Instructions for download and setup
If you are a novice at downloading files or using COMPMNGR, you should print and study these instructions. To acquire the COMPMNGR program and its associated files, you download a setup program file named SetupCompmngrV3.exe and run it. This file is not the same as the COMPMNGR program, but rather has the program and associated files packed into it. When you run the downloaded setup file, it does the complete installation for you in one step. All you have to do is remember in what folder you saved SetupCompmngrV3.exe during the download process, so you can find it to run it. If you save it in the Desktop folder you don't even have to remember that, since a desktop icon will be created for you.
To start the download process you click on the text "Download SetupCompmngrV3 now" following these instructions. After you click on that text your web browser software will probably present you a couple of screens in order for you to confirm that you really want to download the file to your computer's hard disk and to allow you to select the downloaded file's location (i.e. folder or directory) on the hard disk. The exact form of these screens depends on the web browser software you are using. The first screen may offer you the options of running the program in place or saving (downloading) to your hard disk. You do not want to open or run the program in place. You do want to download to your hard disk. The second screen is most probably a version of the Windows file dialog box, which allows you to select the folder on your hard disk into which you want the download file to go. Your best bet is to download it to your Desktop folder, as mentioned above, so that an icon is created for it; then all you have to do is double click on the icon to run the setup program. The download requires around ten minutes on a dial-up connection.
After you download the SetupCompmngrV3 setup file, you run it either by double clicking on its desktop icon (if you downloaded to the Desktop folder) or using Start/Run and browsing until you locate SetupCompmngrV3.exe. You can also use the My Computer file manager program to locate and run the setup program. When the setup program is run, a very simple dialog box pops up to allow you to enter the location (the disk drive and folder) where you want to store the COMPMNGR program and its associated files. A default location is provided, and you should use it unless you have a compelling reason not to. So all you really need to do is click on the OK/Save button, but first make sure that your current version of COMPMNGR (if any) is not running or the new version will not be installed. The setup program does four things: it creates the folder (if it doesn't already exist), it unpacks some packed files, it puts all the files in the folder, and it offers to create a desktop icon for the COMPMNGR program.
You can run the COMPMNGR program by double clicking on its desktop icon or using Start/Run and browsing until you locate COMPMNGR.EXE. You can also use the My Computer file manager program to locate and run the program. The first time you run the program, you should go to the main menu item File, then Open, and select a file to open. Unless you have used the program before, the only file available to open will be the demonstration database (named DEMODATA); the password for the demonstration data is RED. Then you should go to the main menu item Help and read about using the program.
COMPMNGR must be configured (set up) for your competition before you begin to enter your dance entry and purchase data. Instructions for doing this can be found in the COMPMNGR help system under the index heading "Set up a new competition", but before you do anything you should read the help system topic "Getting started" and its links to several other important topics. As a general rule, a COMPMNGR setup should never be done "from scratch". You should always use either the database from your previous competition or the sample database (named DEMODATA) included with the download as a starting point, then follow the help system instructions for opening that database, making a copy under a new name, switching to (opening) the new database you created by the COMPMNGR copy process, deleting the previous dance entries and purchases from the copied database, and modifying the database setup as required. Don't make the mistake of putting entries for an upcoming competition into the database for a previous competition or into DEMODATA.
If you have troubles getting COMPMNGR up and running click on .