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ABOUT THE HORMONAL FORECASTER
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The Hormonal Forecaster easily charts ovulation and fertility to help you achieve or avoid conception and pregnancy by charting the most fertile days of a woman's cycle.  The program uses Natural Family Planning techniques such as symptothermal fertility, basal body temperatures, cervical mucus observations, and the calendar method.  Let the program do all the calculations for you or utilize the fertility charting feature to interpret your own ovulation charts.  The Hormonal Forecaster also generates personal statistics based upon recorded data. You can chart up to 20 moods and/or behaviors telling you everything such as what days you're prone to have headaches,  be full of energy, experience menstrual cramps, or anything else you're interested in tracking.

The fertility feature allows you to see exactly which days of your cycle you will be ovulating with an automatically computed margin of error.  The program uses Natural Family Planning to generate symptothermal charts (ovulation charts) based upon basal body temperatures and/or cervical mucus observations.  Use the fertility meter for one a one stop fertility summary, or interpret your own generated symptothermal ovulation charts.  Users not interested in temperature readings and recording observations can also take advantage of the simplicity of fertility calculations and graphing done via the calendar method.  The program's 'Pregnancy Advisory' chart allows you to graphically see which days you will be most fertile and therefore most likely to become pregnant. 

In addition to fertility, the Hormonal Forecaster allows you to track personal moods, behaviors, or actions. Based upon the recorded occurrences, the program utilizes the predictable nature of human beings to predict future occurrences. Find patterns in the mood swings you experience. A personal six day forecast warns you of highly probable events while other graphs allow you to see how certain events are related to the days of the week, your menstrual cycle, and/or the lunar cycle. It can track everything from fatigue to sleeplessness to sexual desire.

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INSTALLATION
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1. Unzip the files to a temporary directory (or in the case of a self extracting EXE, run the file).  
2. Run "SETUP.EXE".  
3. Follow the on screen instructions.


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COPYRIGHT 2000
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This program is copyright 2000 by Brian Frackelton.  It is shareware and may be freely distributed.  Each user is entitled to a sixty day free evaluation period.  The images and icons contained are public domain.  The icons orignate from Spockfu's World of Icons (used by permission).  There are no copyright infrigements imposed by the included images to my knowledge.  If you recognize a copyright conflict, please notify me at bpfrack@uakron.edu or TBW1999@aol.com so that I can rectify the situation and remove the conflicting image.

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60 DAY FREE TRIAL
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You may use this software for no charge and no obligations to buy or anything for sixty days.  These act as a free evaluation period.  At the end of the sixty day trial you will have to register the software to continue using it by following the registration instructions and sending in the $20.00 registration fee.


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UNINSTALLING
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1.  Select the Windows Start button.  Select Settings and then click on Control Panel.  The control panel will appear.
2.  Double click on the Add/Remove Programs icon.  A new window will pop-up.
3.  A list of installed programs on your computer will appear.  Find Hormonal Forecaster on that list and click on it.  
4.  With Hormonal Forecaster selected, click the Add/Remove button.  Note: If you are using Windows 2000, details about the program will be displayed.  You’ll want to click on Change/Remove.  
5.  The Hormonal Forecaster Uninstaller will be launched.  It will ask if you really want to uninstall the Hormonal Forecaster.  Click Yes.  
6.  The program will completely uninstall the Hormonal Forecaster.


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CONTACTS AND HELP
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If you have problems installing the software, refer to the program's website: 
http://www.hfc.itgo.com/

Once the program has been installed, utilize the help documentation (press F1 or select Help from the Help Menu).

You may also contact me via email at bpfrack@uakron.edu or TBW1999@aol.com .  Thanks and enjoy!