Hi Paul,

I will discuss two ways of doing this: just getting
the CMC-14 toolbar button to appear, and recovering
your previous Guide setup.

To get that toolbar button to show up: go into Settings...
Toolbar, and scroll down about 2/3 of the way through the
list of available options. You'll see a group of "download
thus-and-such via Internet" options. Look through those,
and you'll see the button for CMC-14, and you can turn it on.

(I'm again reminded -- as I am whenever I need to turn on
a toolbar button -- that there are currently 322 toolbar
entries, and they need to be broken down into categories
so you don't have to hunt through all of them. If you
edit 'toolbar.dat' and look at the comments at the end of
the file, you'll see that I've been thinking about doing
just that. But I digress.)

But you may want to recover more of your settings than
just this. Your old setup had your actual time zone, lat/lon,
color and data shown preferences, and so on.

As Jim Gifford mentioned, you can just copy your Guide
folder from the laptop. (Though it's not clear to me, from
your post, if you've still got a laptop drive or backups
from which to copy.) Guide puts everything in its own folder,
with no registry entries.

There's one potential (easily fixed) problem with the
"just copy the files" strategy, though. If you edit
'startup.mar' in a text editor such as Notepad (or you can
use Wordpad or Word), you will see these lines:

18 drive d:\
63 real cd d

If your CD drive letter has changed, you should change
the above lines accordingly.

A final note: after copying over all the files from
your old hard drive or backup, _then_ you should unZIP
the current 'guide8.zip' file into the Guide folder.

-- Bill