How to download WinVNKey

 

Tu Binh Tran

 

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A. Download WinVNKey                                          

- How to download ?                                                                    

- Where it can be stored ?                                               

B.  Install WinVNKey                                     

C. Run and Exit WinVNKey                                                 

- How to run ?                                                       

- How to exit ?                                                       

D. Seeing the features of WinVNKey                     

E. Answering the questions about WinVNKey                                          

 

 

A. Download WinVNKey

 

How to download?

WinVNKey is free. The official versions are contained in: http://winvnkey.sf.net . On this page, click "Download" will open a page containing the official versions of WinVNKey. There are six different packages:

- 3 packages support Hán / Nôm (with Han / Nom) in format: EXE, ZIP, 7Z .
- 3 packages do not support Hán / Nôm (without Han / Nom) in format: EXE, ZIP, 7Z .

(or you can downoad directly from one of the above hyperlink)


If you do not type the Han / Nom, then you can reduce the download time by selecting the package without Hán / Nôm (without Han/Nom).

 

You just download one package only. Normally you just download the package with the tail ending in .EXE as it supports automatic installation. However, the automatic installation may fail on some XP or Vista. In that case, you must download the package ending in zip or 7z. Package ending in 7z is in a compressed format like zip, but in smallest size.

 

When deciding which package to download, right-click it in that package, then select the menu "Save Link As ...", will display a box "Save As". In this box, we select the folder that we want WinVNKey is stored, then click the “Save” button, then WinVNKey will be download to the selected folder.

 

Where it can be stored?
It can be stored in: computers, USB.

1) In computer: Download WinVNKey.EXE then WinVNKey automatically installed on your machine. However, if you can not install any reason, then we should download WinVNKey.ZIP package so. Zip format is a compressed format. If using Windows XP, we can extract by right click on the zip file and then select "Extract."

2) In USB: Download, extract (unzip) or install on USB. Both are ok. Then, when running, click on the file “winvnkey.exe” then runs . All files are in the WinVNKey folder installed. Just bring USB to any computer that runs Windows (of course must be Windows 2000, NT, XP).


B. Install WinVNKey

 

Download finished, unzip and install in your computer.
(If you are familiar with computer, you should not read this step. The experience is always as Next, Yes, Finish, etc ... Otherwise, you should read this step to avoid mistakes).

Open the WinVNKey folder just downloaded, double click on the file WinVNKey, a frame will appear as follows:

 

Click the image to open in full size.

 

Figure 1

 

Select "Yes", a Setup frame will appear and automatically jump to 100% as follows:

 

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Figure 2

 

After few seconds, Setup frame disappears and another frame will appear as follows:

 

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Figure 3


Select "Next" to continue
.

 

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Figure 4

 

Select "Yes" to continue.

 

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Figure 5


If we want to install WinVNKey in the directory selected as listed in the image above (C:\Program Files \ TriChor \ WinVNKey for NT), we select "Next" to continue. If we want to install WinVNKey in another folder, click "Browse". If we select "Next", a frame will appear as follows:

 

Click the image to open in full size.

 

Figure 6


Select "Next" to continue.

 

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Figure 7

 

Select "Next" to continue.

 

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Figure 8

 

Tick in 2 "Yes" boxes and click "Finish" to complete the installation.

C. Run and Exit WinVNKey

 

How to run ?

Start WinVNKey by click the words: | Start > All Programs > Vietnam > WinVNKey Multilingual for NT | as the following:

 

 

Figure 9

 

Or:
Start WinVNKey by click the words: | Start > C: > Program Files > TriChlor > WinVNKey for NT > WinNT > winvnkey.exe |.
You will see the icon at the taskbar as this:

 

Click the image to open in full size.


Figure 10

 

Double click that icon to display the Main page of WinVNKey in default form as shown below. If you want to change the interface to Vietnamese or English then we press the button "Run" and select.

 

 

Figure 11: Main page WinVNKey in default.

 

From here, you can adjust WinVNKey to type text in Vietnamese and languages of other countries.

 

How to exit ?


Can be exit by one of three ways:

Turn off temporarily:

Left click once on image at the bottom right corner of computer screen, image will change to , WinVNKey will turn off temporarily.
If you want to run WinVNKey again, click once on image , the image will be changed back to .

Exit:
- Right click on image at the bottom right corner of the screen and select menu "Exit".
- Or click the "Exit" button at the bottom of the WinVNKey frame.

 

D. Seeing the features of WinVNKey


The blue text in WinVNKey frame are the links to view the related informations. When you hover the mouse over the hypelinks, it appears the words showing that if clicked, we will know what.


Example: In Figure 11, we hover the "Typing method" word, it appears the words "Click here to setup Vietnamese typing method". If you click the "Typing method" word, it will open frame "Setup forVietnamese only" for "2. VIQR - flexible" typing method. And in the frame "Setup forVietnamese only" also has other hypelinks, we want to see more information then click on that hypelink.

 

E. Answering the questions about WinVNKey

 

We can participate in WinVNKey or UniKey forums to have the answering of questions:

- WinVNKey: http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=2


- UniKey: Please send any questions in the topic "Vietnamese in the computer (Tiếng Việt trong máy tính)" at the following link: http://www.unikey.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=717c7f27de79280c648352e6688f6cf0

Or we can use WinVNKey, by click the buttons: | Run > Browse > Forum at VietUnicode |

 

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- Author of Vietnamese original document: Tu Binh Tran

- Author of English translation: Tu Binh Tran 

 

 

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