Installation

SuperSpice installs files in two main locations. These are, a "Program Files" directory and a "Program Application directory". These locations are different depending on operating systems, e.g. XP, Vista, Windows 7.

The typical default installation path for the SuperSpice.exe executable and its associated files are:

64 bit version on 64 bit machines: C:\Program Files\AnaSoft\SuperSpice

32 bit versions on 64 bit machines: C:\Program Files (x86)\AnaSoft\SuperSpice

32 bit version on 32 Bit machines: C:\Program Files\AnaSoft\SuperSpice

The typical default installation path for the SuperSpice system data files executable and its associated files are:

Windows 7/Vista: C:\ProgramData\AnaSoft\Default

C:\ProgramData\AnaSoft\Examples

C:\ProgramData\AnaSoft\Default\System

The program files are never modified after installation. The program data files are changed by SuperSpice as needed every time SuperSpice is ran.

The actual locations of these directories may be obtained by viewing the "Program Options" (blue toolbar PO button) dialog tab, SpiceEngine\Program Folders tab.

On some systems it may be necessary to change the file permissions for the C:\ProgramData\AnaSoft\ folder so that users can write to that folder. e.g. when running the examples. Microsoft have the habit of continually introducing new restrictions on computers not belonging to them. The application data folder should be writeable for anyone, but often isn't.

If it is desired to move SuperSpice to an alternative location that does not use two separate main folder trees, the allusrappdata.tst file in the SuperSpice.exe folder can be renamed/removed. SuperSpice looks for the presence of this empty file to know to look for SuperSpice system files in the Windows Application Data Folder. If this file is not found by SuperSpice, SuperSpice will look for these folders local to its own folder. Then all SuperSpice files can be moved to say:

C:\Spice\SuperSpice\

C:\Spice\SuperSpice\Default\

C:\Spice\SuperSpice\Examples\

C:\Spice\SuperSpice\System\

SuperSpice.pwd

The unlocking password file, SuperSpice.pwd must be placed in the SuperSpice.exe directory (folder). As noted above, this is typically:

C:\Program Files\AnaSoft\SuperSpice\

The SuperSpice.pwd will overwrite the existing demo SuperSpice.pwd file. SuperSpice must not be running when the unlocking password file is replaces the demo password file.

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