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Installing Matih Setu

What you’ll do here: check that your computer is ready, and see how Matih Setu is installed safely.

Usually your distributor or Matih support installs Setu for you, with you there. This page tells you what they do, so you know what to expect. If you install it yourself, follow the same steps.

What your computer needs

Also good to have:

• A UPS, so a power cut doesn’t switch the computer off in the middle of a bill.
• Your bill printer’s own Windows driver, from the printer maker. See Printing.
• A pen drive that stays with the owner, for backup copies. See Backups and restore.
• On Windows 10, turn off News and interests on the taskbar. Its pop-up can take the keyboard in the middle of a bill.

What you get

You get two files from Matih or your distributor:

• the installer, named like Matih-Setu-Setup-<version>-x64.exe;
• a small text file, SHA256SUMS.txt, that holds the installer’s “fingerprint”.

Check the installer’s fingerprint first

The fingerprint (called SHA-256) is a long number worked out from every byte of the file. If even one byte is different, the number changes completely. So if the fingerprint matches, you know the installer is exactly the one Matih made: not damaged while downloading, and not changed by anyone.

To check it:

1. Put the installer and SHA256SUMS.txt in the same folder.

2. In that folder, open Windows PowerShell.

3. Type this, with the real file name, and press Enter:

   Get-FileHash .\Matih-Setu-Setup-<version>-x64.exe -Algorithm SHA256

4. PowerShell shows a long number. Compare it with the number for that file in SHA256SUMS.txt. Capital or small letters don’t matter.

5. If the numbers match, the installer is good.

6. If they don’t match, don’t run it. Get the installer from Matih or your distributor again.

Run Setup

1. Double-click the installer.
2. If Windows says “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway.
3. Windows asks whether to let the app make changes to your computer. Click Yes. If the shop’s Windows account is not an administrator, Windows asks for the administrator’s password here.
4. Terms. Read Matih’s Terms and Conditions. Tick “I have read and accept the Matih Terms and Conditions”, then click Next.
5. If Setup asks where to install Setu, leave it as it is and click Next.
6. Shop Windows account. Setup asks “Which Windows account(s) will use Matih Setu at the counter?”. It fills in the account signed in to Windows right now. Check it is the short sign-in name the shop uses every day, and change it if not. Only that account (and administrators) can open the shop’s data. For more than one account, separate the names with commas.
7. Setup installs. On the last page, keep Start Setu now ticked and click Finish.

Setup puts a Matih Setu icon on the desktop.

Finding the shop’s Windows sign-in name

The name Setup needs is the short sign-in name, never an e-mail address, and not the full name on the Windows start screen.

1. Sign in to Windows with the shop’s everyday account.
2. Open Command Prompt, type whoami and press Enter.
3. It shows something like shop-pc\counter. The part after the \ is the name: counter here.

If Setup refuses the name, nothing has been installed yet. Read its message, type the right name and click Next again.

If the last page says the shop data is not locked

If the last page says “Matih Setu is installed, but the shop data is not locked”, stop. Run Setup again straight away and type the shop’s short sign-in name. Carry on only when Setup finishes without that page.

Next

Setu opens on first-time setup. See First-time setup.

Removing Setu

If Setu ever has to be removed (Windows Settings › Apps › Matih Setu › Uninstall), it asks whether to also delete all shop data (bills, items, accounts, backups). Answer No. Your shop’s data then stays on the computer, and opens again when Setu is installed again.