Thank you for trying out the shareware version of The Sign Maker. In order to give you the opportunity to see the advantages of a tool such as The Sign Maker, it is distributed as a shareware program. This provides you with a free two weeks trial period. In addition you will find The Sign Maker to be a quality application at a price substantially below that of comparable retail applications. To install The Sign Maker, decompress the SIGNMKV1.EXE archive into it's own sub directory. Start up Windows as normal, select a program group you wish to add The Sign Maker to or create another group, (use FILE | NEW command to do this), now select FILE | NEW from the program manager menu, select the browse button, now navigate to the drive and subdirectory you placed The Sign Maker into. Select the file SIGNMAKE.EXE, select the OK button. Refer to your Windows manual if you have trouble following the above steps for installing a new application. The registered version of The Sign Maker comes with an install program.