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DipZoom


Deep Internet Performance Zoom

 

Instruction For Microsoft Winddows Vista


Installation Notes For Microsoft Windows
  1. Make sure you have Sun Java Runtime Environment 5.0 or later installed. To install or upgrade your Java runtime, go to Sun Java J2SE 5.0, click on "download" in the "Java Runtime Environment" section, and choose the self-extracting file to download according to your system. Then, download and execute the file.

    1. Download the DipZoom package and save it in the directory of your choice.

    2. Extract the DipZoom package (double-click on the dipzoom.zip file in a graphic window or type "unzip dipzoom.zip" from the command line). At this point, the subdirectory called "dipzoom" is created. (The file readme.txt in this directory provides information on how to run a dipzoom client)

  2. Change directory into "dipzoom\window" (Type "cd dipzoom\window" from the command line).

  3. Run the mpsetup.jar file by double-clicking the file in a graphic window or typing "java -jar mpsetup.jar" from command line.

  4. Open regedit by typing regedit from the command line.

  5. Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

    Add a new String value with value "name" equal to dipzoom_mp and the value "data" to be the following, where <path> should be replaced with the directory where you put your dipzoom_mp.jar file

    "<path>\dipzoom_mp.jar" dipzoom_mp -d "<path>" -- "<path>"


  6. Restart the computer.

Uninstallation Notes
  1. Use Window utility called "regedit" to delete the following entry from registration table

  2.       HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\dipzoom_mp

  3. Delete dipzoom.zip file and dipzoom directory (along with all files in it) from the directory where you saved the dipzoom package in step 1.

Running the Client GUI application

Change directory into "dipzoom/src" and run "dipzoom_client.jar" by double-clicking the file in a graphic window or typing "java -jar dipzoom_client.jar" from command line.