THE BEAN THEME FOR WINDOWS 95!! This readme file has been proudly created with Notepad. This theme has been compiled by Alex and Jon Grey. Check out the Funny Pages at http://www.bigwave.ca/~aljon/ INSTRUCTIONS If you have Microsoft Plus: 1. Create a directory in the Theme directory of MS Plus and call it Bean. Move all files to this directory. 2. There should be a file with the zip called toilet.exe, open it. 3. Click the proper icons you want to use. 4. Unzip the file rainss.zip to a temporary directory. Run setup and follow instructions. FOR THE DIRECTORY, YOU MUST PUT IT IN YOUR NORMAL WINDOWS DIRECTORY, NOT WIN/SYSTEM OR ANY OTHERS!! 5. Back up logo.sys from the c: dir and logow.sys and logos.sys from the Win95 dir. 6. Copy logo.sys to your c: drive (or wherever the old logo.sys might be, could also be Win95 dir) 7. Copy logow.sys and logos.sys to your Win95 dir (or wherever to old logos.sys and logow.sys were) 8. Open Control Panel and double click on Desktop Themes. 9. Set it to the Bean Theme. 10. Restart windows and you are done! If you do not have MS Plus: 1. Move *.ani to Win95\Cursors 2. Move *.bmp to Win95 3. Move *.wav to Win95\Media 4. Open Control Panel. 5. Click on the Mouse icon. 6. There should be an area to select pointers, cursors, etc. 7. Set the cursor names with their properties. 8. Close the Mouse section. 9. Click on the Display icon. 10. Click on the background section. 11. Set the image to Bean wallpaper 12. Close the Display section. 13. Click on the sounds icon. 14. Set the sound names to the proper name. 15. Close the sound section and control panel. 16. There should be a file with the zip called toilet.exe, open it. 17. Click the proper icons you want to use. 18. Unzip the file rainss.zip to a temporary directory. Run setup and follow instructions. FOR THE DIRECTORY, YOU MUST PUT IT IN YOUR NORMAL WINDOWS DIRECTORY, NOT WIN/SYSTEM OR ANY OTHERS!! 19. Back up logo.sys from the c: dir and logow.sys and logos.sys from the Win95 dir. 20. Copy logo.sys to your c: drive (or wherever the old logo.sys might be, could also be Win95 dir) 21. Copy logow.sys and logos.sys to your Win95 dir (or wherever to old logos.sys and logow.sys were) 22. Delete all unused files (you need MS Plus to use them). 23. Restart windows and you are done! Latest revisions: Version 3.0: - Some new cursors - Different colours Version 2.0: - Startup and Shutdown files - New background - New colour scheme - New cursor colours - Rain screen saver Version 1.0c: - animated cursor solution Version 1.0b: - fixed most bugs - animated cursors still not working - added icons Version 1.0a: - first version - some bugs This should work. If not, I am sorry and please tell us or if you have any comments, email them to us at aljon@bigwave.ca. For the latest updates, go to http://www.bigwave.ca/~aljon/bean.html Thanks for downloading the theme!! Have fun!!