INSTALLING TRAVELLER UNIVERSE
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I   ODBC
II  Multiple CPUs
III System Restore
IV  Fast User Switching
V   Intel Xeon CPUs



I   ODBC
    The Windows environment must  be  Windows 98  (or  later)  or
    Windows NT4 with Service Pack 4 (or later).  In addition your
    system must be set up to use ODBC data sources (look  for  an
    ODBC data sources icon in  Control Panel).  If  this  is  not
    already set up on your machine  you  will  need  to  get  the
    appropriate copies  of  DCOM  and  MDAC  from  Microsoft  and
    install them first.



II  Multiple CPUs
    Users of WinNT (Windows NT4, Windows 2000,and Windows XP) who
    have more than one CPU in their machine need to be  aware  of 
    the following:  InterBase is written to work on a single CPU,
    there is a problem where WinNT will keep reassigning CPUs  to
    InterBase and this will slow InterBase down.  To correct this
    you need to set the CPU affinity of the InterBase process  to
    a single  CPU.  This  can  be  done  with  a  utility  called
    "IBAffinity", which can be found at
        http://www.ait-augsburg.de/download/ib_affinity.zip



III System Restore
    Users of Windows XP need to be aware of  the  following:  the
    System Restore feature in  Windows XP Professional  backs  up
    key files whenever you change them.  Unfortunately it  thinks
    that InterBase databases are key files ... so  everytime  you
    start Universe it will back up its database (which  can  take
    time).  There are two workarounds ... you can turn  off  this
    feature of Windows completely,  or  you  can  turn  off  this
    feature on the partition or hard disk on which InterBase  and
    Universe are installed.

    1  Turn off system restore. 
       a  Go to "Start" 
       b  Right click on "My Computer" 
       c  Select "Properties" 
       d  Select the "Restore" tab 
       e  Check the "Turn off System Restore on all drives" box 

    2  Install InterBase and Universe on a different  hard  drive
       or partition and turn off Restore on the drive. 
       a  Go to "Start" 
       b  Right click on "My Computer" 
       c  Select "Properties" 
       d  Select the "Restore" tab 
       e  In "Drive settings" area select the drive you installed
          InterBase and Universe.
       f  Select the "Settings..." button
       g  Check "Turn off System Restore on this drive" 



IV  Fast User Switching
    There is a second issue for Windows XP:  Fast User Switching.
    InterBase  can  only  be  installed  by  a  member   of   the
    Administrator group and when Fast User Switching  is  enabled
    only a member of that  group  can  use  InterBase.  The  only
    known workaround is not to use Fast User Switching.



V   Intel Xeon CPUs
    If your machine  uses  Intel  Xeon  processors,  you  should
    disable hyperthreading in the system BIOS.



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