This new program is called Vista4Cast. It allows you to display weather on Vista's start page.

All the data is collected from weather.com and now there is an additional program called Extended4Cast, this will create an addin program that displays the weather for 7 days.

Vista4Cast.exe - This will retrieve the weather forecast for you every 2 hours.

Vista4CastConfig.exe - This program is the setup/configuration for Vista4Cast.

• It allows you to search for the city near you and gets the correct locale for weather.com.
• Choose your forecast from 1 to 7 days (image displayed on VMC start page)
• Image builder
  o Choose the font for the text displayed including colour and effects
  o Choose weather to display the day name, high temperature, low temperature, slash
  o Choose to toggle the slash
  o You can customise the image by moving positioning the text anywhere on the image.
• A Preview to see what your image will look like.
• You can change the background colour, this is for representation only so you can get an idea of what your image will look like.
• Allow the colour of the temperature to be customized. ie leave it as it is, choose the colour of temperature high and temperature low or allow the colour of the temperature to automatically change depending on the temperature.
• Extended4Cast - This addin shows you detailed information for the next 7 days weather. This also works on extenders. Nb if you will only use this on an extender then you still need to install and configure Vista4Cast.

There are 2 installations.
SetupVista4Cast - This installs the system tray app and the configuration app. It also create the registry settings so the tray app starts when your system boots

SetupExtended4Cast - This creates the addin for VMC.

You need to install both programs.