Hotfix HF20100309

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HF20100309

This version of the Health Financial Systems is a major update. We have included several upgrades in our software that require writing to the Windows Registry. You will need Admin rights to properly install this update. If you are a Windows Vista or Windows 7.0 user and you start our program with the /admin switch on the command line, the system will register itself properly and no extra steps are necessary. (To check this, go to your yellow HFS icon, right click and choose properties, the Shortcut tab shows the target, it should look like this "C:\MCRIF32\MCRIF32.exe /admin".) Please note, you will need to turn off the Windows UAC (User Access Control) to run the regcomp21.bat file or to use the /admin switch. If not, go to Step 1. Step 1: If you have Admin Rights that allow writing to the Registry, please follow these steps: After completing the Check for Updates process, you can either initiate the registration process by going to a link or by going through Windows Explorer. To register from the link, please click on W32HFSRG and RUN the program. The program will prompt you to browse to the location where your software is installed if it does not find it in the default MCRIF32 program folder. The program will return a message that "All Components for the MCRIF32 software were registered successfully". After the program runs, you can successfully start the Health Financial Systems program. If the procedure did not work, proceed to step 2. To register your software through Windows Explorer or My Computer, browse to the folder where the HFS software is installed and locate the file regcomp21.bat. By default, the program directory is C:\MCRIF32. The regcomp21.bat file must be run from the program directory. The regcomp21.bat file will write the necessary registry settings. Double click on the file to run it. You should see a series of eight confirming messages on your screen. Click OK in response to each message. After the program runs, you can successfully start the Health Financial Systems program. If the procedure did not work, proceed to step 2. Step 2: If you do NOT have Admin Rights that allow writing to the Registry, please follow these steps: You will not be able to successfully perform a Check for Updates. You must contact your IT department and have permissions set to Full Control for the following keys in your Windows Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Health Financial Systems HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Health Financial Systems HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID Or the software needs to be updated with someone signed in as an administrator. In addition to running the Check for Updates, the administrator will need to click on this link(link goes here) to fully register the software. After the program runs, you can successfully start the Health Financial Systems software by double clicking on the yellow icon. If you are a Net Sync user, the process is the same as above; follow step 1 and/or step 2. Why was this necessary? We hate to trouble you but felt that these updates warranted this one time extra installation step. HFS put all of these upgrades into one update so that you would only have to go through the re-registering process once. We upgraded our Installation package. We use the install software for our complete downloads and our Check for Updates feature. The package will enable us to work with Windows more smoothly. This should improve the way our system shows up in the Add/Delete Programs area of your Windows system. The spreadsheet tool that we use to display forms was also updated. The most obvious sign of this is the pointers in the row and column headers that show which cell is currently being entered into it. You will see this on all forms; cost report worksheets, PS&R, Auditor, Data Extractor. This Tool also allows us to work with Microsoft Excel 7.0 and will give us more compatibility when importing and exporting from Excel. Our encryption and compressing program has been enhanced. The software has been updated to use AES-256 encryption where encryption is used. We encrypt several files, .Auditor, .xprq(339). It is important that we use the government standard in securing your data. Our last encryption program did not encrypt reliably and we sometimes lost data. This is also the program that we use to compress files (like the PI file). The old program was sometimes incompatible with users systems. The new program should alleviate these problems.