Canon Studio Solution User guide

Studio Solution Install Guide

Table of Contents

System Requirements! 1

Supported Operating Systems! 1

Before you begin...! 1

Studio Solution Installation! 2

If you’ve already tried to install Studio Solution without success...! 2

Speciﬁcally for Windows XP users! 3

Installing .NET Framework! 3

Installing Studio Solution for all Windows users! 7

Navigating to the Studio Solution Install disk! 7

Installing Studio Solution! 8

Launching Studio Solution! 14

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Studio Solution is compatible for use on many recent Windows operating systems.

Studio Solution has also been designed to be used on Macintosh systems under virtual environments or separate partitions, such as Apple Boot Camp or Parallels.

Depending on which Windows version you will be running within the Mac environment, please follow the appropriate instructions in this document.

Operating System

Necessary Service Pack

Also required for installation

Windows 7

Windows Vista

SP1, and later

Windows XP

SP3

Microsoft .net framework v2.0, or higher

Before you begin...

You must be connected to the Internet to run the following Studio Solution install steps

Do not plug in the Studio Solution USB Dongle during the installation process

The included USB dongle is required to run and operate Studio Solution after the installation process is complete

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Studio Solution Installation

If you’ve already tried to install Studio Solution without success...

Studio Solution requires that both a version of Microsoft .NET, and Microsoft SQL Server be installed prior to installing Studio Solution.

Microsoft .NET is included with Windows Vista and Windows 7; but is not typically installed with Windows XP. .NET must be installed prior to installing Studio

Solution.

You will ﬁnd instructions for installing .NET in this guide.

Microsoft SQL Server will install with the Studio Solution software automatically providing that you chose the “OK” button when prompted.

If when prompted you pressed the “Cancel” button, you will need to “Uninstall” Studio Solution and then reinstall making sure that you press “OK” when

asked about installing the SQL Server software.

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Speciﬁcally for Windows XP users

“Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0” is required to be installed in your computer prior to the installation of Studio Solution.

Installing .NET Framework

The easiest way to ﬁnd this version is to do a Google Search for “.net framework version2.0”.

.NET Framework version 2.0 can also be found at the following link:

“http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en”

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This should bring you to this page:

Click on “Download”.

Follow the instructions in the Install Wizard.

Always chose “Run” when prompted

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Select “Run”

Select “Next”

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Check the box for “I accept the terms of the License Agreement”

Select “Install”

Select “Finish”

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Installing Studio Solution for all Windows users

For those running Windows XP, after installing the .NET framework, installing Studio Solution will be identical to those running Vista or Microsoft 7.

Navigating to the Studio Solution Install disk

Click on the Window’s “Start Menu”, and choose “My Computer”

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