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All Users.WINDOWS, or administrator, or any other Documents and Settings sub-folders for
other users on this workstation until you locate the nsdefaults.ini file. It’s possible that the
workstation was configured so that a different “user” folder is the default for application data
for Nuance and other applications.
These .ini files are now considered customized files, because they now they contain the custom
settings that will be applied to each of the DNS client installations you deploy. Retrieve the
nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini files and copy them to a directory where you can access them
from the other client computers. (If you did not run natspeak.exe on the command line, you do
not find a roamingdef.ini file; in that case, you can use a roaming.ini file from an existing instal-
lation whose settings you’d like to replicate. If you did not change the Network Settings, you
do not need a roamingdef.ini or roaming.ini file at all.)
11. When you have located the nsdefaults.ini file, verify that your option settings have been
changed. Double-click the nsdefaults.ini file to open it in a text editor. You should see values
defined for the options you changed.
Example: If the Capitalize ‘allergy’ and ‘allergies’ as ‘ALLERGY’ and ‘ALLERGIES’ option has
been turned on, the nsdefaults.ini file contains this statement:
12. Include the newly created nsdefaults.ini file in your MSI package to distribute the file to all user
workstations where Dragon is installed.
For more on natspeak.exe command line options, refer to natspeak Command Line Switches.
You are now ready to install the same configuration you just established here onto other com-
puters.
Note: If you are installing Dragon on more than one client computer and over a network, you can
use the same .ini files with the MSI Installer (msiexec). You also use SMS Server or another
server-based program that pushes the installation out to several clients at once. Even if you are
installing from a server, you should run through the initial installation before you carry out the
administrative installation. Then, for more information on installing from a server, proceed to
Overview of Pushing Client Installation from Server.
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