Investment Cost Basis Master (ICBM) Application
Freeware
Copyright 1990 - 2011 Ron Stultz
Instruction on how to download and install Investment Cost Basis Master (ICBM) Application software.
Windows XP, Vista (Revision 17 January 2011)
Note: This version has not been run under Windows 7.
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Click on blue link above.
When dialogue box appears, click on RUN.
You may do a Save if you wish just remember where you put ICBM_Setup_Temp.exe
To avoid this dialogue box, developers must pay for site certification. I have not paid this fee.
Your name or current logged in Windows user should appear in Name: box.
Change as needed.
Click OK.
Default location is C:\ICBM but you may change drive and folder name if you wish.
You have option to install shortcut to ICBM program in any Program group you wish.
A program group is category that can hold many shortcuts when you click on Program from the Start Menu
Setup erases all temporary files it creates when installation complete.
Program location:
Unless you changed it, the location of the ICBM program and related files is C:\ICBM.
Change your antivirus settings
Some antivirus and spybot programs attempt to monitor every hard disk write to ensure no virus is being written. While this level of checking might weed out a virus now and again, it has the effect of slowing down all disk transactions and as Investment Cost Basis Master is disk use intensive, you need to tell your antivirus and\or spybot programs to ignore disk writes where the file being written is: .dbf, and .idx. DBF is the extension name of data base management files while IDX is the name of data base index files. Early on, some spybot programs were so poorly written that Investment Cost Basis Master would perform a disk write operation and move on to the next program command only to find the desired file was not available yet because of spybot processing. Because of the time impact of disk writing check on some programs, current antivirus and spybot programs easily allow you to define those types of files it need not check. So, have your antivirus ignore *.dbf and *.IDX and *.CDX.
Investment Cost Basis Master (ICBM) Application
Freeware
Copyright 1990 - 2011 Ron Stultz