
INSTALLING VISTA (both networked and stand-alone)

A] DOWNLOAD ViSta

B] DOUBLE-CLICK THE DOWNLOADED MODULE: 

C] INSTALLSHIELD RUNS to start the installation.
Do the following for Installshield's dialogs:
1 click yes to software agreement
2 enter your name and company
3 choose a directory (default recommended)
4 choose a program folder (default recommended)
5 click next to start copying files and create icons
6 Choose YES so that the program file will be launched
7 Click FINISH to complete the setup

D] VISTA RUNS to complete the installation.
You are immediately presented with the NETWORK INSTALL choice.
The first dialog box says to choose between
    SINGLE USER, NO NETWORK
    ALL OTHER SITUATIONS (i.e, NETWORK INSTALL)
If you choose SINGLE USER, NO NETWORK, ViSta installs and starts.
If you choose ALL OTHER SITUATIONS, you see dialog boxes. Do this: 
1 Choose ALL OTHER SITUATIONS for network install (as explained in the help).
2 Read the explanation and click NEXT.
3 Choose THE NETWORK for network install.
4 Make the appropriate choice (note that choices 3 and 4 have a long explanatory note about how to actually make these choices occur)
5 Enter the User's Default Directory (default recommended).
6 Click REVISE if you wish to make changes.
  Click INSTALL when everything is the way you want it.
7 Click ACCEPT on the summary dialog. Rarely do you want
  to change values here.

ViSta then completes the installation in the next few seconds.

SETTING VISTA INITIAL WINDOW SIZE/LOCATION FOR NT SERVERS

There are two alternate approaches to setting window location/size.
 The first approach is simplest.

 FIRST APPROACH
 For NT when ViSta is being setup to serve clients without special 
 privileges, the steps to create default window location/size are:
 1)  logon to NT as administrator.
 2)  start Vista with command line option -useHKLM.
 3)  set Vista main window the way users will see it on startup.

 SECOND APPROACH
 For NT when ViSta is being setup to serve clients without privileges, 
 Here are the steps to take to create a default window location/size,
 font type/size, directory structure and initial ViSta startup
 preferences (It really doesn't matter if you do steps 6-8, but if 
 you dont then at exit-time, unprivaledged users Vista will quietly
 attempt and fail to write the windowPos to HKLM).
 1)  Login to NT as administrator
 2)  Start Vista
 3)  Set useHKLM ini entry to 'yes' to enable writing window info
 4)  Set Vista main window the way users will see it on startup
 5)  Close Vista. Vista writes windowPos value to HKLM where users
     will pick it up when they run Vista.
 6)  Restart Vista.
 7)  Clear or delete the useHKLM ini entry. 
 8)  Close ViSta

Here is what ViSta does with HKLM and HCU on startup and shutdown:
Reading on startup:
CASE - Entry in HKLM    Entry in HCU    Behavior
            yes              No         use entries in HKLM
            yes              yes        use entries in HKLM
            no               yes        use entries in HCU
            no               no         provide default window size

Writing on shutdown:
CASE - useHLKM        Behavior
            yes       write entries to HKLM
            no        write entries to HCU  