Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Computers

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Installing Programs

Installing programs is fairly easy. Place the CD in the drive. Click the Start menu, run, browse, and then, search your CD drive for a file that is called setup.exe or install.exe. Click on the file name and click open.

You will return to the screen shot above. Click OK.

The program will then run through a process which will include some or all of these choices/decisions you must make. Generally, the "next" button should be clicked to continue.

A choice of modules to install;
You must agree to a licensed agreement in order to continue the install process;
You will be asked where you want to install the program. If you have a partitioned drive or two hard disk drives, you will need to decide which drive you want to install it on. You also have a choice of which folder to install it in. We recommend that you use the default path shown during the installation process to insure that the program will function correctly.
Many programs ask you to register the program either online or through the mail. Although this isn’t really necessary, but some programs offer free upgrades for a period of time.
Some programs require that the computer is rebooted after install in order to install drivers.

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