Installation guide

Chapter 1
4 Sniffer Portable
Uninstalling Previous Versions of Sniffer
Portable
Installing Sniffer Portable 4.8 on top of an existing Sniffer Portable 4.5 or 4.7
release is not supported. Only upgrades from an existing Sniffer Portable
4.70.5xx installation are supported. To install on top of an earlier Sniffer
Portable 4.5 or 4.7 release, uninstall the earlier and then install Sniffer Portable
4.8. Future updates of Sniffer Portable 4.8 can be installed on top of an existing
Sniffer Portable 4.8 installation. However, downgrades from a new version of
Sniffer Portable 4.8 to an earlier version of Sniffer Portable 4.8 is not
supported.
NOTE: If Sniffer Voice is installed on the target machine, it must be
uninstalled before you uninstall the Sniffer Portable software.
To uninstall a previous version of Sniffer Portable:
1 Log in to the Sniffer PC machine with Administrator privileges.
2 Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
3 In the Add/Remove Programs window that appears, is there an entry
for Sniffer Voice?
 If yes — Uninstall Sniffer Voice and reboot the computer before
uninstalling. Then access the Add/Remove Programs window
again (
Step 2) and uninstall the Sniffer Portable software.
 If no — Select the entry for the Sniffer Portable software and click
Add/Remove.
4 During the uninstallation, the wizard will ask you if you would like to
remove unused shared files. Click Yes to all to remove all unused
shared files.
5 Reboot the computer.
The target PC is now ready for installation of the Sniffer Portable software.
Upgrading from Sniffer Portable 4.7.5
If you are upgrading from Sniffer Portable 4.7.5, please note the following
settings are migrated during the Sniffer Portable 4.8 installation:
 Monitor, capture, and display filters
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