You may want to install ACDSee Photo Manager with custom options in 2 cases:

• If you want to install ACDSee Photo Manager in a location other than the default location such as a second internal hard drive. I don't recommend installing onto an external hard drive since this makes ACDSee inoperable if the external hard drive is not connected.
• If you want to customize which files you want ACDSee to be in charge of viewing. This is called file associations. The default installation of the ACDSee Photo Manager seems to take over your computer and file types.

To start download the trial.

1. Run the trial exe file.
2. Click Next
3. Click on the "I accept the terms" and click Next
4. Enter in your name & organization. If it is a trial, select trial. If you have a license number, click on Full and enter the license number. Then click Next
5. Choose Custom if you wish to change the default location of where ACDSee is installed to. If you want the default location on your main c: drive, then choose Complete. Click Next
6. If you chose Custom, you will be shown this screen. Click on the Change button and choose the desired location.
7. If you want to customize which file types that you want ACDSee to open, then choose Custom and click Next
8. XP ONLY: Choose whether you want the Yahoo toolbar or not, the click Next.
9. If Vista, go to step 17. On XP: ACDSee will start installing. Eventually you will get this screen:
   1. On the Image Tab: Click on Select All. Then go through the list and remove any image types that you want your other software to handle.
      
   2. On the Video & Audio tab: I would choose Remove All
   3. On the Archive tab: It is your choice.
   4. Then click OK.
   5. Then skip to step 19
      
10. On Vista, you will get this window:None of the boxes will be checked. I suggest checking:
    1. BMP
    2. GIF
    3. JPG & JPEG
    4. PNG
    5. TIF & TIFF
       
    6. Any that say ACDSee 10 Photo Manager
11. At this point, ACDSee will start with either a welcome screen, catalog screen or convert screen depending on your system.
    1. If it is asking you to catalog your images. We recommend not cataloging your digital kits but you can catalog your photos if you want to use ACDsee to view your photos.
    2. If you are converting your database see this help: Upgrade from ACDSee 9 and ACDSee 10