rting Programs Not on the Menu
Typically, once you install a program, you can find the icon needed to start that program in your All
Programs menu. Sometimes, however, you might need to run programs that haven’t been installed. In
fact, usually to install a program, you need to run its SETUP.EXE program!
Chapter 16 provides all the details about installing programs. For now, these quick pointers will cover all
the most likely scenarios:
If you downloaded the program from the Internet, just clicking the icon for the downloaded
program should either start the program or begin the program installation procedure.
If you recently purchased a program, and it’s on a CD-ROM, just insert that disk into your CDROM
drive and wait for instructions to appear on-screen.
If you need to install a program from a floppy disk or other disk (including a CD-ROM that won’t
autostart), use My Computer to display the contents of the disk. Then click (or double-click)
the SETUP.EXE file that will likely appear on that disk.
If all else fails, you may need to read the instructions. (Bummer, I know.) If you don’t have any printed
instructions, you’ll probably find them in a file named README.TXT on the same disk that the program
is stored on. Alternatively, in the case of a program you downloaded from the Internet, the instructions
should appear on the Web page from which you downloaded the file.