**note, this is how I personally setup/install SMP. You don't have to follow these exact steps, but this is the easiest way I've found
Step 1:
First off, make sure you have a password for your Windows User Account. You can set this up via the control panel>User accounts.
Step 2:
Make sure you disable any firewall to begin with. Later you can go back and add exceptions to allow SMP through it.
Step 3:
Create a folder named "Folding" and with in that, Create a folder named "SMP"
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I usually create the folder under "My Documents"
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I would advise you keep this out of "C:/Program Files" for Vista/7. Step 4:
Download the corresponding SMP download for your system.
- also currently there is a drop in Binary, make sure you also download that.
Step 5:
UnZip the folding download to your "SMP" folder you made.
Step 6:
Drop in the new binary into your "SMP" folder
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you should be prompted to "Move and Replace" which is what you want. Step 7:
Open up a command prompt window.
Make sure you open it as admin for Vista/Win 7.
A) Navigate to your "SMP" folder. You do this by typing "cd C:/file path"
B) Once your in the "SMP" directory, type in "install.bat" and hit enter.
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You should be prompted to "allow" here, click yes.
C) Hit "enter" once for the username (should already be set) then when prompted for the password, enter your windows user account password. If done properly, you should see "MPI is working" 2 times.
Step 8:
Now that MPI is setup, we're almost done. Now navigate to where you placed you "SMP" folder, and right click on the folding icon, click on "create shortcut"
A)Right click on the shortcut that you just made, and go to "properties"
B) At the end of the "target" line, add in 1 space, then "-smp"
C) Click "Apply"
Step 9:
Double click on the shortcut to run SMP. You should be taxing out all available CPU cores.
Questions, comments welcome.
