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System requirements

The following lists the minimum system requirements for using Sound Forge and Screenblast Sound Forge:

•400 MHz processor

•64 MB RAM, 128 MB recommended

•60 MB hard-disk space for program installation

•Microsoft Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP

•Microsoft Windows®-compatible sound card

•CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)

•Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)

•DirectX® Media 8.0 Runtime (included on CD-ROM)

•Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 or later to view online help (version 5.0 included on CD-ROM)

Installing Sound Forge

The install utility, setup.exe, located on the Sound Forge CD-ROM, creates the necessary folders and copies all files required to operate Sound Forge.

Note: Sound Forge requires Microsoft DirectX 8.0 or later and Internet Explorer 4.0 or later. The setup program alerts you if either is not detected on your system and prompts their installation from the Sound Forge CD-ROM.

1.Place the Sound Forge CD-ROM in your system’s CD-ROM drive. AutoPlay launches the Setup menu.

Note: If AutoPlay is not turned on, click the Start button and choose Run. Type “D:\setup.exe”, where D is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.

2.Click Install, and follow the instructions in the dialogs to complete the installation.

Getting help within Sound Forge

You can access two varieties of help within Sound Forge:

•Online help

•What’s This? help (also referred to as context-sensitive help)

Online help

To access online help, choose Contents and Index from the Help menu.

Press F1 .

Note: To view online help, Internet Explorer 4.0 or later must be installed on your system. If you purchased the boxed version of Sound Forge, Internet Explorer version 5.0 is included on your CD-ROM.

INTRODUCTION

CHP. 1