The following are the technical requirements and recommended settings for optimal performance of Morningstar Advisor Workstation TD AMERITRADE Edition. Frame relay, reverse proxies, custom browsers, custom window management, or any other configuration not specified below may require additional customizations and may impact the performance of Advisor Workstation.


Connection Speed
Minimum: Cable modem, DSL
Recommended: 1.44Mb or higher

Browser
Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or higher

Browser Settings
Enabled for cookies and JavaScriptTM

Operating System
Microsoft®Windows® NT 4.x, Windows® 2000, and Windows® XP

Processor stype, speed, RAM and disk space
Intel® Pentium® III, 550 MHz or higher
256 MB RAM
200 MB disk space

Monitor Resolution
Minimum: 1024 x 768 pixels
Recommended: 65,536 colors, small font settings

Printers
For optimal performance, we recommend using a color printer when printing graphs and reports containing graphs. We recommend setting your Internet Options to print background colors and images. This ensures that any shading or image you see on screen is faithfully reproduced in the printed report (for example, the heat map in the Market Barometer).

 
Third Party Applications
Microsoft® Word 2000 or above
Microsoft® Excel 2000 or above
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® 5.0 or higher (You can download the latest version for free from Adobe's Web site.)

Security Protocol
Morningstar Advisor Workstation TD AMERITRADE Edition uses 128-bit Security Sockets Layer (SSL), the encryption standard employed by most banks and credit-card companies for transmission of data over the internet.