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palCentre uses the .NET Extended Framework v4.  Past testing indicates that most Windows XP and 7 machines do not have this framework pre-installed.For reporting, palCentre uses the Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 runtime.  Crystal Reports requires that the Visual C++ 2005 SP1 32-bit Runtime and the ATL Security Update for Visual C++ 2005 have been installed6.  This is pre-installed on Windows 10, but will need to be installed manually on earlier versions.

If the database option chosen is SQL compact then Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 is also installed as a prerequisite.

If preferred, prerequisites should be able to be deployed automatically as there are no configuration steps required by them.  Some of the prerequisites may already be installed on the client machine and if so, the installer will inform you of this and you can move on to the next step.  Depending on which prerequisites are required, and the speed of the client machine this procedure should take between 5 and 15 minutes per client machine.

Note that palCentre is a 32 bit application, as are all pre-requisites.  This decision was made to allow support for older Windows XP machines.  palCentre and its dependencies have been specifically tested on Windows XP (32 and 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit), Windows 8 (64 bit), and Windows 10 (64 bit).