Free Trial Period: 3 months (upon registering online successfully).

The software is based on Microsoft .NET Framework platform. The .NET Framework version of Windows could affect application behaviour greatly.

This version of BC4E has three different packages to adapt to the versions of .NET Framework installed on Windows of your PC automatically.

Users only need to run the main executable "setup.exe". It will check Windows .NET Framework, and then choose the right one to run.

1. Ensure that the PC has Internet access, which is required for trial license or subscription license renewal.

2. Unzip the package to a temporary workingfolder.

3. Run "setup.exe" application.

4. Fill out the setup form as appropriate. Generally, you just need to type in the club name, and accept default for other fields.

5. Click the button of "Install New". If Internet connection has problem for online registry, it will wait for 30 seconds before continuing.

6. Close the "setup.exe" application after prompting “Success" message.

•  Notes: If "setup.exe" fails to register online, you will have "Program Key is expired." message when starting the application.

     Upgrading or day-to-day running doesn't require Intenet connection. Windows XP. doesn't support Internet access.)

1.   Download the latest package.

2.   Unzip it to a temporary working folder ( not the final installation folder like "C:\BC4E" ).

3.   Run "setup.exe" application.

4.   Fill out the setup form as appropriate if needed. Otherwise (normally),just leave them as default.

5.   Click the button of Upgrade Existing. Wait till prompting message.

6.   Close the "setup.exe" application.

•  Notes: Please do upgrading, and test it before running your club. If you want to roll back the change, please check "Learning" Tab for details.

•  OS: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows XP

  • Some PCs may require Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86) installed if failing to load "BC4ETXDLL.dll" file, or having errors.

  •  It is because BC4E is a 32-bit Windows application;       Download Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86) from Microsoft

•  Windows 11: (The latest .NET FrameWork 4.8. )

•  Windows 10: (.NET FrameWork: 4.5.2 or above)      Download .NET FrameWork 4.6.2 for Windows 10 from Microsoft

•  Windows 8.1: (.NET FrameWork 4.6.2)      Download .NET FrameWork 4.6.2 for Windows 8.1 from Microsoft

•  Windows 7: (Service Pack 1, and .NET FrameWork 4.6.2 for Windows 7)       Download .NET FrameWork 4.6.2 for Windows 7 from Microsoft

•  Windows XP: (Service Pack 3, and .NET FrameWork 4.0 for Windows XP)      Download .NET FrameWork 4.0 for Windows XP from Microsoft

Notes: This BC4E edition doesn't have Internet feature due to .NET Framework limit. So it cannot register or renew license online automatically.

        Users need to email to support@bc4e.net to get the license for trying or running clubs normally.

BC4E has integrated support for any other language that Windows support. But users need to translate the text file for prompt strings.

• Steps to add new langauge that BC4E can display:

1.    Create a subfolder under "C：\BC4E\Language\" directory with the name of the language.

2.    Translate both text files: "readme.txt" and "BC4E_Used_Strings.txt" in folder "C：\BC4E\Language\English" from English line by line.

    And save the two files in the folcer created in Step 1 with the same file names.

3.    Start BC4E. Now it should display the langauge that Windows system is using.

• For example, to support French language:

1.    Create a subfolder named "C:\BC4E\Language\French".

2.    Save the French text files translated from "readme.txt" and "BC4E_Used_Strings.txt" in folder "C：\BC4E\Language\English"

    as "readme.txt" and "BC4E_Used_Strings.txt" in "C\BC4E\Language\French" folder respectively.

Then, BC4E can run in French Windows OS and all items will be displayed as French.