User guide

Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide

During the installation procedure, you can choose to install Dragon to a different directory or

drive on your machine.

Choosing a different directory during installation only installs the Dragon program files to

that location.

Regardless of where you install the Dragon program files, Dragon always installs the lan-

guages and vocabularies that you selected during the installation to the C: drive, as well as cre-

ating the location where your users profiles will be created. These profiles can consume a

large amount of disk space on your C: drive. For more information on the Dragon installation

directories, see Version 12 File Structure.

You can customize your installation to reduce the amount of disk space used on your C:

drive by not installing unwanted languages and vocabularies. For more information, see

Installing software — Custom Installation.

Installing on Windows Vista/Windows 7

Dragon Version 12 is compatible with all editions of Windows Vista.

If you upgrade a machine from a previous version of Windows to Windows Vista/Windows

7 and that machine has Version 10.x or 11.x of Dragon installed, that version of Dragon will

not work after upgrading to Windows Vista. All your user profiles from these previous ver-

sions remain intact and can be upgraded when you install Dragon Version 12 or higher.

Coexistence with other Dragon products

Coexistence with previous versions of Dragon

You can have only one version of Dragon installed on your system.

Note:

Running Version 10.x, 11.0, or 11.5 concurrently with Version 12 is not supported.

Coexistence with the Dragon SDK Client Edition

You can install Dragon SDK Client Edition 12 on the same machine where Dragon 12 is

installed. In addition, Dragon 12 and Dragon SDK Client Edition 12 can share users and

vocabularies.

You can only run one product at a time. For example, if you are running Dragon, you cannot

run any of the SDK Client tools or samples.

Note:

Coexistence of Version 12 with Dragon SDK Client Edition Version 10.x, or 11.x is not supported.