1. Click icon to download installer

                                        InstallVZones.exe

2. Save to your desktop, so you can find the file later.

Windows Minimum Recommended System Configuration

• System Configuration Summary:
• CPU:
• System Software:
• RAM Requirement:
• Hard Drive:
• Display:
• Modem:
• TCP:
• Web Browsers:

System Configuration Summary:

Before using VZones, you will need TCP/IP access to the Internet and an Internet email address. You will also need to have installed one of the supported Web Browsers.

CPU:

Minimum Requirements:

Required: Pentium 90

Suggested: Pentium 200

System Software:

Recommended: Windows 98

Supported: Windows NT/2000

Minimum Supported: Windows 95

VZones is a 32 bit application and will run as-is on Windows 95 or Windows NT.

To run 32 bit applications on earlier Windows versions (3.1 or 3.11) you must install the Win32s DLLs.

If you receive this error message when you run or install VZones:

This program cannot be run in DOS mode

Win32s is not installed or is not installed properly.

Win32s version 1.25 is the minimum level for VZones client.

Win32s 1.30, installed by PW1118.EXE, is highly recommended. The PW1118.EXE is available for download from the VZones web site at: http://www.vzones.com/download/clients/win3.1/pw1118.exe

Information for downloading and installing Win32s directly from Microsoft is available from the Microsoft website in the document "Microsoft Win32s Upgrade"

Microsoft has a troubleshooting guide,"How to Troubleshoot Win32s Installation Problems" that includes instructions on how to reinstall it, including making sure you get all the old installation off first (recommended).

This document is also available from the Compuserve Knowledge Base. Go to the knowledge base (GO MSKB), select Quick Search by document number and enter Q106715.

If you are using Windows 3.1 or 3.11 with Win32s and experience problems, we recommend that you contact Microsoft support. Up to date contact information for Microsoft support may be found at

http://support.microsoft.com/support/.

RAM Requirement:

(including web browser, See Notes):

Strongly Recommended: 64 MB or more

Minimum: 32 MB

If you are using VZones on systems with less than the recommended memory, some performance improvements may be achieved by closing all other application (except your web browser) while using VZones, and by reducing the memory cache used by your web browser.

In Netscape Navigator the memory cache setting may be changed by selecting the Network Preferences item under the Options menu, thus:

Option->Network Preferences

and selecting the Cache tab.

MS Internet Explorer does not have a memory cache setting option; however IE has a smaller memory footprint than Netscape Navigator, so if you follow our other recommendations, you should have acceptable system performance.

Hard Drive:

100 MB during installation, 100 MB minimum installed (See Notes)

The Hard Drive requirement only covers the space needed for the VZones software and the initial data files. Each world that you visit will download custom resources that will take additional hard drive space.

If you need to recover hard drive space temporarily, you may delete files from the WSRES sub-directory of the VZones installation directory.

When you next visit a world that uses some of the deleted resources, that world's resources will be downloaded, and the WSRES directory will grow again.

Display:

Recommended resolution: 1024*768

Minimum resolution: 800*600

256 colors

While VZones will run with more than 256 colors, the performance will be maximized when a standard 256 color palette driver is used. Most higher color resolution display cards include a 256 color driver as well.

See your display card's documentation for details on selecting the correct driver.

It is possible to run using a standard 16 color VGA display; however, the full range of colors will not be available and the display and response time will be degraded.

Modem:

14,400 baud Hayes compatible or faster (See Notes)

While connection can be maintained using a 9600 baud modem, the periodic downloads of new objects and artwork will take a very, very long time.

TCP:

Winsock compliant

Web Browsers:

Recommended: Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later

Supported: Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 for Windows 95or later (32 bit versions)

Note: Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows 3.11 (16 bit versions) does not have browser features required for VZones to perform in world web links or Web Touring, either leading or following.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS