SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

1. Insert the CD-ROM in your drive. The setup program should begin automatically. If the setup does NOT start automatically, then click your START button, click RUN, and type in D:\INSTALL substituting your CD drive letter for D.

Alternatively, you can double-click your My Computer icon, double-click the CD drive icon, then double-click on INSTALL.

2. If the setup program needs to update system files, you may be prompted to restart your computer now. Clicking OK will restart automatically and then you will need to perform step 1 above again. This step will not repeat.

4. Click "Accept" to accept the User Agreement screen and continue.

5. Click NEXT or press ENTER after selecting which Browser to install.

6. Click NEXT to continue after reading the Information screen.

7. Click TYPICAL to continue with a standard installation. On this screen you can also click BROWSE if you wish to choose a directory other than the default for installing the software. You must install to a local drive. Choose COMPACT if your drive space is limited, and only the selected browser and the Dialup Networking components will be installed. Choose CUSTOM to select which applications to install.

8.Click NEXT or press ENTER to accept the default Program Group and continue. This determines where the software will appear on your START menu. You will not be given this option if you previously selected COMPACT.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

All users 14,400 bps modem or better (or on a LAN on the Internet)

VGA display (256 color or better recommended)

Mouse or other pointing device

Windows 95/98?Hard drive space:?130 MB for full install with IE5 browser

70 MB for full install with Communicator

Processor: 486/66 or better, Pentium recommended

Drive: CD-ROM required

RAM: 16 MB minimum

Windows NT 4?Hard drive space:?130 MB for full install with IE5 browser

70 MB for full install with Communicator

Processor: 486/66 or better, Pentium recommended

Drive: CD-ROM required

RAM: 16 MB minimum

Other: Service Pack 5 required for IE5 browser.

Support not provided for NT Server.

Windows NT 3.51 NOT SUPPORTED

Installation Instructions for Windows 95/98

Alternatively, you can double-click your My Computer icon, double-click the CD drive icon, then double-click on INSTALL.

3. Enter your user number and serial number when prompted. Click NEXT or press ENTER to continue.

9. Files will now be installed automatically to your hard drive. Wait until they finish. If the setup needs to add Dialup Networking components to your Windows installation, you may be prompted for your Windows 95 installation CD. If prompted, be sure to insert the same CD that this machine was installed from since there are several different versions of Windows 95. This should not be necessary on Windows 98 since the Dialup Networking components are pre-installed.

10. Setup will now finish automatically configuring your computer and the newly installed software, and the browser software you selected will finish installing automatically. If you selected Netscape Communicator, your computer will prompt you to restart; if you selected Internet Explorer, your computer will restart automatically.

11. When your machine restarts after installing, you may be prompted to log in to Windows. Do not enter a password or you will have to use it every time. Simply leave the password blank unless you want to set a Windows password. You will not be prompted to log into Windows again if you leave the password blank.

12. After your computer restarts, you may be prompted to enter any special Dialing Options needed so your computer can download a configuration file. This feature is optional and may not be chosen by some ISPs; if it is not, ignore this step.

13. After your computer restarts (or after it has finished downloading the configuration file) you will be prompted to enter the local area code for your location. This is the area code for YOUR phone number that this computer is plugged in to. A local number in the same area code will be automatically selected for dialing in to the Internet. You can also manually select any number in the list, but be aware of any long distance charges you may incur by dialing a number not in your local area code.

If there is not a number listed in your local calling area, you can manually enter a number if one has been provided to you. To enter it, click on the checkbox beside Enter Number Manually and then type in the area code and number provided to you. Click NEXT or press ENTER to continue.

14. Enter your Real Name, Username, and Password. The Real Name is used to identify you in email messages you send to others, and you can enter whatever you wish. The Username and Password must be entered exactly as they were assigned to you. Then click ENTER to continue.

15. If you have been assigned more than one mailbox, you can enter the second one now. Click YES and then enter the Real Name and Email name for this email box. This step can be repeated for any number of additional mailboxes which have been assigned to you. Click NEXT or press ENTER to continue.

16.The settings you have entered during the setup process will be displayed for your review. If you have entered anything incorrectly, click the BACK button to return to the point where the error was made. If you are satisfied with your settings, click FINISH or press ENTER to continue.

17. Congratulations! You are now ready to go online and begin using your new Internet software. Simply double-click the new globe icon on your desktop to begin.

Installation Instructions for Windows NT 4.0

3.The setup program will check to see if Dialup Networking has previously been installed. If not, it will be installed automatically now. When prompted to select a protocol, choose TCP/IP. If Dialup Networking components must be added, you will be prompted to restart the machine at the end of this step. After restarting, launch the setup program again as in step 1 above. This step will not repeat.

4. The remainder of the setup will proceed exactly as in the Windows 95/98 installation steps. If you do not have NT Service Pack 5 installed on your machine, it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you not choose the IE5 browser option, as your browser and email will not work properly. If you need to install the NT Service Pack 5 on your machine, the SP5 installer is located on this CD-ROM in the /WIN95/SUPPORT folder. It must be installed before running this setup program if you wish to use the IE5 browser.

Application Summary and Quick Start Guide

Internet Control Center

ICC is a desktop utility for managing your Internet activities and applications. You will usually begin your Internet sessions by launching ICC. It is installed on your desktop as a globe icon. Double-click the icon to begin. When ICC starts, you can click the Dial button to go online, then start any of your Internet applications with the other buttons.

You can further automate your Internet session by right-clicking ICC to bring up the setup menu and selecting options. One useful option is Connect-On-Startup, which makes ICC dial the Internet when it is launched. If you also have ICC in your Windows startup group, you will be automatically put online every time you start your computer. Another option to automate your session is the QuickStart, also found on the right-click menu. This option allows you to start up your browser, email, or other applications automatically after ICC goes online.

You can also re-run the installation options for your Internet software directly from ICC by selecting Reconfigure Settings from the right-click menu. This will allow you to change your installation settings for the connection, account, location, etc. Holding your mouse over any of the buttons on ICC will display a text tooltip to show what that icon is for, until you get more familiar with each of the icons. You can also add your own custom buttons by using the options menu.

To learn more about using ICC, click HELP on the right-click menu.

Netscape Communicator

Netscape is a World Wide Web browser which allows you to view web pages and retrieve files from remote sites. Simply by clicking on links, or highlighted text areas or graphics on the displayed page, you can take a virtual tour around the world. Each link contains a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, which tells your browser where to connect to retrieve information and what format the information is in.

Your browser is set to automatically load your provider's homepage when you start it up. To view other pages, you can click any highlighted link, or enter any URL in the Location window, then press enter. You can also click the "Open" icon and type in a URL.

To learn more about using Netscape, click on HELP at the top of the browser window while running Netscape.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is another World Wide Web browser similar to Netscape. It allows you to view web pages. Simply by clicking on links, or highlighted text areas or graphics on the displayed page, you can take a virtual tour around the world. Each link contains a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, which tells your browser where to connect to retrieve information and what format the information is in.

Your browser is set to automatically load your provider's homepage when you start it up. To view other pages, you can click any highlighted link, or enter any URL in the Address window, then press enter. You can also click File/Open and type in a URL. To learn more about using Internet Explorer, click on HELP at the top of the browser window while running Internet Explorer.

Eudora Light (mail)

The Eudora mailer allows you to send and receive email with anyone who has an Internet email address. Your address is your "username" followed by "@" followed by your provider's "domain name". Example : nobody@nowhere.com.

To begin using Eudora, click the "New Message" (paper & pencil) icon to send a message, or click "File/Check Mail" to retrieve mail from your mailbox. You will be asked to enter your password the first time you retrieve mail, and then it is saved.

When you send a message, your return address is automatically included. To reply to email, simply click on "Reply" and the address is copied into your new message, as well as the text of the message you are replying to. It is good practice to only include enough of the message for continuity, and cut out the rest. To send your message, click "send".

Your Eudora mailer may be set to automatically retrieve any email sent to you every time you start it up, and also to check for new mail at preset intervals. You can adjust this to your preference. In between sessions, your mail is stored for you on the mail host at your provider's location.

To learn more about using Eudora, click on HELP at the top of the Eudora window.

How to remove old profiles from Outlook Express

The Connection Magic installer creates and configures a new mail profile in Outlook Express, and sets the new profile as the default. It does not remove any pre-existing profiles the user may have set up (and should not). However, when users change ISP's, the old account is usually deactivated and then creates an error whenever the user loads their Outlook Express, as it continues to try to check both the old and new accounts for email. Some users are not familiar enough with using Outlook to eliminate this situation.

To remove a profile in Outlook, click Tools, Accounts, select the obsolete account and click Remove.

Free Agent (news)

Free Agent allows you to read and post articles to Usenet Newsgroups, or public discussion groups. All articles posted can be read and replied to by anyone with Internet access.

On your first use, you will need to get a list of groups from the news server. Downloading the list of groups from the server the first time may take up to 20 minutes or more. Afterwards, the group list is stored on your machine. Currently there are over 20,000 worldwide newsgroups, and countless other local and regional ones.

There are two ways to answer news postings. A "Follow-up" is a response by you which is posted back to the group for all to see. A "Reply" is emailed only to the person who wrote the article you are replying to. It is customary to do both simultaneously.

To learn more about using Free Agent, click on HELP at the top of the Free Agent window.

WS_FTP LE

FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is the way files are moved around on the Internet. You can retrieve files from any FTP site which allows public access. There are many public archives, or collections of useful files. A number of sites are already stored in your FTP program. When you open WS_FTP LE you are presented with the "Site Manager" which allows you to setup, save, and connect to ftp sites.

Since file transfers may take several minutes or more, simply minimize the FTP window and perform other tasks in the meantime. You will notice some decrease in response depending on the capacity of your connection.

To learn more about using WS_FTP, click on HELP

Nifty Telnet (Not on NT)

Telnet is a remote login application. It allows you to connect to another machine on the Internet if you have a login account on that machine. When connected, you can use the services there just as if you were sitting at the console of that computer. Some services allow telnet access without an account. These are restricted accesses which won't allow you full use of the remote computer. This is often used for game playing (MUDS, etc.) and other special services which may be provided by a particular site. These services normally require a port number after the machine name to identify the specific service you are requesting.

To use telnet, you must enter either the host name, or its numeric IP address, followed by a port number if it is required. Enter one space between the host and port number. The default terminal setting for most sites uses the "VT100" emulation. This is your default. Other terminal types can be set, such as ANSI, etc. If your backspace key displays a ^H character, change the "Options/Configuration" setting to "map BS to DEL".

To learn more about using Nifty Telnet, click on Help in the EWAN window.

This software does not install Nifty Telnet on Windows NT, but sets up the telnet button to launch NT's own telnet program.

Ping (not on NT)

The Ping program allows you to check for an echo response, or ping, from any other computer which is currently connected to the Internet. A response means that machine is online. A lack of response means either that the machine is down, or that a network problem exists somewhere between your location and theirs, preventing you from reaching it.

For Internet sites which should always be online, such as public providers, ftp sites, and the like, ping will let you know if there is a network problem preventing you from accessing that machine at this time. Sometimes you may be able to ping a site, and still not be able to access the service you are attempting, due to some temporary local problem at the site. Also be aware that some sites do not reply to ping requests.

Any time that you are online, any other machines on the Internet can ping you. Your Ping program doesn't need to be running for your machine to answer someone else's ping. Your TCP/IP stack (winsock) handles that automatically. When someone pings you, they are not connecting to your machine and there is not a security risk. No one can actually connect to your machine unless you choose to run specific server software allowing them to.

The WSPING program you are using also has an NSLOOKUP feature, or Name Server Lookup. Your provider allows you to use their DNS, or Domain Name Service, which is a program that allows you to lookup either host names or IP addresses by entering the counterpart, i.e.enter a valid IP to look up it's name, or vice versa. When you are using other Internet applications, this DNS service is used automatically by each program to locate the IP addresses of the services it uses.

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