Easy Family Tree Version 4.2 Readme File 10/2/1998 Easy Family Tree consists of 1 program: EasyTree *********************************************************************** About This Document: Thank you for purchasing Sierra Home's Easy Family Tree version 4.2. This document contains last-minute information about Sierra Home's Easy Family Tree and other information about the program not found in the Help Files. This README file includes information that pertains to general problems and questions you may have concerning this software or your computer. Should you experience any problems with Easy Family Tree, please refer to this file for additional help on answering questions about this application and solving technical difficulties. *********************************************************************** Topics included in this file: I. System Requirements to Install and Run Easy Family Tree II. Installation Procedures and Options III. General Product Issues IV. General Trouble-Shooting V. Sierra Contact Information VI. Easy Family Tree End-User Licensing Agreement and Warranty I. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ----------------------- 486DX/66 or higher (Preferred Pentium 90 or faster) 12MB RAM (16MB RAM) 2X CD-ROM Drive (4X CD-ROM drive) 50MB free hard drive space SVGA 640x480@256 colors (SVGA 800x600@16-bit high color) Printer required 14.4 BPS Modem 32-Bit Internet Service Provider required for Internet options II. INSTALLATION PROCEDURES AND OPERATIONS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation for Windows® 95 with AutoPlay activated: 1. Start your computer system so that Windows® 95 has launched. 2. Insert your Sierra CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. If you have AutoPlay activated, just select the install option and follow the on-screen prompts. Installation for Windows® 95 without AutoPlay activated: 1. Start your computer system so that Windows® 95 has launched. 2. Insert your Sierra CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. From the START menu select RUN. 4. In the RUN window, browse to or type D:\SETUP and click OK. This assumes that your CD- ROM drive is D. Please substitute the appropriate drive letter. 5. Follow the on-screen prompts to install Easy Family Tree to your hard drive. Installation for Windows® 3.1: 1. Start Windows® 3.1. 2. Insert your Sierra CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. From the Program Manager FILE menu, select RUN. 4. In the RUN window, type d:\setup and press [Enter] this assumes that your CD-ROM drive is D. Please substitute the appropriate drive letter. 5. Follow the on-screen instructions. STARTING Easy Family Tree: To start Easy Family Tree under Windows® 95, insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive, and select the RUN option when Autorun appears. Without AutoPlay activated, click on the START button and select Programs. Select the SIERRA option and click on the Easy Family Tree icon. To start Easy Family Tree in Windows® 3.1, open the Sierra Program Group and double-click on Easy Family Tree icon. III. GENERAL PRODUCT ISSUES -------------------------------------------- EASYTREE ISSUES Issue: Don't know how to add multiple parents in cases of adoption, multiple marriages. Solution: Create a new card and link the child to new parents. This can be done by going to the child's family card with their current parents. Choose EDIT PARENTS. You will be given several options. Click on SWITCH. This option will allow you to keep the adopted child's button with the current parents and move their card to their natural /or new parents. Unfortunately, there is no option at this time to tab back and forth between parents. If you decide to not keep the child's button with the current family then choose REPLACE instead of Switch. This option will remove the child's card from the current family to the new family. WINDOWS DISPLAY PROPERTIES 256-Color Display Minimum To display high-quality photographs, Easy Family Tree requires a display driver capable of displaying a minimum of 256 colors. If your family photographs appear in strange colors, your display driver may not be correctly configured, or chose a setting with a higher number of colors. Please refer to Windows(tm) documentation and the instructions, which came with your display adapter. PALETTE SHIFTING Some monitors running in 256-color mode will display a "palette shift" on occasion. A shifted palette will temporarily display colors incorrectly (e.g. Brown for Blue, Yellow for Red, etc.) If your monitor exhibits this behavior and your display becomes "stuck" with a shifted palette, minimizing the program and then reopening it should restore the display to the proper palette. PRINTING Issue: Printing cards may print off center on some printers. Solution: Try updated printer drivers if you have an older printer. Contact or visit your printer manufacturer's web site for the latest drivers. REPORTS Issue: Easy Family Tree can not locate your Word processor in Windows 95. Solution: Easy Family Tree was originally created as a 16-bit application under Windows 3.1. It has trouble locating files with long file names. An option to locate the word processor yourself will popup. Simply select Locate and follow the prompts. If you are not sure where your word processor is located then click on START and chose FIND FILES. Type in the name of your word processor and click OK. Find Files will locate your word processor and name the directory it is in. Then go back to Easy Family Tree EasyTree, open your family file, and click on Edit. Select REPORTS and choose your word processor. When the option to Locate comes up just select the directory of your word processor. OTHER Issue: Select all doesn't copy all the information. Solution: Select all will copy entire information on the line that the mouse pointer is pointed to. This makes it easier to copy single line information into your Family Cards. IV. GENERAL TROUBLE-SHOOTING ------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Before you begin troubleshooting, we strongly recommend completing steps 1 through 3 below before doing anything else. This will help ensure that the Program is installed under an optimal environment and eliminate many basic problems. Corrupted or bad installations can cause a variety of problems; it is best to eliminate this possibility before you begin additional troubleshooting steps. The following steps can be used on any of Sierra's On-Line's Family of Products unless otherwise indicated. 1. Check for Corrupt Files or other problems on the hard drive. Before you do anything else, run one of the following DOS Commands (listed below) on the hard drive where the Program is installed. These commands will check for lost allocation units, corrupted files, cross-linked files, and other disk errors, which can corrupt files and/or the Program's installation. These commands will also correct the errors they find. For more information on these commands consult your DOS manual. Windows 95 Go to START, RUN, and then type SCANDISK and click OK. Windows 3.1 Exit Windows and from DOS type SCANDISK and press Enter. 2. Check hard disk space. Run the CHKDSK command from the DOS prompt (regardless of the DOS version you are using) and check the available hard disk space ("Bytes Available on Disk"). Make sure you have sufficient space on the hard drive to install the Program. Programs installed on a compressed hard drive will need twice as much compressed disk space. (Example: If you use any disk compression, and you wish to install a Program that requires 10MB of disk space, be sure you have AT LEAST 20MB of space available, preferably 25MB to allow not only a safe margin, but also room for saving charts, family photos, and reports.) 3. Re-install the Program. After completing the above steps, it is a good idea to re-install the Program. Delete all the files and sub directories for the program from the hard drive. It is highly recommended that you boot up with a basic boot disk prior to re-installing the program. This will help insure that no memory resident problems (especially virus checkers) will interfere with the program's installation. 4. Check Available Memory. You can check available memory in Windows 95 by selecting Start, Programs, under Windows 3.1 click on Main and click on the MS-DOS prompt icon. From the DOS prompt icon, type "MEM" and hit enter. Note the values that are displayed. IVa. GENERAL PROTECTION FAULTS General Protection Faults are Windows errors that are typically caused by a memory conflict between one or more drivers or programs. Before you begin trouble-shooting General Protection Faults, you must have a basic boot disk for your system. Boot disk instructions are available from FAX (document #2470). A file called BDALL, which contains a boot disk creator utility and a complete set of boot disk instructions for a variety of systems, is also available. This file can be downloaded from our BBS at (206) 644-0112, or you can contact us in Technical Support from FAX at (206) 644-7697 or phone at (206) 644-4343 and have the disk sent to you. Finally, you will want a backup copy of your WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI files on this disk. Copy them to the boot disk using the following commands: COPY C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI A: COPY C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI A: NOTE: If your Windows directory is on another drive and/or using a name other than WINDOWS, use the correct name and/or letter of the drive instead of C: General Protection Fault Trouble-shooting Steps 1. First, correct all FAT table errors and lost allocation units by running SCANDISK or CHKDSK. Refer to Section Vc. General Troubleshooting, and read the instructions for Step 1 if you need additional information. 2. Make sure your Windows System Resources are over 60%. In Windows95 click on START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, and click on the SYSTEM icon. Click on PERFORMANCE. If resources are below 60%, close any and all other Windows applications before continuing to the next step. In Windows95 shut your system down. Restart your system and when you see the message STARTING WINDOWS 95 hit your F8 key and this should bring up a menu. Select SAFE MODE. If running Windows without the WIN.INI file active corrects the problem, make sure the LOAD= and the RUN= lines in the [WINDOWS] section of the WIN.INI file are blank, or insert a semi-colon (;) at the beginning of each line. (You can edit the WIN.INI with a text editor program like Windows Notepad.) This will prevent any other Windows software from loading. If this fails to correct the problem, Sierra On-Line recommends calling either MICROSOFT, or if you received your DOS/WINDOWS software with you computer system, you will need to contact the hardware manufacturer. They should be able to help you isolate the conflict between your WIN.INI file andyour SIERRA program. 3. Reinstall your Sierra Windows program, or the program that causes the GPF. Sometimes corrupted files and drivers (especially sound and/or video drivers in the case of Sierra On-Line Software) can cause GP faults, and re-installing them may correct the problem. Often times, updating to the latest available versions of these drivers will correct problems as well. Contact the software manufacturer if you need assistance re-installing and/or updating drivers. 4. Eliminate any memory-resident software. Close any and all other applications, make sure the STARTUP group is empty, and disable any and all screen savers (including the standard Windows screen saver) and shell replacement programs like Norton Desktop for Windows, PC Tools, etc. Also, don't run Windows from a menu program like DOS shell or similar programs. 5. To check for a Video driver conflict, change your Video driver to "VGA". A number of Video Drivers from third party vendors will conflict with some Sierra Windows programs. IMPORTANT NOTE : If your SIERRA ON-LINE program requires a 256-color driver, use Microsoft's "SVGA" (640by 480, 256 color) driver if you have it available. If you do not have this driver available, use another driver for your video card and see if it makes a difference. You can contact Microsoft's BBS to obtain the driver from them. 6. Check for other possible conflicts with other, third-party software drivers. You can edit your SYSTEM.INI file and temporarily comment out any and all third party drivers, e.g. Adobe Type Manager, third party printer drivers, Bitstream, etc. You can use Windows Notepad to edit the SYSTEM.INI file, and insert a semi-colon (;) at the beginning of each line, that loads a third party driver. In your SYSTEM.INI file, the [BOOT] section should be set to a standard Windows default, which is listed below: shell=explorer.exe system.drv=system.drv keyboard.drv=keyboard.drv mouse.drv=mouse=drv display.drv=vga.drv comm.drv=comm.drv sound.drv=mmsound.drv 7. Eliminate potential conflicts with DOS drivers by creating a basic boot disk that loads only those drivers necessary to start your system and Windows. A minimum boot configuration is listed below : AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS Path=c:\;c:\DOS;c:\WINDOWS Files=50 Prompt $p$g Buffers=30 Set temp=C:\ Device=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS Device=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS Stacks=9,256 Depending on your particular systems, the files above may not be sufficient for your system to boot normally. If you need additional assistance creating a boot disk, please refer to the Tsguide.doc located on the Easy Family Tree Program Disk. Creating a Windows Boot Disk. If creating a boot disk corrects the problem, then your GP fault is caused by one of the memory resident DOS program or Windows drivers that your system loads. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it does represent the most common solutions to General Protection Faults encountered with Sierra Windows Software. For additional assistance, you may wish to contact Microsoft or your hardware dealer (if Windows came pre-installed on your computer). IVb. CHANGING VIDEO DRIVERS AND FONT SIZES IMPORTANT NOTE : While we can tell you HOW to change your video driver, we cannot determine the appropriate driver for the specific brand and model of video card you have installed in your computer. When selecting a video driver, you must select a video driver specific to the video card installed in your computer. Please refer to documentation that came with your specific video card installed in your system. Most often, when you purchase a new video card, the Windows drivers will be included on floppy disks. If the video card came pre-installed with an entire computer system, the drivers should have been installed for you by the hardware manufacturer or included on floppy disks. Changing Video Drivers from your Windows95 Desktop: 1. Click your right mouse button on an open area of your desktop. 2. Click on PROPERTIES. 3. On the DISPLAY PROPERTIES screen click on SETTINGS 4. From this screen, you can change the number of colors if your card has that ability under the color palette section. If you have any problems changing your color palette to 16 bit color or need more information, consult your Windows documentation, or contact the hardware or video card manufacturer. Additionally, if you do not have the appropriate video drivers available to you, you will need to contact the hardware or video card manufacturer to obtain them. If you have any problems changing your video driver or need more information, consult your Windows documentation, or contact the hardware or video card manufacturer. Additionally, if you do not have the appropriate video drivers available to you, you will need to contact the hardware or video card manufacturer to obtain them. Changing Video Drivers from your Windows 3.1 Program Manager: 1, Click on MAIN 2. Click on WINDOWS SETUP 3. Chose OPTIONS 4. Select CHANGE SYSTEM SETTINGS 5. Click on the down arrow in Display to change your video settings. From here you can select the number of colors to 16-bit or higher, only if your video card can support those options. If you have any problems changing your color palette to 16 bit color or need more information, consult your Windows documentation, or contact the hardware or video card manufacturer. Additionally, if you do not have the appropriate video drivers available to you, you will need to contact the hardware or video card manufacturer to obtain them. Changing from Large Fonts to Small Fonts: Under Windows 95 follow steps 1-3 for changing video drivers and chose FONT SIZE. Under Windows 3.1 follow steps 1-4 for changing video drivers and chose FONT SIZE. V. SIERRA CONTACT INFORMATION Customer Service Support and Sales United States U.S.A. Sales Phone: (800) 757-7707 Sierra Direct International Sales: (425) 746-5771 7100 W. 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