Systems today require a pre-installed application in order to execute a file. This means that if the user recieves a file and the proper application has not been installed, when the user double clicks on the file, an error message from the OS will appear.

When this occurs, the user will have to go through the tedious process of:

  1. Getting familiar with the type of file and application needed to execute it

  2. Buying it or downloading it from the Internet

  3. Installing the application

  4. Executing the file

 

Since most home users do not have the knowledge or the capability to install the required application, the error message exasperates them. Our Software Manager is specifically developed to free the user from this frustrating process. The Software Manager facilitates the task of downloading and installing applications and makes software management transparent and automatic.

When the Software Manager is installed on your computer, it executes all the required steps. When you double click on a file that has no application associated with it, the Software Manager will automatically and transparently execute a set of activities that will result in the proper execution of the required file. These activities include:

  1. Checking the actual file type by parsing the header of the file and retrieving the type of application and the specific version needed.

  2. Launching the required application if it is installed in the system. If it is not installed, the system asks if the user wants the Software Manager to install the application.

  3. If the user decides to install, the system will search its knowledge base for the Internet location of the required application, and will automatically download and install it.

  4. Executing the file.