Backing Up Your Purchased Copy of Notation Composer

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The backup procedures described here are intended to help you restore the Notation Composer software if it has been lost on your system, for example, due to a hard drive crash. In addition, you may make a copy of the Notation Composer software and install it on another computer in your household, for use by yourself or other members of your household.

We have made it quite convenient for you to back up your software, and to install it on multiple machines in your household. You do not have to enter any registration codes; and the Composer software does not check at a central web site to determine whether your software is installed on more than one computer. By saving you the inconvenience of dealing with software copy protection procedures, we have trusted you to not redistribute Composer to other individuals who have not purchased Composer. Please honor our trust in you by not giving Composer to friends or other family members, outside of your household, who have not purchased Composer. Instead, please encourage them to purchase Composer themselves, to help support our continuing efforts to improve the Composer software!

If you have purchased Composer on CD-ROM, then there is probably no need for you to back up Composer. However, if you have a CD-Write drive, then you might want to make a copy of Composer for backup purposes.

If you have purchased the full version of Composer, and it was delivered to you via Internet download instead of on a CD-ROM, then follow one of the procedures below.

prcarrow To back up the full version of Composer that you have downloaded:

1.When you download the Composer setup program, make note of the directory to which it was downloaded.

If you do not recall the download directory, then:

(a)Click the Start button at the lower left corner of the Windows screen. This will display a menu.
(b)Choose Search in the Start menu.
(c)Follow the directions in the Search window for searching for the Composer setup program. Search for a file that begins with the letters "NotationComposer" and which ends with ".exe", by using the following "wildcard" syntax:

Composer*.exe

The search will find a file named similarly to Composer20Setup.exe

2.If you have a CD-Write drive, then copy the above single Notation Composer setup program (.exe) file to the writeable CD-ROM.
3.If you have another high-capacity storage media, such as a Zip drive, a tape drive, or a hard drive on a second, networked computer, then copy the above Notation Composer setup program (.exe) file to that media.
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