BYTEMOBILE OPTIMIZATION CLIENT FOR
WINDOWS
Release 2.1
Preparing the Client Distribution
Task 1 Unpack Bytemobile Optimization Client Files
The Bytemobile Optimization Client software for Windows includes a documentation folder and
a software application folder. The software application folder contains the files listed in Figure 3
which are distributed as a Zip file or on a CD.
Copy these files to a directory where you can modify and replace them with those that are
customized for your distribution.
Client software files and folders
Installing Bytemobile Optimization
Client and Starting Optimization 3
Before Installing Bytemobile Optimization Client
Important Be sure to close all applications before running setup.exe, because upon installing
the Bytemobile Optimization Client software, it will automatically shutdown and restart the
Windows workstation. This applies to all versions of the Bytemobile Optimization Client
software.
Note If you are running Windows 2000 and Windows XP, you must have administrator
privileges to install the Bytemobile Optimization Client.
To install Bytemobile Optimization Client
1 Close all open files and open applications. The installer will automatically restart the system
upon completion of the installation process.
2 Locate and double click setup.exe to start the installer program.
The installer displays a series of dialogs, beginning with the Bytemobile Optimization Client
Installation dialog.
3 Click Next> and then select the default installation folder or specify your own and then click
Next> to continue.
Click
Next.
Click
Yes to continue.
4 When the Bytemobile Optimization Client License Agreement dialog appears, click I Accept
to continue.
License agreement dialog
CHAPTER 3 Installing Bytemobile Optimization Client and Starting Optimization 13
Starting Optimization
The installation takes a few seconds and the following dialog appears.
Bytemobile Optimization Client installation message
5 Click Finish.
Note When you click Finish, the Bytemobile Optimization Client installer will automatically
perform the following steps once installation is complete:
a System will shut down and restart without warning.
b Place the Bytemobile Optimization Client icon on Desktop, in Program
section of the Start menu, and in Windows System tray menu.
c Start optimization services.
Starting Optimization
Once your subscribers install the Bytemobile Optimization Client, there is no action required on
their part to start optimization. Depending on whther subscriber authentication (Authorization)
is enabled or disabled, the following occurs:
Starting Optimization with Authorization Disabled:
This is applicable to both the inline and non-inline mode (which does not support subscriber
authentication) and non-inline mode because it is disabled. The Bytemobile Optimization will
automatically seek to start optimization and will display the status and results in the system
tray menu. This automatic behavior occurs provided the following are in place:
You have not modified the default Start optimization automatically option in the
Bytemobile Optimization Client dialog box.
And,
A Bytemobile OSN is available on the network connection. This can be a dial-up, a Local
Area Networking (LAN) connection, or a Wide Area Networking (WAN) connection.
Starting Optimization with Authorization Enabled:
This only applies to the non-inline mode with user authorization enabled. In this situation, the
subscriber is prompted to provide ID and password data to the OSN for authentication
purposes and start optimization.
Displaying Status
During the startup process, the Bytemobile Optimization Client performs the following and
displays the outcome via the Bytemobile icon in the system tray:
1 Displays a red Bytemobile icon indicating the application is
running, but optimization is not enabled and searches for an
available networking connection.
2 Connects to the default Bytemobile OSN and displays a
changing (pulsing) red icon while trying to establish
connection.
3 Establishes connection with the Bytemobile OSN, starts
optimization, and displays a green icon as soon as it starts
optimization.
system tray menu, on desktop, or in Windows Start menu.
Using the System Tray icon to start optimization, stop optimization, or select
optimization level:
1 In system tray menu, select Bytemobile Optimization Client icon and then right-click the
mouse button.
Depending on optimization status, the Start or Stop shortcut menus will appear.
Figure 7. The System tray icon shortcut menu
2 In the shortcut menu, you can do the following:
Click Start to start optimization.
Click Stop to stop optimization.
Click Optimization Level to select a different optimization level.
To exit the Bytemobile Optimization Client application:
1 Right-click the Bytemobile Optimization Client icon in the system tray menu to display the
shortcut menu.
2 In the shortcut menu, click Exit.
The following dialog appears.
Figure 8. Client exit warning dialog
3 Click Yes to exit.
The Bytemobile Optimization Client application stops running and the Bytemobile
Optimization Client icon in the system tray menu disappears.
Note This procedure does not delete the Bytemobile Optimization Client application. It
simply stops running the application. For more information, see “Operations Using the
Admin Tool Dialog.”
Modifying Bytemobile Optimization Client Settings
Important All configurations and modifications are performed using the Bytemobile
Optimization Client dialog. You can open this dialog from Bytemobile Optimization Client
icons on the desktop, in Windows Start menu, and Windows system tray to perform the
following:
To open the Bytemobile Optimization Client dialog:
Bring up the Client dialog as follows:
From System tray menu, right-click the Bytemobile Client icon to bring up the shortcut
menu shown in Figure 7, and then click Open.
In Windows, select Start>Programs>Bytemobile>Optimization
Client.
In Desktop, double click the Bytemobile Optimization Client icon.
In each case, the Client opens in the following window: