Electrical Installations How To Guides
Please read before you proceed with the installation of Electrical Installations:
The installation instructions provided below are intended as general guidance and do not aim to provide detailed technical information. Some systems may not operate in exactly the same way, but the basic process remains the same. If in doubt, please consult your network administrator and/or technical support documentation.
All drive letters below are used as examples; drive letters on your system may vary. Ensure that all folders used for installing the software have sharing and permissions enabled (see 'installation overview' file in the ReadMe folder).
If the user is experiencing difficulties in installing the Electrical Installations, please contact the Software Support Team on the below contact details.
Submit a technical query to the Support Team by clicking here
Customer Digital Support Team
Telephone: 01865 888005
8.30-17.00 Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays)
Run from CD
1. Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2. CD-ROM will run automatically.
Some machines may not support autorun and the CD-ROM will not start automatically on these. If this is the case:
1. Go to ‘My Computer’ and double-click on your CD-ROM drive.
2. CD-ROM should run automatically now.
If it does not run, but instead displays a lit of the files on the CD-ROM, then:
1. Double-click on the file ‘launch’ or ‘launch.exe’.
2. The program should now launch.
Note: If you are running the program from the CD-ROM, you must have the CD-ROM in the drive (including if you are trying to exit).
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Full Local Install
It is recommended that you have 150MB free space on your PC for this option.
1. Insert the CD-ROM into the drive.
2. Open Windows Explorer
3. Create a new folder, e.g. on the hard disk (usually the c: drive)
4. Copy all the files and folders (including all subdirectories) from the CD-ROM into this folder
5. Remove the CD-ROM from the drive.
6. Right click on the 'launch' icon and choose 'create shortcut'.
7. A 'shortcut to launch' icon will then appear in your folder.
8. Drag the 'shortcut to launch' icon to your desktop. You can rename the icon by right clicking on the icon and choosing 'rename' and calling it something
more meaningful, e.g.
9. Double-click on the icon to launch the program.
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Network Install
This software is primarily designed to run from the CD, as such therefore, the best method of bulk delivery would be to use a CD server.
The content may also be copied to a server and links provided to "Launch.exe" on the server. Please be aware, however, that this may have implications with respect to performance and permissions issues relating to restricted users running executables directly from the server.
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