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Running Lightning/2000
After a successful installation, click the “Start” button, click 
“Programs”. The Lightning/2000 icon will be at or near the 
end of the “Programs” menu. Click this icon to start 
Lightning/2000. 
Important: if you are running Lightning/2000 under Windows 
2000 or Windows XP, and using the Boltek ISA StormTracker, you 
will first need to install the device driver. Instructions for this procedure 
are in Chapter 1. 
When running Lightning/2000 on Windows 7 or Windows 8 
systems, it is possible that you will need administrator 
privileges to run the program. You can cause any program to 
run with administrator privileges by right-clicking on the 
program’s 
executable
and
then
clicking
on
the
“Compatibility” tab and then checking the “Run this program 
as an administrator” box. The Lightning/2000 executable is 
named “lightning.exe”. It is normally located in the folder 
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Aninoquisi\Lightning2000. 
The first thing you need to do is to install your background 
map that was supplied when you purchased Lightning/2000. 
When installing Lightning/2000 from a CD, the largest map 
file on the CD will automatically be installed. If you wish to 
install a different map, choose File | Install map… from the 
main menu and then pick your map file. If your 
Lightning/2000 purchase was via a download of the installer 
and a ZIP file that contains your map, you will have to extract 
the map file from the ZIP before you can install the map. 
The first time Lightning/2000 runs, it will read settings from 
the default preferences files. The windows will then be 
arranged so that each window is visible (except for the 
Summary , NOWCast, Records, Analysis, and Storm Statistics 
windows), and no window spills outside the frame of the 
main window.