1. In Windows Vista you may encounter extra warnings for security reasons. If User Account Control is enabled (as it is by default when Vista is installed), you will be warned first at each stage of installation, "An unidentified program wants access to your computer. Do not run the program unless you know where it's from or you've used it before." Click Allow in each case.

2. If you are installing from a CD, a program called Autorun usually comes up automatically within 5 to 15 seconds when you put the CD into the CD drive slot. (In Windows Vista, Autoplay comes up first and you click 'Run autorun.exe'.) Autorun checks to see if a previous version of MatchMaker is installed, and offers to run the program if it is present. Assuming you have uninstalled any previous version, Autorun will offer instead to install the program and you click Install. Go to 5.
If you have chosen not to uninstall a previous version, you cannot use Autorun to install: go to 3.
If Autorun doesn't come up at all, go to 4.

3. Run from the CD the Install_Data_From_CD.exe program (may be called simply Install_Data_From_CD) then the setup.exe program (may be called setup). This is easiest to do using the program Windows Explorer, found under Accessories under All Programs on the Start menu, or using the My Computer program (called Computer in some versions) on the Start Menu. One of these programs may already be on your desktop. Double Click on Install_Data_From_CD.exe. Click OK then click Unzip to copy the data files. After unzipping, click OK then Close to close the Winzip extractor. Next double click on the setup.exe program (may be called simply setup). After some files are copied comes "Welcome to the MatchMaker installation program. Setup cannot install system files or update shared files if they are in use. Before proceeding, we recommend that you close any applications you may be running." Click OK. Next comes "Begin the installation by clicking the button below." Click the button. Next comes a window saying the setup is "Checking for necessary files". Wait for it to copy files then say "MatchMaker Setup was completed successfully", and Click OK. Go to 6.

4. Run the Autorun.exe program on the CD (may be called simply Autorun). This is easiest to do using the program Windows Explorer, found under Accessories under All Programs on the Start menu, or the My Computer program (called Computer in some versions) on the Start Menu. One of these programs may already be on your desktop. If the Autorun.exe program does not work, run from the CD the Install_Data_From_CD.exe program (may be called simply Install_Data_From_CD) then the setup.exe program (may be called setup). Double Click on Install_Data_From_CD.exe. Click OK then click Unzip to copy the data files. After unzipping, click OK then Close to close the Winzip extractor. Next double click on the setup.exe program (may be called simply setup). After some files are copied comes "Welcome to the MatchMaker installation program. Setup cannot install system files or update shared files if they are in use. Before proceeding, we recommend that you close any applications you may be running." Click OK. Next comes "Begin the installation by clicking the button below." Click the button. Next comes a window saying the setup is "Checking for necessary files". Wait for it to copy files then say "MatchMaker Setup was completed successfully", and Click OK. Go to 6.

5. Once you have started the installing program you basically have to okay a number of steps. Click OK then click Unzip to copy the data files. After unzipping, click OK then Close to close the Winzip extractor. Next, after some files are copied, comes "Welcome to the MatchMaker installation program. Setup cannot install system files or update shared files if they are in use. Before proceeding, we recommend that you close any applications you may be running." Click OK. Next comes "Begin the installation by clicking the button below." Click the button. Next comes a window saying the setup is "Checking for necessary files". Wait for it to copy files then say "MatchMaker Setup was completed successfully", and Click OK.

6. Occasionally you will encounter an extra window partway through the installation which says "A file being copied is not newer than the file on your current system. It is recommended that you keep your existing file." If you have not uninstalled the previous version of MatchMaker, you must answer "No to All". Otherwise it doesn't generally matter which way you answer and you can answer "Yes".

7. You should now be able to run the program with the CD in the drive, the same way you run any other program from the Start menu. Watch for the red and white mushroom on a blue background. When you have taken the CD out and put it back in, the Autorun program usually comes up and offers to run the program.

8. If you later want to run the MatchMaker program without the CD in the drive, go to the Options menu and choose Location of Illustrations then Hard Drive.

9. You can install the program to a different application folder from C:\Program Files\MatchMaker\. You may also install the data to a different folder from C:\MatchMaker_Data\. However, in the latter case a file called dataloc.txt must contain the new address of the data. You may be able to edit the file directly. If security settings do not allow you to do this, make a file dataloc.txt with the correct data folder address (using a text editor like Notepad), save it to a known location, then copy it over the file of that name in the application folder (normally C:\Program Files\MatchMaker\).