How to download and install and Total Control Software update.

1.  Get on the internet

2.  In the address line type in the following address and click go.

http://www.tcsoft.com/update/update.htm

It will take you to the following page.

3.  Click on Download update. It will bring up the following box.

4.  Click Save. It will bring up the following Box.

This box is asking you where you want to save the update. You want to save the update to the DESKTOP on the SERVER COMPUTER.

5.  Double click on the Desktop and then click Save. It will go through a similar looking box like below:

This means it is downloading. Wait until the download box says that the download is COMPLETE. Then close out of the internet.

6.  Have everyone completely close out of Total Control Software. Have them also completely close out of all programs associated with Total Control Software like Partsmart, Mercury EPC, Honda In Parts, Yamaha Parts pro etc….

7.  Double click on the update.exe icon on your server desktop. It will bring up the following box.

8. Click Run. It will bring up the following box.

8.  Click next; it will bring you to the following box.

9.  Click next it will bring you to the following box.

10.  This box is the most important box!!!! Where it says Destination Folder it must say the correct Winboat folder on your server computer. If you do not know where your winboat folder is on your server. The cancel the update. On your desktop is and Parts Service and Inventory icon or a Finance and Insurance Icon. Right Click your mouse on one of those icons. Left click your mouse on PROPERTIES. It will look like this.

Notice that in the Target on the above example it says:

D:\Winboat\Inv.exe

The place I would run any TCS update to would be D:\Winboat

This is what you need to find out so that you can run the update. What does it say in the Target minus the inv.exe or the unitfi.exe part. Now go back to step 10.

11.  You are now at the last next box and it looks like this.

12.  Click next one more time and it will go through a processing and converting and then you can click finish. Once you click finish it HAS TO go through creating a backup and doing another processing on the screen.

IF IT DOES NOT GO THROUGH A BACK UP AND PROCESSING IT DID NOT RUN THE UPDATE TO THE CORRECT WINBOAT FOLDER AND YOU MUST START ALL OVER.