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Summary: DL Tools for Windows Installation Tip: How You Can Prepare to Upgrade to DL Tools for Windows Release 4.0

Publication Date: June 28, 2004

Author: General Manager, Students Channel, FSA ASEDS

Summary: DL Tools for Windows Installation Tip: How You Can Prepare to Upgrade to DL Tools for Windows Release 4.0


Posted on 06-28-2004

TO: All Direct Loan Participants
FROM: U.S. Department of Education
RE: DL Tools for Windows Installation Tip: How You Can Prepare to Upgrade to DL Tools for Windows Release 4.0

In preparation for the Direct Loan (DL) Tools for Windows, Release 4.0, posting to the Department's Federal Student Aid Download (FSAdownload) Web site (fsadownload.ed.gov) in July 2004, we would like to encourage current DL Tools users to upgrade from Version 3.0 to Version 3.1 via a Custom installation, if you have not already done so.

We wish to emphasize that you cannot upgrade from DL Tools Version 3.0 (or any prior version) directly to Release 4.0. If you wish to bring your current DL Tools data forward to Release 4.0, you must upgrade from DL Tools Version 3.0 to Version 3.1 first. Log on to Version 3.1, and this will allow a one-time database update to run, then upgrade to Release 4.0 when it becomes available in July. This upgrade process will copy 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 data from your Version 3.1 database into the Release 4.0 database.

A separate network message will be posted detailing the Release 4.0 upgrade procedure prior to its posting on the FSADownload Web site.

DL Tools Version 3.1, an upgrade to Version 3.0, is available for download from the FSADownload Web site.

To upgrade from Version 3.0 to Version 3.1, select the Custom installation option during your standalone or workstation installation. After the Version 3.1 installation is complete, reboot your PC, then log on to DL Tools to allow the software to perform a one-time only database update. This update loads important changes and fixes to your database structure that will be necessary to later upgrade to Release 4.0.

If you need assistance connecting to the FSAdownload site, downloading DL Tools Version 3.1 in single or multiple file format, or with the installation or use of DL Tools, please contact CPS/SAIG Technical Support at 800/330-5947 or via e-mail at CPSSAIG@pearson.com.