DietPower Help
When you installed Diet Power on your hard drive, the program put a household icon on your Windows desktop. The household icon looks like this:
To start up Diet Power, users normally 1) double-click the household icon and 2) choose their name from the User List.
Any user can bypass the second step, however, by equipping the desktop with a personal icon that takes him directly to his own files. (Diet Power will still prompt him to enter his password, however, if he's established one.) He can choose any of the following icons:
The same apple used as the household icon. (Not recommended, since it may cause confusion.) | |
A hand of bananas | |
Broccoli | |
A carrot | |
Two cherries | |
A cucumber | |
A bunch of grapes | |
A lemon | |
A pear | |
A plum | |
A giant strawberry | |
A turnip | |
A slice of watermelon |
To install a personal icon, first create a shortcut to your records¾
Make sure you know two things:
Your
user number. If you're the only user in your household, you're probably
User No. 1¾the Master
User. Otherwise, you can find your user number by looking at the User List.
Whether any other users have installed personal icons. If they have, you can avoid trouble by picking an icon different from theirs.
Close Diet Power. (You
will be installing your personal icon from the Windows desktop.)
Right-click on your desktop.
A little menu will open.
Choose New > Shortcut.
A "Create Shortcut" wizard will open.
Click the wizard's Browse
button and navigate to your Diet Power program file, called Diet.exe.
If you accepted the default when installing the program, the location
will be C:\Program Files\DietPower 4.4\Diet.exe.
When you've found Diet.exe,
highlight it by clicking once.
Click the Next button.
Windows will write the program file's location into the wizard, placing
it between quotation marks, like this: "C:\Program Files\DietPower
4.4\Diet.exe"
After the final quotation
mark, type a space followed by your user number.* For user number 2, this
would make the address read as follows: "C:\Program Files\DietPower\Diet.exe"
2
Click the Next button.
A "Select a Title for the Program" dialog will open.
Type in "My Personal
Diet Power," or whatever label you want to appear under your personal
icon.
Click the Finish button.
The wizard will close and your personal icon will appear on the desktop.
It will be an apple, but you can change that by continuing to step 12.
Right-click the personal
icon. A menu will open.
Choose Properties. A
Properties dialog will open.
If it isn't already on top, bring the Shortcut page to the top by clicking the Shortcut tab.
¾then choose an icon:
Click the Change Icon
button. The gallery of Diet Power icons will appear.
Click the icon you want,
to highlight it.
Click the gallery's OK
button. The gallery will disappear and the icon you've selected will replace
the apple on the Shortcut page.
Click OK again. The Properties dialog will vanish and the apple on the desktop will change into the personal icon you've chosen.
To start up Diet Power with your personal icon...
...double-click it, just as you would the household icon. Diet Power will open as usual¾except that now it won't bother you with the User List.
* |
If you've forgotten your user number, you can instead enter your first name as reported when you enrolled in Diet Power. Or, in the rare event that another user in your household has the same first name, you can enter the name of your personal subfolde.. A user named John who enrolled with the birth date 05/22/53, for instance, could add john to the target line. But if his son John, Jr., were also a user, the elder John would have to add john052253.) |
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Last Modified: 7/1/07