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- MICROSOFT BOOKSHELF 1992 FOR WINDOWS
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-
- Multimedia is a new technology, and the new combinations of
- hardware and software can present a variety of potential
- performance and configuration problems. This file contains
- the following information:
-
- o Tips for correcting sound problems, for improving the
- speed of your computer, and for improving print quality from
- Bookshelf.
-
- o Information about the integration of Bookshelf and Word
- for Windows.
-
-
- TROUBLESHOOTING
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- Correcting Sound Problems
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-
- If you don't hear anything when you play animations or
- pronunciations, make sure that:
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- o you have a sound card installed.
-
- o you have a speaker hooked up to the jack on your sound
- card (not to the CD-ROM drive).
-
- o the volume is set to an audible level.
-
- You can test sounds with the Sound option in the Windows
- Control Panel. If you hear no sound when testing sounds,
- open the Drivers option to check the sound driver files.
- These drivers must be compatible with your sound board.
- Make sure that drivers for both wave files and MIDI files
- are displayed in the Drivers dialog box. If necessary, set
- up your sound board again. If you still can't hear sounds,
- call the sound board manufacturer to verify that you are
- using the correct drivers and that there are no hardware
- conflicts.
-
- If you have installed Windows 3.1 and can play
- pronunciations but not musical examples, you may need to
- change your MIDI map. During the installation of Windows
- 3.1, Setup renames the MIDIMAP.CFG file to MIDIMAP.OLD and
- installs a new MIDIMAP.CFG file. If your original
- MIDIMAP.CFG file contains custom setups that use sound
- drivers not provided by Windows, you can change the port
- settings using the MIDI Mapper option in the Control Panel,
- or you can use your original file by performing the
- following steps:
- 1. Rename MIDIMAP.CFG to MIDIMAP.WIN.
- 2. Rename MIDIMAP.OLD to MIDIMAP.CFG.
-
-
- Improving Performance
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-
- Microsoft Bookshelf 1992 for Windows uses a lot of your
- system memory to display graphics and animations. If you
- find that Bookshelf runs slowly, consider doing the
- following to improve your computer's performance:
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- o If your computer is a 386, set up a permanent Windows
- swap file on your hard drive. See your Windows User's Guide
- for more information. Windows usually creates a temporary
- swap file, but if your hard disk is full or fragmented, this
- temporary file can become unavailable. Make the size of the
- permanent swap file at least 2048K.
-
- o If your computer runs at 20 MHz or slower and you have
- only 2 MB of RAM, use a 16-color driver for your display,
- even if you have a 256-color card. To change the display
- driver, run the Microsoft Windows Setup program from DOS or
- Windows and select the standard VGA driver.
-
- o If you have a 386 with only 2MB of RAM and you encounter
- out-of-memory errors, or if sound is not continuous and
- animations are slow, choose About Program Manager from the
- Help menu in the Program Manager window, and check to see if
- you're running in Standard mode. If the dialog box shows
- Windows is using Standard mode, exit and then restart
- Windows by typing WIN at the DOS prompt.
-
- o Run Bookshelf without the SmartDrive device driver. To
- disable SmartDrive, open the CONFIG.SYS file in Notepad,
- change the DEVICE=SMARTDRV.SYS line to REM
- DEVICE=SMARTDRV.SYS, and then save the edited CONFIG.SYS
- file.
-
- o Defragment ("clean up") your hard disk by running a disk
- defragmentation program.
-
- o Make sure that your CD-ROM drive is MPC-compatible (that
- the drive can transfer data from the CD at 150 KB per second
- while using less than 40% of the CPU bandwidth AND that the
- drive has an average seek time of less than one second.
- Check the documentation that came with your CD-ROM drive.
-
- o Add more extended memory to your computer. You can
- determine how much extended memory is available by typing
- MEM and pressing Enter at the DOS prompt. You need a
- minimum of two megabytes of memory to play sounds and run
- animations.
-
- For comprehensive documentation on improving performance,
- consult your Windows manual.
-
- Improving Printing
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-
- If you are not satisfied with Bookshelf's text formatting,
- you can use the Copy command on the Edit menu to copy the
- text, then paste it into a word-processing program for
- formatting and printing.
-
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- INTEGRATION OF BOOKSHELF AND WORD FOR WINDOWS
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-
- During Setup, you will be given the option of installing
- the feature that integrates Bookshelf and Word for Windows
- if your system meets the following conditions:
-
- o A non-network version of Word for Windows 2.0 is installed.
-
- o Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or higher is installed.
-
- o Your WIN.INI file contains a [Microsoft Word 2.0] section
- that includes a programdir={path} line and specifies a valid
- WINWORD.EXE file.
-
- o There is enough space on your hard drive to support this
- feature.
-
- If you install the integration feature, the Setup program
- modifies NORMAL.DOT, Word's global document template, to
- customize the Word Toolbar and menus. Changes you have made to
- the Toolbar, to the default menus, and so on, are preserved.
- Your original NORMAL.DOT file is saved as NORMAL.WAB.
-
- The integration feature also adds three items to Bookshelf:
- a Send button, a Send command on the Edit menu, and the
- Word & Bookshelf command on the Bookshelf Help menu.
-
- Setup also modifies your WIN.INI file, setting options in
- the [Microsoft Word 2.0] section and adding a [Bookshelf]
- section.