MolStart Windows Installation:

1. Download the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) release version 1.4.2_03, J2SDK download Choose the Windows/SDK download selection. Store download file filename.exe in local hard disk and double click on it in the Widows Explorer to install J2SE to local hard disk. For example, it is installed to c:\J2SEInstallationDirectory. 

2 Add JAVA_HOME enviroment variable:  Click on the "Start", "Settings",  "Control Panel" and select "System". Select "Advanced" tab in the popup "System Properties" window. Click on the "Environment Variables" button. Click the "New..." button in the "System variables" section; in the popup "New System Variable" dialog, type JAVA_HOME for variable name and the C:\J2SEInstallationDirectory for the variable value, for example, C:\java2. 

3. Modify Path enviroment variable. Look for the "path" enviroment variable already defined in the "System variables" section. Double click on it to edit the contents. Add C:\J2SEInstallationDirectory\bin to the front of the settings.

4. Download molstart from here and use winzip to unzip it into local hard disk. This will create a directory named molstart. Winzip can be downloaded from http://www.winzip.com/ddchomea.htm .

5. Open a command line DOS Window, change the working directory to c:\molstart directory and type "java MolStart" to start MolStart application. Or, use notepad to edit the "molstart/molstart.bat" file to the correct Java and MolStart directory path and double click on the "molstart.bat" file in the "Windows Explorer".

6. A molstart.bat is provided in the molstart directory, however you need to modify it for the location of the applications.

7. Jar files located at molstart directory are needed for "Compute" button to work. Therefore, starting the MolStart from molstart.bat is needed to include all the jar files into classpath enviroment.