peachtree-software peachtree complete accounting 7.0 Guía De Instalación Rápida

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Introducing and Installing Peachtree Accounting

Introducing Peachtree Complete Accounting Release 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

About This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
System Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
Contents of the Peachtree Accounting Package  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
Contents of the Peachtree Accounting Compact Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4

Installing Peachtree Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Displaying the Peachtree Accounting Online Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing Peachtree Accounting on a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Network Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
Installing on a Client/Server Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
Installing on a Peer-to-Peer Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11

Installing on the Network Administrator’s Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing on a Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

About Record and File Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Record Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Exclusive File Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

What’s Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Registering Peachtree Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Practicing with Sample Data and Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Exploring Sample Company Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Following Online and Written Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Creating a New Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Converting Existing Company Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Peachtree Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Before Contacting Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Uninstalling Peachtree Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Troubleshooting Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

When I attempt to install Peachtree Accounting,
I received the error, “You must have full administrative rights
to your computer.” What’s wrong?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
What will happen to my existing Peachtree company
after I install the upgrade?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
What will happen to my custom reports, forms,
and financial statements? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
I tried opening Peachtree Accounting, and received
an error that read “Btrieve initialization failed due to invalid
transaction file. Please delete the Btrieve.trn file, exit Windows
and retry.” What happened?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25