This documentation comes from my home records of how to install and configure Delphi 2005. It would be required in the event of a system failure that required a rebuild of my machine, and would have to be successfully completed before work on any Windows programming projects could continue, so I'm adding it to the records.

This is a recommended sequence of actions:

1. Install Delphi from disk.
2. Check version number.
3. Do required updates in sequence. Updates are here.
4. Download TRichView from here. Install it into My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\trichview, in this order:
   1. RichView
   2. RVXML
   3. RVHTML
   4. RVActions
   Detailed instructions are here. TRichView is a commercial component; Half-Baked paid for the licence, and licensing info is available from Half-Baked records.
5. Open up and compile demo projects. If error messages appear, they can usually be fixed by answering that you don't want to try to reload the components next time.
6. Check that the components all appear on the palette.
7. Install project JEDI JCL from here, into My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\jedi\jcl
8. Get the JCL Help file from here.
9. Install JEDI VCL from here into My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\jedi\jvcl
10. Get the JVCL Help file from the same location.
11. Download the TNT Unicode Controls from here. and install them to My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\tntunicodecontrols
12. Download the XDOM utilities and DOM 4.1 packages from here and install them to: My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\xdom\Utilities and My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\xdom\Xdom_4_1
13. Download the Virtual Tree View from here and expand it here: My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\soft-gems\Virtual Treeview
14. Edit the VTConfig.inc file to enable {$define TntSupport}.
15. Install the Virtual Tree View.
16. Download Graphics32 from here and install it to My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\graphics32
17. Download and install the TZipForge component from here and install it to My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\zipforge This is a commercial product, for which Half-Baked paid for the registration. Keys are in Half-Baked records.
18. Download and install the TZipMaster component from here and install it to My Documents\Borland Studio Projects\3rd_party_components\zipmaster
19. Download and add the DelphiZip dll if required from here.
20. Download and install the Delphi Configuration Manager from here.
21. Set up a configuration for Delphi Win32 only, and make sure it includes all relevant packages.

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