Downloading the Cruising Guide to Vanuatu and it's companion guide.
Here are instructions for downloading and installing the guides on your computer.
When you make your payment you will immediately be transferred to a page with two links for downloading the cruising guide and the companion activities and tourism guide. An email is sent to you with the same links, detailed download and installation instructions and your Order Number. Be sure to keep the order number because you will need it for activation of the cruising guide.
THESE LINKS ARE ONLY VALID FOR 24HRS.
1. DOWNLOAD THE CRUISING GUIDE FILE
The Cruising Guide file is called VANUATUCRUISING.ZIP and is 297MB.
The Companion Activities Guide is called VANUATU.ZIP and is 561MB.
IF THE COMPUTER YOU USE TO DOWNLOAD THE FILE IS NOT THE ONE YOU PLAN TO USE WHEN ACTUALLY CRUISING, DOWNLOAD OR COPY THE VANUATUCRUISING.ZIP FILE ONTO A USB KEY AND TRANSFER IT TO THE COMPUTER YOU INTEND TO USE IT ON. THE GUIDE WILL ONLY BE ACTIVATED FOR ONE COMPUTER!
The companion guide does not need to be activated and you can use it on any computer you own.
In any case, when you start the download, be sure you check to see where the file is being downloaded to.
2. UNZIP THE FILES FOR THE GUIDE ONTO THE COMPUTER YOU WILL USE WHEN CRUISING
VANUATUCRUISING.ZIP and VANUATU.ZIP contain all the files and folders for these two guides.
Once the download is finished, you need to unzip the guides onto the computer you intend to activate it on by double clicking on the downloaded files.
The unzip program will ask you where to save it - select the C: drive ON THE COMPUTER YOU INTEND TO USE WHILE CRUISING and click OK. For example the location to unzip the files to will be shown as C:/CRUISINGVANUATU and the Activity guide will unzip to a folder called C:/VANUATU on the hard disk drive of the computer you will use when cruising.
This does not "install" any programs on your computer so they will not appear in your "programs" list.
You need to make a shortcut to the programs and put it on your desktop to start the guides.
3. PUT A SHORTCUT ONTO YOUR DESKTOP
Use your windows file system manager to go to the folder - C:/CRUISINGVANUATU You will find a “shortcut” to the program - VANUATUCRUISING.EXE in that folder. Drag the shortcut onto your desktop and you are ready to register the guide.
If you have unzipped the CRUISINGVANUATU folder onto another drive (e.g. not C:/) then you will have to make a new shortcut to the VANUATUCRUISING.EXE program file and put it on your desktop.
The companion guide is in a folder called VANUATU and there is a shortcut to VANUATU.EXE in that folder.
4. ACTIVATE THE CRUISING GUIDE.
The Cruising Guide to Vanuatu needs to be activated. Be sure to activate it on the computer you intend to use while cruising. For details on activation click here.
After activation you can quickly discover how to use all the features of guide by clicking on the ? icon.
5. MAKE A BACKUP CD
You should copy the contents of the folder to a CD as a backup - you could then run the program from the CD, but the guide works much faster from your hard drive.
To make a CD version of the guide navigate to the C:/CRUISINGVANUATU folder, open it, and select all of the files and folders that you find there (you can do this by holding down the Ctrl + a keys together) then right click on any of the highlighted files and select "send to" and then your CD/DVD drive.
Follow the wizard's directions to make the CD (an ordinary blank CD-R disk will work). To delete the program from your computer just delete the folder (the guide will continue to work from the backup CD).
6. ACTIVATION ON A BACKUP-COMPUTER OR A NEW COMPUTER
For information on setting up the guide on more than one computer see http://www.cruising-vanuatu.com/deactivation.html |
