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Metrohm tiamo 2.4 Installation User Manual

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NOTE

The following description applies for Windows 7 (64-bit version). It may
slightly vary for your system.

1 Open the Windows Device Manager. The corresponding device can be

found under Other devices.

2 Right-click on the device. The context menu opens.

3 In the context menu, select Update Driver Software…. A dialog win-

dow opens.

4 Select Browse my computer for driver software. The file selection

dialog opens.

5 Navigate to the installation folder of tiamo (default: C\Program Files

(x86)\Metrohm\tiamo).

6 In the installation folder, open the drivers subfolder. This folder contains

the Avantes subfolder, in which you can find the driver for the Avantes
spectrometer.

7 In the drivers subfolder, open the subfolder of the corresponding device

and select the driver file (*.inf).

8 Apply the selection with [OK]. A Windows safety prompt is displayed. In

order to install the driver, click on [Install].

9 After successful installation, close the Device Manager.

8 Adding additional licenses with Windows Vista

or newer

General
Since Windows Vista, Microsoft has introduced the UAC (User Account Con-
trol), which permits running tasks either as non-administrator or as administra-
tor (without changes of user, switching off or similar).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691%28WS.10%29.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.uac.aspx

This function can, however, cause difficulties with client-server installations of
tiamo.