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Tips & Techniques |
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Installing 3D Embroidery with Vista I decided to take all the precautions for a successful installation. 1. I shut down my Firewall by clicking on “start, control panel, security, windows firewall”. 2. Vista has a “user account control”. I clicked on “start, settings, control panel , user accounts” and turned off (unchecked) the “user account control”. I personally leave this off because I don’t have anyone but me at my computer so don’t have to worry about anyone making changes. (This is not on the XP computer) 3. I closed my antivirus. Mine is on the task bar and I right clicked and clicked on “Quit”. Yours may say close or exit. 4. Vista has a “side bar icon” on the taskbar. This includes the clock on the right side of the screen. I right clicked on that taskbar icon and shut it down too. If you place your cursor at each of those icons on the taskbar, a pop up will tell you what it is. (This is not on the XP) First, download the two drivers that I am directing you to. One is from Viking and the other is from Aladdin and they are both for Vista. I found I needed both of them. http://www.emnetsoftware.com/faqse/husqvarnavikingsoftware.asp?language=EN Then go to this site to get the Aladdin driver. Now once you have those downloaded, insert the 3D Embroidery CD and let it install and be sure to choose "all machines". Leave the disk in the computer for now.. Then double click on each of those files to install them. Now, plug in the dongle and see if the computer will recognize the new device and wait for it to tell you it's okay. Then double click on the 3D desktop icon to open the program. If you still get a dongle message, your disks may be old and didn't include the 7.25 update. Close 3D, and open up 3D Configure and click on Smart Update. Download the 7.25 update and the thread database files. The database file will include the Do It All Hoop. |
