Viv uses an up-to-date version of Norton Anti-virus, regularly checks his computer and can guarantee that his database files have neither viruses nor malicious code.
Vocabulary database information page
Back of Notebook database information page
NOTE! These programs have been
designed to work on computers with Microsoft
Windows.
Firstly, if you use Internet
Explorer, add Viv's site to your list of trusted sites. To do this, click on
'Tools' at the top right of your screen, then select 'Internet options'. Click
once on the 'Security' tab and then click on the green tick with 'trusted
sites' written underneath. Now click the button 'Sites', uncheck the box which
only accepts https sites, and click on 'Add'. You can now select 'Close' and
'Ok' and move on to the next stage.
Viv's database programs have been designed for the Microsoft Access program, which is part of the Office Premium suite of programs. Microsoft has produced a program which will run on any Windows based computer called "Access Runtime". This program is too big to host on this web site, so go to the Microsoft site by clicking once on:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=4438 to download this program.
After downloading (it's a big file -
56.2
megabytes, so it may take some time to download).
Now click on the links below to download the Zip files to your desktop.
For Viv's Vocabulary Database click on:
For Viv's BON Database click
on:
You can now close Internet
Explorer and you should see two new files on your desktop ('AccessRuntime' and
'VVDBsetup.zip' if you have downloaded the Vocabulary Database program).
Right-click the file 'VVDBsetup' (or 'VBONsetup' for the BON Database) and select 'Extract all', then click on 'Extract'. A new window will now open. Close this Window and you should see a new folder called 'VVDBsetup' (looking like a half open book).
Click once on AccessRuntime
icon and copy it (Ctrl+C). Now click twice on the 'VVDBsetup' folder (not the
zipped version you downloaded), and then click twice on the folder 'Files'. Now
paste the AccessRuntime file into this folder by pressing Ctrl + V. You should
now see two files (AccessRuntime and Viv'sVocabDatabasever3-88), plus a setup
folder (Screenshot
for the Vocab Database and screenshot
for the BON Database). Close this window now.
On your desktop, double click on your extracted database folder (NOT the VVDBsetup
or VBONsetup zip files), and then double-click on the
file called "setup.exe" (Screenshot
for VVDB & screenshot
for VBON). Now follow the instructions (Screenshot
for VVDB & screenshot
for VBON) for installing the
program (I recommend using the 'Typical' installation procedure).
When installation has finished, You'll receive a message (Screenshot for VVDB & screenshot for VBON), and you can close the setup folder window and you'll see an icon on your desktop with "My Vocab Database" or "My BON Database". Double-clicking these smiley faces will open the programs.
The same process can be used for both the Vocabulary Database and BON Database, but you only need to download the AccessRuntime program once. The same file can be copied into the 'Files' folder of both unzipped programs.
You can now delete the setup
files and folders from your desktop or copy the files to a backup location (copying them to a cd-rom will enable you to install the database on other
computers).
Here is a summary of the steps
for using Viv's Vocab and BON databases:
1. Add Viv's site to the IE list of trusted sites.
2. Download the AccessRuntime file.
3. Download and unzip the
setup files.
4. Paste AccessRuntime
into the 'Files' folder of your unzipped database program.
5. Double click on the
'setup.exe' file to install the database.
6. Double click on the smiley
face icon to open the program.
7. Delete the setup files and folders or move them to a backup location.
For information about the teachers/language school versions of these databases go to this page.
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