Updates and Patches

This help topic is applicable to the following TireMaster applications:

TireMaster Point of Sale	TireMaster Plus	TireMaster Corporate

ASA recommends that you install regularly released updates and patches. You should keep TireMaster up to date for a number of reasons:

Keeping up to date on updates and patches is a requirement of the TireMaster support contract, and it helps ASA Support provide the best service to you.

Updates and patches resolve performance issues and often include additional features and enhancements.

Staying up to date on updates and patches ensures that upgrading to future releases of TireMaster requires less work.

When a new version of TireMaster or an interface for an add-on program becomes available to you, a new installer will be placed in your TireMaster program folder during the nightly backup. When you’re ready to update your server or workstations, you can access the installer from the apps directory.

Note: Typically the location is c:\TireMaster\apps, d:\TireMaster\apps, c:\QDSTM\apps, d:\QDSTM\apps, c:\tmpos\apps, or d:\tmpos\apps.

Installers are downloaded to the apps folder by default. To download installers to a different folder, change the setting of the control TM Install - Auto download location (Other tab).

Note: By default, automatic downloads are enabled. For more information, see TM Install - Auto download location.

If you do not want to enable automatic downloads or do not have enough disk space to manage automatic downloads, you can download installers from the TireMaster Support site (http://support.tiremaster.com).