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Running Lightning/2000
After a successful installation, click the “Start” button, click
“Programs”. The Lightning/2000 icon will be at or near the
end of the “Programs” menu. Click this icon to start
Lightning/2000.
Important: if you are running Lightning/2000 under Windows
2000 or Windows XP, and using the Boltek ISA StormTracker, you
will first need to install the device driver. Instructions for this procedure
are in Chapter 1.
When running Lightning/2000 on Windows 7 or Windows 8
systems, it is possible that you will need administrator
privileges to run the program. You can cause any program to
run with administrator privileges by right-clicking on the
program’s executable and then clicking on the
“Compatibility” tab and then checking the “Run this program
as an administrator” box. The Lightning/2000 executable is
named “lightning.exe”. It is normally located in the folder
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Aninoquisi\Lightning2000.
The first thing you need to do is to install your background
map that was supplied when you purchased Lightning/2000.
When installing Lightning/2000 from a CD, the largest map
file on the CD will automatically be installed. If you wish to
install a different map, choose File | Install map… from the
main menu and then pick your map file. If your
Lightning/2000 purchase was via a download of the installer
and a ZIP file that contains your map, you will have to extract
the map file from the ZIP before you can install the map.
The first time Lightning/2000 runs, it will read settings from
the default preferences files. The windows will then be
arranged so that each window is visible (except for the
Summary , NOWCast, Records, Analysis, and Storm Statistics
windows), and no window spills outside the frame of the
main window.