From 50a464a5cf6e755263a3531e6ae0e80660a5ee2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Quaritsch <markus.quaritsch@tugraz.at>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:53:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] updating user manual on the installation options

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 .../User Manual/1-user-interface/0_start.md          | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/User Manual/1-user-interface/0_start.md b/Documentation/User Manual/1-user-interface/0_start.md
index d14008f1d3..18c065f101 100644
--- a/Documentation/User Manual/1-user-interface/0_start.md	
+++ b/Documentation/User Manual/1-user-interface/0_start.md	
@@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ Software Requirements
 
    + Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
 
+##Installation Options
+
+VECTO is distributed as a portable application. This means you can simply unzip the archive and directly execute it. This, however, requires write and execute permissions for the VECTO application directory.
+
+In case you do not have execute permissions, please ask your system administrator to install VECTO into an appropriate directory (e.g. under `C:\Program Files`). Installing VECTO requires the following two steps:
+
+  + copy the VECTO directory and all its files and subdirectories to the appropriate location
+  + edit the file `install.ini` and remove the comment character (#) in the line containing `ExecutionMode = install` 
+
+If the ExecutionMode is set to `install` (this is also possible when running VECTO from an arbitrary directory), VECTO does not write its configuration files and log files to the application directory but to the directories `%APPDATA%` and `%LOCALAPPDATA%` (usually `C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming` and `C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local`).
+
+**Important:** If the ExecutionMode is set to `install` it is necessary that you copy the generic VECTO models distributed with VECTO to a location where you have write permissions as VECTO writes the results to the same directory as the job file.
 
 
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