Several choices that you can make in the program cause a web browser window to be brought up. This happens when you click on the dealer’s web-page link in the bottom window of the Item Details display, in order to show you the web site of the dealer.
A web browser is also invoked to show you any of the informational pages that you can select via the Information menu on the Search Screen window.
The program tries to automatically locate the default web browser on your system when it needs to open a browser window. It does this using standard information stored in the Windows Registry. Occasionally a computer will be configured with irregular or missing Registry entries relating to the default web browser. In this case, the program will fail to launch the browser, and you will see an error message (typically: "Can’t launch browser …").
Following is a description of how to work around this problem, should it occur on your system.
1) Locate the full pathname of the executable program that launches your web browser. You can usually do this most easily by locating the shortcut used to launch your browser and looking at its properties to find the "Target" command used to start the program. Though the exact pathname will depend upon where the browser is installed on your system, common locations are as follows:
· For Intenet Explorer (IE):
"C:\Program Files\Plus!\Microsoft Internet\IEXPLORE.exe"
· For Netscape:
"C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\netscape.exe"
2) Find the directory where the AMPR program is installed. Normally this is:
"C:Program Files\AMPR"
3) There is a sub-folder named "Home" in the AMPR installation directory, and in this sub-folder there is a file named prefs.cgl. Open this file with a text editor, such as Notepad.
4) Add a line at the bottom of this file, with the following form:
AMPR_browser_command : "<full pathname of the browser executable>"
For example, if the pathname for your browser is the Internet Explorer path shown in step (1), above, the line you would enter would be:
AMPR_browser_command : "C:\Program Files\Plus!\Microsoft Internet\IEXPLORE.exe"
Note: You must enclose the name of the command in double-quotes, as shown. Also, the first part of the line, AMPR_browser_command, must be spelled exactly as shown, with upper-case AMPR, underscores, and all other letters lower-case.
5) Save the prefs.cgl file Re-start the AMPR program and see if launching of the browser now works. If you still are unable to get the browser the launch, contact user support at the e-mail or phone number shown on the back of the CD-ROM installation instructions booklet (in the jewel case in which the CD-ROM was shipped).