HF150 Control Program - Copyright (c) Nick Bailey 2009-2012
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Email: hf150@nick-bailey.co.uk
Web  : http://www.nick-bailey.co.uk

12 April 2012
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Your Attention is brought to the WARRANTY, LIABILITY and LICENCE AGREEMENTS 
section at the end of this file!  
 
By installing and using this program you agree to be bound by these
WARRANTY, LIABILITY and LICENCE AGREEMENTS. 
 
Notably **You use it at your own risk**.  

This version supersedes all previous versions.  

GENERAL
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Welcome to HF150 Control Program, a Lowe HF-150 Receiver Control for *Windows.

HF150 is compatible with *Windows XP/Vista/7 and requires Microsoft's .NET 
platform to be installed.  It may also work on previous versions of *Windows 

HF150 Control Program is written in *Visual Basic .NET and is a 32-Bit program.

Before installing HF150 Control Program, please take a few minutes to read this 
file as it will hopefully answer many of your potential questions.

INSTALL PROCESS
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To install HF150 Control Program is very straight forward.  You will have received 
the program in either a ZIP file or as separate files.  The program has no specific 
install program and does note make registry changes.
 
  Step 1) Create a directory of your own choice on your PC.  It is suggested
          to give this directory a name like 'HF150 Control Program' for easy
          recognition		  
		  
  Step 2) Un-ZIP / copy the program files to the directory you have just created 
  
  Step 3) Read the HF150-ReadMe.txt and HF150-History.txt files.  They important
          information. 
            
  Step 4) It is suggested to create a short cut to the HF150.exe file on your
          desktop or elsewhere.   
		   
  Step 5) Optional - backup the original distribution file(s) to a safe location 
		   
UN-INSTALL PROCESS
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HF150 Control Program can be simply and fully un-installed at any time.  Please 
also see UPGRADE PROCESS. 

CAUTION!  The following steps will completely remove HF150 Control Program and all
          your associated data.  

  Step 1) Delete the folder you created and all the files therein  
  
  Step 2) Delete the short cut you created (if any)
    
UPGRADE PROCESS
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Upgrading to a later version of HF150 Control Program is simple and straight forward.  
Upgrading will retain your important configuration files. Following all the steps of 
this procedure will also give you a backup version(s) of the program to revert to 
should you wish or need to. 
 
  Step 1) Locate your current installation folder 
  
  Step 2) Create a new sub folder named Vn.n.n.n corresponding to the version
          number of your currently installed version, e.g. V1.0.0.9 
		   
  Step 3) Copy ALL the contents of the current installation folder into the new
          backup Vn.n.n.n sub folder you just created 
		   
  Step 4) Un-ZIP / copy the new program release files to the current installation 
          folder and OVERWRITE/REPLACE the existing files
		  
  Step 5) Read the HF150-ReadMe.txt and HF150-History.txt files.  They important 
          information. 
            
COMMENTS, FEEDBACK and CONTACT INFORMATION
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The author can be contacted at Email: hf150@nick-bailey.co.uk

When writing please specify the version number, eg. 1.1.0.0, of the HF150 program
you currently have/use.

Regards

Nick Bailey  

Email: hf150@nick-bailey.co.uk
Web  : http://www.nick-bailey.co.uk

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WARRANTY, LIABILITY and LICENCE AGREEMENTS - reading is a condition of use
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The HF150 Control Program is currently FREEWARE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware) 
and has no time or functions limitations.  The author reserves the right to change the 
program status and limitations on any future release. Existing releases will retain 
their status and your right to use them but support may not be available. 

The HF150 Control Program is hereafter referred to as the 'Program'.

The Program is supplied 'as-is' and the author neither accepts, implies nor offers any 
warranty, liability or any other responsibility for any damages, loss or other claim 
of any type in respect of this Program, its usage or consequence of its usage. 

**You use it at your own risk**.

The Program is the sole Copyright of the author and all rights are reserved.  
The author's Copyright is restricted to those files containing 'HF150' in their name and 
any other file clearly written by the author.  The Copyright includes the intended operation, 
design and function of the Program.   The Program requires other runtime files to function 
and the Copyright of these files belongs to their respective owners/authors.

You may not disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise interfere with any of the Program 
executable files.
 
The preferred availability and distribution of the Program is from the authors website to 
which you and others should refer to.
 
You may freely distribute the Program but must do so entirely free of charge, save for any 
reasonable charge in respect of any physical media used in its distribution.  All electronic
or other non physical media distribution must be free of all charges.  You may not alter, 
modify, remove, or in any way change any of the files that comprise the HF150 Program 
Control Package as released by the author.  You may add your own text or other information 
files but these must be clearly identifiable as yours, added by you and in such a manner that 
they do not in any way form part of the HF150 Control Program or could easily be considered 
to be part of the HF150 Control Program.  Neither must they infringe the Copyrights of any 
author, person or organisation and must not contain offensive, illegal or other illicit 
material.

Should you believe that your version of the Program package has been subject to any infringement of 
the above conditions then please contact the author immediately providing as much information 
as possible.

Prior to release, the author has to his satisfaction checked that the Program is free of any 
Virus or other potentially destructive software/code, but this is not guaranteed.  
Before using the Program you are advised to Virus check the version of the Program you have 
prior to using it.  The author's Website may also carry MD5 checksums for the critical files.  
You are advised to verify these as well.

You are requested to fully read this and any other documentation prior to installing and 
using the Program.  In using the Program you are agreeing to accept all of the terms and 
conditions stated herein.

The author hopes that you find HF150 Control Program both easy to use, reliable and of 
assistance to you and your Lowe HF-150 receiver.  He may be contacted at his Email address 
and would certainly like to hear of any bugs, criticism, suggestions etc. that you may have.

Please remember. The HF150 Control Program is supplied 'as-is' and you use it a your own risk. 

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