Installing Design Manager 2011 DESKTOP
Follow these instructions when installing Design Manager 2011 from a CD on your own computer(s) or network. If you are using Design Manager Cloud, see…
Installing on a Single-user system, one user or one computer:
- Insert the Design Manager 2011 CD
- Windows should ask how to open the CD, choose Run Setup
- Follow the Prompts
- After the setup is complete and the computer restarts, run DM2011 by double-clicking the icon.
- Enter the Product Code found on the back of the CD case
*NOTE: If you have purchased multiple users, then you will be asked for a password the next time that you start DM2011. The default password is “DM”.
Installing on a Network, so that multiple users can share DM 2011
- Choose the computer that will be the server…this is the computer that will have DM 2011 installed on its C: Drive. This computer must be the machine with the newest operating system. For example, if you have one Windows 7 machine, and 2 XP machines, then the Windows 7 machine must be the server
- Install DM 2011 as normal on the server computer (follow the “Single-user” instructions on the previous page). Make sure that you start up Design Manager and enter the product code
- Make the C:\DM2011 folder sharable…
- Choose Start, Computer (My Computer), C Drive, highlight the C:\DM2011 folder
- Click on the C: drive (or the drive to which DM 2011 was installed)
- Right-click on the DM2011 folder, choose Properties
- Click on the Sharing Tab, and then click the Share button
- Click Add and choose Everyone, or choose individual users
- Set each user that will share Design Manager to Read/Write
- Go to each of the computers from which you wish to run DM 2011 and do the following…
- Click on the Start Button, choose Computer
- Click on the Map network drive button
- Choose an available drive letter and then click the Browse button
- Choose the Computer that you installed Design Manager on…highlight the DM2011 folder, click OK
- The Map Network Drive window should look similar to this…
- Click Finish
- Insert the Design Manager 2011 CD
- Windows should ask how to open the CD, choose Run Setup
- Follow the prompts until you get to the Destination Folder Window
- Use the Drop down of the Look In box
- Choose the drive letter that you have mapped
- Click OK and continue with the Setup.
- Repeat the Map Drive operation and Setup for each additional computer that you wish to run Design Manager on.
