Starting the software

Figure 2 1: The icon of the executable of the T3Ster-Master program

Start the program by double clicking its icon (shown in Figure 2-1). Upon starting up a splash screen will be shown for 2 seconds (see Figure 2-2).

Figure 2 2: The startup screen of T3Ster-Master

An alternate startup method could be to click on the icon of a .par file if T3Ster-Master was installed and used prior to the standard T3Ster software. The open function will be registered for the .par files for one of the two programs only - the one, which was started first. If the standard T3Ster software was already installed and used on your computer but you want T3Ster-Master be invoked when clicking the .par files, you can do the following:

• Run the registry editor (Windows Start menu, Run item - enter regedit and press ENTER)
• Look for registry key name T3Ster
• Once found, delete the shell/open subkey. Repeat search and delete as long as such a key entry exists.
• Leave the registry editor
• Run the T3Ster-Master program. If such registry entry does not exist, it will automatically register itself for opening .par files - thus for opening T3Ster or T3Ster-Master projects.

Note that the registry file stores essential information for the correct operation of the entire Windows system. Before making changes to the Windows registry manually, it is strongly advised to prepare a security rescue disk which can be used to restore the original state of a corrupted registry. If you are not absolutely sure how to edit manually the Windows registry, consult your system administrator and ask for assistance.