Installing, upgrading, removing

 
Uninstall ATM

A few ways to initiate this:

• Click the Windows start button, navigate to the "Thinking Stuff's ATM vX.Y.Z" group, click "Uninstall Thinking Stuff's ATM"
• Click the Windows start button, then Control Panel, then "Add/Remove Programs" (XP and below) or "Programs and Features" (Vista and above). Find the right version of ATM and click to uninstall it.
• Use something like Revo Uninstaller, which does a more thorough job of uninstalling stuff.
   

Delete extra files

If you are uninstalling for the purposes of upgrading to a new version, you are all done.

If you want to remove all traces of ATM from your machine, then there are some more steps involved. Uninstallers can only remove files that were part of the original installation. Any files created by the program itself are not removed, i.e. your settings files, the price history files, etc. You will have to delete them by yourself.

• The settings files. Only you know where you created these. They end in .tsatm so you could search your computer.
• The price history files. They end in .tsphd
• The ini file - search for tsatm.ini
• The ATM installation directory, normally somewhere like "c:\Program Files\Thinking Stuff\ATM vX.Y.Z". Sometimes it might be left behind even though it's empty.

Everything is a nifty little tool which can search your computer in seconds.
 

The ATM installer file should prompt you to install anything that ATM needs and you don't already have. Download it here. Run it. Follow the prompts.

The ATM installer can also install the bits required by FXCM, if you ask it to.

You might notice that you can actually choose to opt out of installing the ATM stuff. A bit weird when it's the ATM installer? The first time through, and call me crazy, but I imagine you would choose to install ATM. But maybe you opt out of FXCM. A bit later you might change your mind and want FXCM. So during the second time you are running the ATM installer, you can now install just the FXCM stuff without having to re-install ATM.

If you don't have the .NET Framework, the ATM installer can download and install that for you as well (it's a bit big to include in the installer itself, and most people already have it). If the download fails, follow these steps to install it yourself.
 

Here's what a customer wrote to me:

In the screens of my ATM installation the text is truncated, either vertically, horizontally or both. It is as if the text is too large for the space allocated for it. I have tried changing my screen resolution but the same thing happens.

In Windows XP Help, there is a solution named: "To increase or decrease the size of objects and text on your screen". My DPI setting (Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > General) was wrong and was set to: "Large size (120 DPI)". When I used the "Normal size (96 DPI)" setting, ATM screens appeared as they should.

On my 17", Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook I then found that - in Control Panel > Display > Appearance - I had to also make sure the Font size was set to normal. If that was changed to large, to compensate for the small text in the Start Menu, Windows Explorer etc., I got a ATM result between the unusable original and the optimum.

Or here's another possible solution:
http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2008/06/23/embedded-ie-text-size-too-small-or-large.aspx
 

This may come about if you install ATM once, install either the same or different version again into a different location, then uninstall either of those. The error message maybe something like:

Exception of type 'System.Windows.Forms.AxHost+InvalidActiveXStateException' was thrown.

Here's what happens:

1. Install ATM - registers charting component
2. Install ATM again in a different directory - registers charting component
3. Uninstall either of those - unregisters charting component

You are now left with one installation of ATM, but the charting component is unregistered. All you have to do, is re-register it.

Click the Windows Start button at the lower left-hand corner of your screen. In XP and below, click "Run...". In Vista and above, search for "Run", then right-click on the "Run" icon and select "Run as administrator".

A little box appears.

Type or copy and paste the following, exactly, in the field in that little box:

REGSVR32 "c:\Program Files\Thinking Stuff\ATM v3.0.0\StockChartX.ocx"

The quotation marks are necessary. You may also need to alter the installation directory.

And then press the Enter key, or click the Ok button.

Now that's done, try to open the Charts window again. The fact that it opens at all is a sign of success. If it still does not work, check the directory is correct.
 

You need to have the .NET Framework installed, v2.0 at a minimum. Vista and above have the framework already. For earlier versions of windows, the ATM installer should have asked you if you wanted to also install the .NET Framework.

You could uninstall ATM and run the installer again, this time opting to also install the framework. Or you can download the latest version of the framework from Microsoft and install it yourself. (v2.0 is the minimum required version, but you should get the most recent version that is compatible with your version of Windows). ATM should then work after a reboot of your computer.