Mini 5 Day Help

Thank you for downloading Mini 5 Day Weather!

By Brad William at Tropic Designs

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Description & Features

Mini 5 Day Weather is a fast, compact 5 day weather display for your Windows desktop. Highly configurable options and flashy effects will make this the most talked about feature of your desktop. The Mini 5 Day Weather software shows your city current conditions and five day outlook while blending in to any desktop colors or background.

Features in this version

• Displays your current weather conditions
• 5 day weather outlook

• Latest weather data from Yahoo!

• Celsius/Fahrenheit Measurements

• Stylish transition effects

• Adjustable size to fit anywhere on your desktop

• Change colors of nearly every program element: Button links, background, text, title, description, location, etc.

• Adjustable background transparency

• Supports weather locations from all over the world

• Displays current temperature

• Can start with Windows

• Tray icon hint with location, temperature and conditions.

• Cool clouds tray icon

• Quick 1-click access to your full weather report on the web.

• Optional hide to tray feature

• Remembers position on your desktop

Installation instructions:

1. You should have admin rights to install this software.

2. Run the installation file Mini5DaySetup.exe and agree to the terms, choosing the default folder is probably best unless you need a special installation folder.

3. After installing Mini 5 Day will run automatically, unless you unchecked the option.

4. You should be prompted for your Registration name and Key, enter that information if available, otherwise the program will not update automatically.

5. On the first run of the program will open your default web browser to the Yahoo weather page so you can find your city weather code.

6. A popup menu should also be visible with instructions on how to find your code and then prompts you to enter the code in the box. Below is a picture of where you will find the code on the Yahoo weather site.

7. The 8 digit code below is all you need to have for the program to display your city weather. Find the city search box on their page and search for your city, the box should be similar to the one below.

8. This is the city search on Yahoo Weather.

10. After finding your city weather, the code is now visible inside the URL of your web browser address box below. Only letters and numbers make up the code and it is CaSe sensitive. The code from the URL in the image below would be USCA1179 for New Jersey.

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Using Mini 5 Day Weather:

· Besides the main program window, the program also displays your current city, temperature and weather conditions by moving your mouse over the program tray icon.

· Right-click the mouse on the cloud tray icon to bring up the tray menu functions. The tray menu options are pretty self explanatory and common for most programs so I don’t feel I need to explain ever option.

Tray Menu

The most important option here is the Launch at Windows Start, this option allows you to quickly prevent or enable the program to start when Windows starts. Checked is on, allowing Mini 5 Day weather to start automatically when you load Windows. Simply uncheck by selecting the menu option to disable.

Clicking the About Menu Option will display the program information, version, your registration information and allow you to re-enter your registration code if needed.

The Refresh menu option will update the weather data, the display and adjust the screen to any changes that might be needed. The program uses the default windows settings to download data from the Internet. There should be no need to adjust any settings. Some firewalls may need to let the program access the Internet; otherwise the weather data will never download.

Hide Window hides the program main window from view, when you right click the tray icon and use the Show Window menu option to restore the main program window.

Let’s move on to the Main Window now.

Main window showing the pop-up menu options

· Right click the mouse on the program main window anywhere and the pop-up menu will display with the programs various settings and options, see above.

· Use the Adjust City Code menu option to change your current city code. Choosing the menu option also displays a sub-menu allowing you to visit the Yahoo weather page to find your favorite city code.

· The Adjust Color option brings up a sub-menu where you can change the colors of almost every feature. Notice the Transparency menu option, this allows you to adjust the window transparency. Clicking this option brings up the transparency bar, setting the transparency to 255 disables the transparency feature.

The Measurement option is where you can change from USA measurements to Celsius measurements.
Mini Size

· The Mini Size menu option allows you adjust the programs main window size. Selecting this option brings up another adjustment bar, maximum size is 500x500.

Main Window

· The main window displays your current conditions. Clicking the right or left arrow icons allows you to scroll back and forth through your city 5 day weather data. With each click the display animates and moves to the next day of data until you reach the end.

5 Day Data Window

· A single day of the 5 day weather data.

Mini 5 Day Weather Requirements:

· Flash player 9.0 or greater required.

· Windows 2000, NT, XP or Vista.

· 20 Megs of memory or more.