Follow these steps carefully to ensure a successful installation. Missing a step or failing to disable security software can cause the installation files to corrupt. Step 1: Prepare Your Operating System

The software is almost always distributed in a compressed .rar or .zip archive. A very important point, highlighted in many step-by-step guides, is that you should never run the setup directly from inside the archive. Instead, you should extract all the contents of the archive to a new folder on your computer (e.g., a folder named "Program Install" on your desktop) before proceeding.