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In this lesson, we'll turn our attention to how to install the Microsoft Office Visio 2007 product. Now, the installation is going to be the same regardless of your client operating system. The first thing you'll want to make sure, of course, before you install the product, ye, before you even purchase it, is to make sure that your computer meets the minimum hardware and software requirements for Visio. And again, you can visit Microsoft Office Online for this information. Now then, in this video I'm using, um, Microsoft Windows Vista Professional, or actually Vista Business Edition Computer, but the look and feel of the installation, as I just said, is the same regardless of whether you're using, say, Windows XP or Windows 2000. Now then, the first thing you'll want to do is mount the Microsoft Office Visio product CD and let the auto-run spin up. Actually, by default, depending upon how your computer is set up, the auto-run should automatically kick off setup.exe. This is the installation program. Failing that, you can browse using my computer to your product CD, go into the root of the CD and double click setup.exe manually. What you'll see here, let me minimize the window, is you're prompted first of all for a product key. This is a 25-character alpha-numeric code, so I'll go ahead and put that in and click continue. After you enter the code and click continue, we're now asked what kind of installation we want. If we click install now, then the product will be installed with defaults and you, as an end user, won't have much choice over what's installed. I always recommend clicking customize and using what's called the Windows installer and leveraging its power to do your installation. You'll notice here we have three options. Installation options, file location and user information. User information is nice because we're going to need this information for features like revision tracking, which we do talk about in this tutorial series. File location, the default install location for Visio 2007, is your system root, your C drive in all likelihood. Program files, Microsoft Office. And then finally for installation options, a neat thing about the Windows installer here is that we can just simply open up to drill down into the feature set and you'll notice that the icon here is in one of four states. If we click the black downward-pointing arrow, we can choose to run from my computer; in other words, that will be installed, run all for my computer will install the selected component and all sub-components. Installed on first use means that the feature is not installed initially, but you'll be prompted to input your Visio CD the first time you access the feature in Visio. Or finally, if you don't want to install a feature, choose not available. If you know you want everything, like I do, you can open the Microsoft Office root node, select run all from my computer and then click install now. The next part is what I call hurry up and wait, where we're simply waiting for the installation to complete. And this could take several minutes, depending upon the speed of your CD-ROM drive, the speed of your computer and how much RAM is installed in that box. Alright. It looks like our installation is successfully completed. You'll notice that we have two options now. We can go to Office Online to update the software, which in the real world I'd always recommend you do straightaway. In this case, in this tutorial series, we'll take care of updating the product in another lesson. Failing that, we can click close to complete the installation process. Now, I never consider an installation truly to be good unless the application launches. So let's test that out really quickly. We'll open start, programs, Microsoft Office and ensure that Visio is displayed and finally we'll launch the application. Looks like we're good to go. Excellent.