the number of sector
- buffers from the default of 4 to 64.
-
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- SHARE IN AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE
- ==========================
- Unless you are running Windows for Workgroups (3.11) or later
- versions of Windows, your AUTOEXEC.BAT file should include the
- line: "SHARE /L:500 /F:5100" or something similar. The /L parameter
- sets the number of locks, and the /F parameter sets the number of
- bytes of file space used to record file-sharing information. The
- values shown above are the minimum values required by OLE
- applications. Recent versions of Windows do not require this line.
-
- ===============
- TROUBLESHOOTING
- ===============
- =====
- VIDEO
- =====
- Q: Videos do not play (in earlier versions of Windows before
- Windows 95):
- A: You may not have the correct driver. Change the driver to
- one that works. Internet Tutorial works best in 800 X 600 mode.
-
- =====================================================================
- WARNING : SELECTING THE WRONG DRIVER COULD STOP "WINDOWS" FROM
- WORKING. MAKE SURE YOU SELECT A DRIVER THAT IS AVAILABLE ON YOUR
- SYSTEM. GET HELP IF YOU HAVE NEVER CHANGED DRIVERS BEFORE.
- =====================================================================
-
- If video still does not play, make sure you are using the latest
- video driver for your video board. Contact your video board
- manufacturer for more information. You may also be able to obtain
- updated drivers from CompuServe in either the Microsoft forum or
- in a forum managed by your video board manufacturer.
-
- Q: Videos do not play under Windows 95:
- A: You may not have the correct driver. Internet Tutorial works
- best in 800 X 600 mode. Windows 95 makes it easy for you
- to change into this mode: click on Display from the Control
- Panel, then Settings.
-
- Q: Video looks choppy.
- A: Video looks choppy because your CD-ROM drive cannot play
- the video fast enough. If your CD-ROM drive does not
- generate a fresh picture every fifteen seconds, you can see
- the delay between pictures. To speed up video playback:
-
-
- Q: Soundtracks in the videos are choppy (the people are stuttering).
- A: The soundtracks are not keeping up with the videos.
-
- To permanently fix this problem:
- ╖ Choose the Drivers icon from the Windows Control Panel.
- ╖ Double-click the line reading, "[MCI] Microsoft Video for
- Windows."
- ╖ Click the checkbox next to the "Skip video frames if
- behind" option so that an "X" displays in it.
- ╖ Click the Set Default button.
-
- If you use older versions of Windows Sound System and other drivers,
- the audio may be out of synch with the video. Obtain updated Windows
- Sound System drivers from the Windows Driver Library (WDL). For more
- information about the WDL, contact Microsoft Product Support. For
- third-party drivers, contact your sound board manufacturer's
- technical support department to obtain an updated driver.
-
- =====
- AUDIO
- =====
- Q: Audio volume is either too high or too low, and you cannot
- adjust it on your speakers.
- A: Adjust the volume on your sound card. To adjust the volume
- on your sound card when running Windows 95, click the
- "sound" icon on the taskbar.
-
- To adjust the volume on your sound card for earlier versions of Windows:
- ╖ Find the icon for your sound card program group in the
- Windows Program Manager. It is usually called "sound" or
- something similar.
- ╖ Find the icon for the Mixer program and run it.
- ╖ Adjust the volume and/or mix of sounds. Some sound cards
- have software that allows you to adjust the volume AND tone
- of the sound; start with these tone controls set in the mid
- position and your volume level set between 80 - 100%. This
- should give a clear signal with no distortion. If treble
- or bass is added in this software, you must reduce the
- volume to compensate, or distortion will occur. Check your
- sound card manual for the optimum settings.
-
- Q: Audio does not play.
- A: Make sure that the volume for your speakers is set to an
- audible level. If your system has a mute option, make sure
- it is not in effect. If audio still does not play, check
- that your sound board is set up correctly. Check to see
- that the audio driver that came with your sound board is
- installed correctly and, if necessary, reinstall it.
- See the documentation that came with your sound board for
- more details.
-
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- MEMORY
- ======
- Q: You receive an Out-of-Memory error.
- A: Close all unnecessary applications. You may find more
- memory becomes available if you restart Windows. If you
- are running Windows 3.x in Enhanced mode (the default mode
- if you are running Windows 3.x on a 386 or better machine),
- create a permanent swap file on your hard disk. A swap
- file uses some hard drive space as memory.
-
- NOTE: If you have not defragmented your hard drive in a while,
- be sure to do so BEFORE creating a swap file. Otherwise,
- Windows may not be able to find a large enough area of
- disk space to use as memory. Use the DOS DEFRAG command,
- or another utility to defragment your hard drive.
-
- To create a swap file:
- ╖ Double-click the 386 Enhanced icon in your Windows Control Panel.
- ╖ Click the Virtual Memory button on the right.
- ╖ If you don't see the word "Permanent" in that box, click the
- ╖ Change>> button and select Permanent in the Type field.
-
- Q: Internet Tutorial, like other Windows applications, stores
- temporary files in the \TEMP directory on the hard drive.
- Ordinarily, Internet Tutorial will clear this directory
- automatically. In case of a program or system failure, you
- may have to delete temporary files manually.
- A: To check the \TEMP setting and/or delete temporary files:
-
- ╖ Exit from Windows.
- ╖ At the MS-DOS prompt, type SET and press <Enter>. This
- gives you a listing of the MS-DOS environment settings.
- ╖ Confirm that one of the settings is TEMP= followed by a
- valid path.
- ╖ When you find the TEMP= setting, check the amount of disk
- space available on the drive where your temporary directory
- resides.
- ╖ If you do not have enough disk space, delete unnecessary
- files from the drive, or move the \TEMP directory to a
- partition that has enough disk space and change the SET
- TEMP= line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Usually, it should
- read something like "SET TEMP=C:\TEMP".
- ╖ Reboot your machine after modifying the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
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- DISPLAY
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- Q: Versions of ATI's video accelerator prior to 2.1 do not
- work well with Video for Windows version 1.1. Installing
- the accelerator software after installing Video for Windows
- can overwrite Video for 1.2. Windows version 1.1 components
- with components from the previous version.
- A: Avoid installing any version of the video accelerator unless
- it is specifically noted to be compatible with Video for
- Windows version 1.1. To obtain an updated version, you can
- contact ATI's customer support at (905)882-2626.
-
- Q: Your customization data has been lost or corrupted. This data
- is stored in a file called utitle.ttl in your C:\XNETUT32
- directory (or the directory you created during setup).
- A: The latest version of the INTERNET TUTORIAL program always
- saves a backup copy of your customization data in a file
- called utitle.bak in same directory as the utitle.ttl file.
- Copy this file to utitle.ttl.
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