Installation and New Features Guide (Windows)

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Registration and customer support
If a product registration card was included with your software purchase,
we encourage you to take the time to complete and mail it to us. In some
products an electronic version of the registration card is included for
your convenience.
Please refer to our Web site at http://www.filemaker.com
(http://www.filemaker.com/intl outside of North America) for information
concerning customer and technical support. At our Web site you will find
the FileMaker, Inc. Service Directory (detailing the service options
available to U.S. and Canadian customers), answers to frequently asked
questions, and access to extensive software libraries used by our technicians
to help find solutions. If you do not have access to the Web, you may learn
about the service options available to U.S. and Canadian customers by
calling 1-800-965-9090. For customers outside the U.S. or Canada, please
refer to the Technical Support sheet included with the software.
What you need to install FileMaker Pro
This guide gives instructions for installing the FileMaker Pro application
and associated files on your Windows or Mac OS computer. Before you
begin installing, you must know how you plan to use FileMaker Pro.
1 On a stand-alone computer—you want to use FileMaker Pro on your
computer, and you don’t plan to share files with other users over
a network.
1 With networking—you want to use FileMaker Pro on your computer,
and you plan to share FileMaker Pro files with other computers using
either TCP/IP or IPX/SPX networking software (Windows) or
TCP/IP, MacIPX, or AppleTalk networking software (Mac OS).
If you’re on a network You need to know which type of network you’re
using. If you’re not sure which network option to choose, check with
your network administrator before you begin installation.
Installation code
The installation code is a seventeen-digit number located on either a
two-part sticker attached to the front of the paper CD envelope cover
(North America) or a three-part sticker attached to a separate paper sheet
within the box (International).