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Vista warning! See here for special considerations when installing Sue Center on the newly released Microsoft Vista.

The main program file you downloaded is a standard .msi file (MicroSoft Install). Double clicking it will begin the installation process. It is very easy since there is nothing to decide - just accept all the defaults. The end result will be many files installed in C:\Program Files\Sue Center and a shortcut on the desktop named "Sue Center".

There are 3 important things to be aware of before starting Sue Center for the first time.

1. If you needed to become an administrator to install Sue Center you will also need to be that administrator to run it. I'm working on eliminating this requirement but am not there yet...
2. Before double-clicking on the Sue Center shortcut verify that the resolution of the monitor is set to the standard of 1024 by 768 (or larger). (Do this by right clicking on a blank area of the desktop and choosing "Properties". Then choose the "Settings" tab.) This is what the default configuration file expects. Once this is set you can double click on the Sue Center icon and try it out!
3. Microsoft XP (and certainly Vista) will pop up a cautionary warning dialog when Sue Center tries to access the internet for the first time. You need to make sure that you "Always Allow" the program sc.exe to access the network. If you don't do this, email and mailme and synonyms will not work at all.

When you send and receive email it will use the test account sue@logicalpoetry.com. You're welcome to do whatever testing you wish with the understanding that you may be testing at the same time as others.

When your initial evaluation is over and you want to start using it for real you'll need to do a one-time configuration for your own name and email settings.

Be sure that Sue Center itself is not running while you are doing the configuration below.

Start the configuration program with Start => Programs => Sue Center => Sue Center Configuration. The configuration page has the gory details on the multitude of things you can configure. Luckily there are only a very few things that are required to personalize it for the user:

• Under the 'General' tab enter the user's first Name and verify that the My Documents and My Pictures paths are correct. At the bottom put your local zip code so you can get your city's weather report with the "MW" MailMe command.
• Under the 'Email' tab you need to enter the user's Full Name and the details of the incoming and outgoing servers. This information is the same that you would enter into any standard email client such as Outlook. There is a button at the bottom of this tab to test and verify that the email settings are correct.
• Finally, you can change the name of the shortcut on the desktop so that it says "Charlie Center" or "Karen Center" or whatever your user's name is.

With the above you are good to go. There are a few optional things you can do to fine tune the configuration:

• Make the cursor black and large. Choose Start => Settings => Control Panel => Mouse and then the Pointers tab. Select the Scheme named "Windows Black (extra large)" and say "OK".
• Have Sue Center start up at boot time by dragging and dropping (copying) its shortcut into Start => Programs => Startup.

Next step? Read the Introduction help page and try everything!