Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 99
(trial edition)

How to install Encarta 99 trial edition

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Overview
Encarta Encyclopedia, the world's #1 selling encyclopedia for the 5th straight year, delivers a unique mix of authoritative content, engaging technology, and innovative education tools to create a powerful learning resource. With the 1999 edition, Encarta Encyclopedia further extends its lead with a ground breaking new interface that makes it easy to seamlessly move between detailed encyclopedia articles, original source documents, editorially selected web sites, not to mention all the engaging multimedia that has made Encarta Encyclopedia famous.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Information: Includes more than 35,000 articles and thousands of stunning multimedia elements, including pictures, video, audio, and animation clips.
• Innovative Technology: Our powerful search engine and a completely redesigned interface will make you want to explore.
• The #1 selling encyclopedia for the 5th straight year.

Encarta Encyclopedia is the interactive, multimedia encyclopedia that turns your personal computer into a rich resource of information, education, and entertainment. Whether you're doing serious research or just browsing, the encyclopedia's integrated features help you to explore any topic.

In Encarta Encyclopedia Trial Edition you'll find:

• More than 5,000 new or updated articles for this edition.
• Media including images, sounds, videos, and Interactive charts.
• Links to more than 8,500 informative sites on the World Wide Web.
• Article updates and Web Links you can download using a modem.
• Virtual Tours with panoramic views of exciting places to explore.
• New InterActivities.
• Interactive Collages.
• Research Organizer to help you to collect and organize information for reports and other research projects.
• Encarta Resource Centre, providing ideas and advice on using Encarta as a learning resource for all ages.
• The Timeline of World History.
• Atlas.
• The MindMaze game.
• Topic Trails.
• Sidebars, including Guest Essays
• Call-Out Quotes
• Further Reading
• Closed Captions

New features in the Trial Edition include:

• More Content
• Encarta 99 brings you more than 5,000 new or updated articles.
• New Virtual Tours
• Enjoy many new interactive Virtual Tours. Virtual Tours are exciting, 360-degree panoramic views of interesting places and historic sites. You can tour a Space Shuttle, or discover still photos and related articles on a visit to Westminster Abbey.
• New Closed Captions
• To view Closed Captions for audio, video, and animation in Encarta, click Closed Captions on the Options menu, and then click On.
• New Call-Out Quotes
• Call-Out Quotes are brief tantalizing excerpts from articles that are displayed beneath the media frame in the main Article window.
• New Encarta Resource Centre
• Encarta Resource Centre brings together software and information to enhance the use of Encarta to support learning and research. The disc includes the Research Organizer tool; Internet Explorer 4; Encarta for Life-Long Learning, with information for learners of all ages, as well as grids of common examination topics; and a Teacher’s Activity Guide.
• New Article Sidebars
• As you browse through Encarta articles, you'll find hundreds of new article Sidebars containing guest essays, news analysis, literary excerpts, and more.
• More Links to the World Wide Web

With more than 8,500 links to the Web, Encarta helps you to find up-to-the-minute information on the Web. You can also use the Web to keep your encyclopedia current with monthly updates. Use these Online Features:

• Yearbook updates attach to articles so your encyclopedia is always current. Updates are free.
• Web Links help you to jump to selected sites on the Web that relate to a particular subject in the encyclopedia. Thousands of links are included on your CD-ROM, and hundreds of new links are available every month, free of charge.
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How to Install Encarta 99 Trial Edition
System Requirements:
Pentium or higher microprocessor
16 MB of RAM
24 MB for Win NT; 45 MB of hard disk space
2X CD ROM drive
Super VGA, 256 color monitor supporting 640 x 480 or higher resolution
Windows 95 or later, or Windows NT 4.0 operating system or later
Requires local bus video with 1 MB or more of video memory, Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft Intellimouse, or compatible pointing device. Also recommended: 16 bit sound card with speakers or headphones.

Check out the microsoft site for more information about Encarta Encyclopedia 99.

Encarta 99 takes up the entirety of disk 2 in this set. To install Encarta 99 simply:

1. Insert Disc 2 into your CD-ROM drive. This should Autostart the setup program for Encarta 99

2. If you have Autostart disabled, open My Computer and double-click on the CD-ROM drive icon.
3. Double click the file setup.exe to begin the installation.

Then follow the instructions that appear.