WinPortrait 2.0 for Windows 95

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Supported Graphics Chips

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The WinPortrait 2.0 drivers support the following

chipsets for Windows 95:



ATI             mach8, mach32,mach64 PCI or VLB (not Mach64 ISA)

Cirrus Logic    GD5426,5428,5429,5430,5434

Compaq          QVision 1024, QVision 1280

Diamond         Viper

Headland        HT-209

S3              924,801,805,864,868,928,964,968,

		Trio (805i,864,928,964,Trio HiColor)

Tseng Labs      ET4000







Non-Supported Graphics Chips

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The WinPortrait 2.0 drivers DO NOT support the following

chipsets for Windows 95:



ATI             Mach64 on ISA-bus boards

Compaq          QVision 2000

IBM (PS/2)      XGA-2

Matrox          MGA

S3              928 PCI

Weitek          P9100

Trident         All

Western Digital All

XTech (IIT)     AGX-014/015

Notebooks       All







WinPortrait Features

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* Resolution and Font Size -- Windows 95



   Since Windows 95 allows dynamic resolution change without restarting,

   the WinPortrait Prefrences Applet is not used.



   To change resolutions, click the right mouse button anywhere on the

   desktop to open the Display Properties dialog; move to the "Settings"

   tab.  You will be able to choose between all of the resolutions supported

   by your board/driver combination, in Landscape and Portrait orientations.

   When you use the Display Properties dialog to change resolution or

   orientation, you will be changing the starting resolution and orientation

   for your next Windows 95 session as well.



   Font size is also selectable at this location.



* Rotating the Screen Image



   The recommended method of rotating the screen image is to use the 

   default WinPortrait Hot-Key Combination of <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<R>.

   You may change the Hot-Key combination by clicking with the right

   mouse button on the WinPortrait Rotate TaskBar Button, and

   selecting "PREFERENCES" from the menu.



   Also, the WinPortrait Rotate TaskBar Button can be used as an

   alternate method for rotating your screen image.  Click once

   with the left button on the WinPortrait Rotate TaskBar Button

   to rotate the screen image.



* HiColor Support



   The WinPortrait HiColor driver works with S3 based boards using the

   805i, 864, 928 or Trio chip with 2MB or more of video memory.  This

   driver allows applications to display 65,536 colors at once.  Therefore,

   the HiColor driver should only be used with specific applications where

   this support is needed.  For general business and word processing use,

   this driver should not be used since the performance is about half of

   the standard (256 color) driver.



* REGISTRY Change -- Windows 95



   For Windows 95, the Registry takes the place of SYSTEM.INI and other

   Windows 3.1 files.  Since the WinPortrait drivers are installed by the

   built-in Windows 95 process, all changes to the Registry should be

   transparent to the user.



* Refresh Meter



   The WinPortrait installation includes the WinPortrait Refresh Meter,

   an application that creates an analog meter to measure your vertical

   refresh rate.  This Windows application is located on Disk 2, and is

   automatically installed in your Windows directory.  You can check the

   refresh rate by choosing from the Program Manager: File, Run, and

   typing "REFRESH". For a flicker free image, the refresh rate should

   be 70 Hz or above.



* Automatic Refresh Rate Set



   The WinPortrait drivers now support automatic setting of the vertical

   refresh rate for selected board/chip combinations.  Currently, the

   following chipsets and boards support auto-refresh rate:



                All Cirrus Logic chipsets EXCEPT GD5429;

                All ATI MACH64-based boards (Graphics Expression, etc.);

                All S3 boards (Trio, 928, 864, 868, 964, 968, etc.).



  Auto-refresh is set up the first time you run Windows 95 with the

  WinPortrait video driver.  If you wish to lower the auto-refresh rate

  or disable auto-refresh altogether, edit the file SYSTEM.INI in your

  Windows directory.  Find the line:



                MonitorType=17



  To change auto-refresh, edit this line to one of the three valid settings

  listed below:



                MonitorType=00                  If selected, the driver

                                                will not attempt to set

                                                the refresh rate.

                MonitorType=17                  The driver will set a higher

                                                refresh rate for selected

                                                chip/board combinations.



   If you choose "MonitorType=00", or if the WinPortrait drivers do not

   set the refresh rate for your video board, you may be able to use

   DOS utilities included with your video board.  Select "SHUT DOWN"

   from the start menu, and choose "RESTART COMPUTER IN MS-DOS MODE";

   then you may run a DOS refresh rate utility, and "EXIT" back to

   Windows 95.

   Many refresh rate utilities, such as S3REFRSH.EXE from S3 and CLMODE

   from Cirrus Logic, modify the boot-up procedures and will give you

   the correct refresh rate without needing to be run by hand again.

   If you do not have a DOS refresh rate utility, your board manufacturer

   should be able to supply you with one, either by mail or through a BBS.



   If Windows 95 comes up with an unstable video signal, your board may

   not be able to handle a high refresh rate.  Reboot Windows 95 while

   pressing the F8 key to enter "SAFE" mode; from here, edit SYSTEM.INI

   as described above to turn Auto-refresh off ("MonitorType=00").



Applications Not "Rotate friendly" - Windows 95

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In Windows 3.1, a few applications are not "Rotate friendly".  These 

applications are unable to correctly re-size themselves when rotating 

from one orientation to another.  These applications will function 

correctly when used in one orientation only.  If you must use

the Windows 3.1 version of these applications, it is advisable not to

rotate in the middle of a session.



Since dynamic resolution change is part of the Windows 95 design, there

will be almost no Windows 95 applications that have any difficulty with

rotation.  Some applications that have not been fully upgraded to Windows 95

may have problems with any resolution change, including rotation.



The following is a list of known Windows 95 applications that have

problems with dynamic resolution change:



    After Dark for Windows 95:  All screen-saver modules handle resolution

                                change without error, but the "hot corner"

                                locations (set in the After Dark Setup

                                dialog) do not move when resolution changes.



The following is a list of Windows 3.1 applications that are not 

Rotate friendly.  We recommend that you upgrade to the Windows 95 version

of any software you run with Windows 95 and WinPortrait drivers:



   Adobe PhotoShop 2.5 for Windows 3.1

   After Dark 3.0 for Windows 3.1

   Connectix Ram Doubler for Windows 3.1

   Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows 3.1

   Norton Desktop for Windows 3.1

   Ventura Publisher for Windows 3.1

   WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows 3.1





WinPortrait Installation and Uninstall -- Windows 95

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In Windows 95, WinPortrait drivers are installed using "Change Display

Type" from the Display Properties dialog. To install the WinPortrait

drivers, click the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop to open

the Display Properties page; move to the "Settings" tab.  Select

"Change Display Type" to bring up the Display/Monitor screen, and

select "Change Display Type" (you may also install the WinPortrait Monitor

Type at this point with "Change Monitor Type" -- see MACH64 note below).

Click on "Have Disk" to reach the WinPortrait installation disk.



WinPortrait installation makes the following changes to your system:



   1. Copy WPCTRL95.EXE and WINPHOOK.DLL to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory

   2. Copy REFRESH.EXE to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory

   3. Copy WP??????.DRV to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory

   4. Copy WINP95.txt to the WINDOWS directory

   5. Copy ???.VXD to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory

   6. Add WPCTRL95 to the LOAD line in the WIN.INI file

   7. Update the Registry to reflect the new driver and resolution.



Filenames with a '?' means the name depends on the board selected.  See 

the WinPortrait Drivers section below for a list of the files.



To uninstall WinPortrait from your system, make the following changes:



   1. Delete the files created in install steps 1-4 above;

   2. Remove the text added to WIN.INI in install step 6;

   3. Go to the hidden directory WINDOWS\INF.  Search through the

      files named OEM????.INF and delete any that contain the

      string "WinPortrait" (these will be copies of WINPORTR.INF, the

      WinPortrait installation file.  Other OEM????.INF files will be

      copies of other manufacturers' installation files, and should

      not be deleted).

   4. In WINDOWS\INF, delete the files DRVIDX.BIN and DRVDATA.BIN.

   5. Restart Windows 95.  You will be asked to reconfigure your

      system and select a new display driver.





Setting the Monitor Type with the Display Properties dialog

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  Using the same Display Properties dialog described above, you should

  change your Monitor Type to indicate that you are using a MicroScan

  monitor.

  On the Display/Monitor screen, select "Change Monitor Type".

  Click on "Have Disk" to reach the WinPortrait installation disk.

  

   SPECIAL NOTE regarding ATI MACH 64:

        With some video boards based on the ATI MACH 64, your video

        signal may disappear when you go through the "Change Monitor

        Type" procedure.  If this happens, use the Hot-Key (Ctl-Shift-"R",

        or the Hot-Key you have configured) to rotate the image; your

        video signal will return to normal.





WinPortrait Disks

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Disk 1:



   SETUP.EXE      WinPortrait Setup program

   WINPCTRL.EXE   WinPortrait Rotate Manager

   WINPPREF.CPL   WinPortrait Control Panel Preferences Applet

   WP??????.DRV   WinPortrait Display drivers

   *.TXT          WinPortrait Help and Information files

   WINPORTR.INF   WinPortrait Installation file for Windows 95

   WINP3_1.TXT    The README.TXT file for Windows 3.1 installation 



Disk 2:



   ????????.FON   Windows Font files

   ????????.386   Display cards VDD's

   ????????.3GR   Display cards 386 Grabbers

   ????????.2GR   Display cards 286 Grabbers

   OEM?????.WPI   Windows Setup Information files

   ????????.VXD   Display cards VDD's for Windows 95

   REFRESH.EXE    WinPortrait Refresh Meter

   WPCTRL95.EXE   Rotate application for Windows 95

   WINPHOOK.DLL   Rotate library for WPCTRL95.EXE

   WINP95.TXT     The README.TXT file for Windows 95 installation (this file)



WinPortrait Drivers -- Windows 95

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Chipset  ID     Driver          Win95 VDD   

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ET4000   150    WPET4P.DRV      TSENGW32.VXD

HT209    100    WPHT209P.DRV    VIDEO7.VXD

S3       300    WPS3P.DRV       S3.VXD

S3 HiClr 301    WPS3H.DRV       S3.VXD

S3 964   310    WPS3964P.DRV    S3.VXD

mach32   360    WPM32P.DRV      ATI.VXD

mach64   370    WPM64P.DRV      ATI.VXD

GD542X   200    WPGD542X.DRV    CIRRUS.VXD

P9000    600    WPP9000P.DRV    P9000.VXD

QVision  650    WPQVISP.DRV     COMPAQ.VXD

