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ATTENTION!
MicroFest, Inc. will be soon going out
of business!
New sales are no longer available!
This web-site will be up for a limited amount of time for past
customers to obtain support, but the web-sites will be fully
shut down in the near future.
We thank all customers
for their business in the past and are sorry that it is not
financially viable for us to continue to offer our products
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Upgrade or
Renew Backyard Bookie |
We no longer support the Thoroughbred Edition.
If you purchased in 2021 or later, there is no need to upgrade, as you own the
Premium Edition license.
If you originally purchased the Thoroughbred
Edition and have not upgraded since 2020 or earlier, you will need to purchase
the Premium Edition for only $29.95. The Premium Edition does not
require an upgrade to continue to use the software year after year.
Order now.
If you need to reinstall your Premium Edition
software, you can follow the steps below.
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Upgrade to the latest
maintenance version of the
Premium Edition
First,
you need to de-install your current Backyard Bookie
program.
- Make sure you have your Registration ID.
To get your ID, open your existing Backyard Bookie program and click the Help
/ About Backyard Bookie menu item. Your registration ID will be
displayed to you.
- Click the "Start" or Windows icon in
the bottom left corner, then find "Control Panel", then "Add/Remove Programs"
or "Uninstall a program"
- Select "Backyard Bookie", and click
Add/Remove button
Second, download the latest version of Backyard
Bookie - Premium Edition.
Third, install the new Backyard
Bookie program:
- At the WINDOWS desktop, Click START or
the Windows icon in the bottom left corner of the taskbar.
- Click the RUN entry within
the pop-up window.
- Click the BROWSE button to locate
the BackyardBookieZip.exe file.
- Click the OK button.
- The WinZip Self-Extractor dialog box will
appear, Click the SETUP button.
- The Backyard Bookie setup screen will
appear, Click the OK button.
- Select a target installation
directory. The default target installation directory is C:\Program
Files\BackyardBookie\. The BROWSE button gives you the option to select a different
installation directory.
- After the desired installation directory is
selected, Click the INSTALLATION icon. (The icon is located in the upper
left-hand corner.)
- Click the OK button.
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Trouble with downloading and running the install package?
Please try saving the download file onto your C: drive somewhere vs.
trying to run it from within your browser. Save the file and then find
the saved BackyardBookieZip.exe file in File Explorer and double-click on it to launch the
install process. Often this will solve any issues.
Having issues due to size of file? Please click here for an alternative
download method.
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Vista and Windows 7-11 users!
There are a few of Backyard Bookie features that do not operate
properly with the Vista and Windows 7 thru 11 operating systems that we know of --
and possibly more with your particular system setup.
The Help documentation
will not be available through the Help buttons on the Backyard Bookie
Windows, due to a limitation introduced in the Windows system.
Instead, you can
click
here to download the full Help documentation that
comes with the product. The download is in Adobe Acrobat format and
approximately 770 KB.
It is necessary you perform the following steps to
set the compatibility mode:
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right-click the Start button or Windows icon in the bottom left
corner
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click File Explorer
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find your C: drive and click
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find Program Files -- or Program Files (x86) -- and click
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click on the "Compatibility" tab
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find the BackyardBookie folder and click
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find BackyardBookie(.exe) and right-click
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choose Properties
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click the Compatibility tab
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check the "Run in Compatibility Mode for" and choose Windows XP
Service Pack 2 (or Service Pack 3)
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in the Privilege Level section, check the "Run this program as an
administrator" box
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click OK
This should set the security on your computer such that the automated
Backyard Bookie functions will work properly and may help keep calculations
accurate.
Also, some people have reported problems with printing (black boxes in some
areas, for example, or no print at all). Try the above bulleted steps
to see if that helps. If not, then print will need to done to a file
(either HTML, comma-delimited for import into a spreadsheet, or text file)
and then printed separately. |
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Check out MicroFest's other
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