Thank you for using HCALC Tahoe Design Software's Hydraulic Calculator HCALC is a hydraulic calculator for circular,

full pipe, incompressible flow. You can solve for head loss, diameter, flow, pipe area, velocity, Reynolds number and friction factor using the Darcy-Weisbach, Hazen-Williams or Manning's equations. You can also convert values between various common units of these parameters. INSTALLATION HCALC must be installed with Administrative Rights under Windows 2000/XP. However, it DOES NOT need to be run with Administrative rights. HCALC will be installed for all users on a given PC. OPERATION A shortcut to start HCALC will be placed in the "Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\ Programs\Startup" folder so that it can be started when your system boots up. It can remain resident throughout the entire session and will automatically shutdown when your system is shutdown. If you want to run it as a stand-alone program, simply delete the shortcut that starts HCALC from the Startup folder (above) and start HCALC when you need it, using the shortcut on your Desktop or the Start-Programs menu. As long as the HCALC shortcut remains in the All Users Startup folder, HCALC will be loaded at system startup. HCALC will be visible when it is first started. When you click the Close button (X button on the upper right of its window), HCALC will minimize itself to the snowflake icon in your system tray. If you want HCALC to start minimized (not visible) on bootup, check the Tools-Start Hidden option on HCALC's main menu. You then only have to click on the snowflake icon to have it appear for use. Alternately clicking the snowflake icon will hide and show HCALC without unloading it from memory. To fully unload HCALC from memory, right-click on the snowflake icon and click on "Exit HCALC". To use HCALC again (without booting) it must be re-started by going to "Programs\Tahoe Design Software\HCALC" or by clicking the shortcut on the Desktop. HCALC also defaults to staying on top of other

application windows. If you want it to move to the background of other windows, uncheck the Tools-Stay on Top option of HCALC's main menu. The next time HCALC is re-started (not just brought up from the snowflake icon in the system tray) it will act like most other applications and move to the background when other windows have focus.