Overview Introduction WinBench(tm) Version 3.1, November 3, 1992 (C)Copyright 1992 Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. All rights reserved. WinBench(tm) is the PC Magazine Windows Benchmark suite. It provides comprehensive graphics benchmark tests using the Windows Graphical Device Interface (GDI) and selected high-level user interface functions. Version 3.1 is the fourth major release of WinBench. Version 3.1 adds tests of hard disk subsystems. Carefully read the Ziff-Davis Licensing Agreement in its entirety before using this software. WinBench(tm), Graphics WINMARK(tm), Disk WINMARK(tm), and WINMARK(tm) are trademarks of the Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. The Compaq 386/25m used as a reference PC for the WINMARKs was configured with the Compaq QVision EISA graphic board. The reference PC was tested with the Compaq QVISION.DRV driver at 800x600x256 colors under Windows 3.1. Ziff-Davis Licensing Agreement Read this agreement carefully before using the software. By using this software you agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, promptly return the software and the accompanying items (including documentation and container) to PC Magazine Labs, 1 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. The software encoded on the diskettes or available through an online access service and related documentation represent one copy of WinBench(tm), an automated test tool used in the evaluation and measurement of Windows performance ("WinBench(tm)"), a proprietary product of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, a division of Ziff Communications Company ("Ziff-Davis"), which is protected by the United States Copyright Act and international copyright treaty provisions. Ziff-Davis retains ownership of the copyright to the materials. 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IN NO CASE SHALL THE LIABILITY OF ZIFF-DAVIS EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF THE LICENSE FEE PAID FOR WinBench(tm). GENERAL Some states do not allow exclusion or limitation of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages; so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. Ziff-Davis retains all rights not expressly granted. Nothing in this license constitutes a waiver of the rights of Ziff-Davis under the U.S. Copyright Act or any other Federal or state law. You are responsible for installation, management, and operation of WinBench. This Agreement and the limited warranty and limited liability contained herein shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York. What You Need to Run WinBench To run WinBench, you need to have the following hardware and software. WinBench requires: A PC that runs Windows 3.0 or 3.1 About 250,000 bytes available on your hard disk for the WinBench software itself. About 9 million bytes of available space on your hard disk for a temporary file to run the WinBench disk tests, and to save the results of any WinBench tests that you run. If your hard disk does not have enough space for the work file, WinBench will not run the hard disk tests. MS-DOS Release 3.1 or later (Release 5.0 recommended) Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later (Release 3.1 or later recommended) Installing WinBench WinBench is distributed as as single self-extracting executable file, WINB31.EXE, on a single diskette. WINBENCH.EXE is the benchmark program itself. WINBENCH.HLP is the on-line help for WinBench. README.TXT is this file, an ASCII text file that describes how to install WinBench. You will probably want to create a directory that contains the WinBench files, and that will contain all of the report files generated by WinBench. For example, you could use the following DOS commands to create the WinBench directory on your C: drive, and to change to that directory: MD C:\WinBench CD C:\WinBench Then, execute the self-extracting WINB31 program to install all of the files from the WinBench diskette. If the WinBench diskette is in the A: drive of your PC, and you created the WinBench directory as shown above, do the following command: A:WINB31 How to Use WinBench You launch WinBench just like any other Windows application: 1. After installing WinBench as shown above, you may execute the DOS command: WIN WINBENCH 2. You may open up the file manager, go to the WinBench directory on your C: drive, and double-click on WINBENCH.EXE. For other instructions, see the on-line help for WinBench.