User Guide

Getting started

This chapter guides you through the installation process and provides you with

information about minimum system requirements, installing, uninstalling, and

starting ACDSee.

Minimum system requirements

To browse and view your images and videos, and listen to your audio files with

ACDSee, it is necessary that your system include the following components:

Hardware

Pentium class processor

64 MB RAM

40 MB free hard disk drive space

Software

Windows® 98 (Second Edition for non-English operating systems), ME,

NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, 2000, XP

Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0.2

256-color or higher display adapter

DirectX 8.0* for Media Window DirectX support

GhostScript 7.0 - for Adobe PDF support

QuickTime™ 6.0* for Media Window QuickTime support

For improved performance, we recommend a system that exceeds these require-

ments.

*To download DirectX and QuickTime, please visit our Web site at: