SeaMonkey Help

Installing SeaMonkey on Windows

Once you've downloaded the installer to your computer, you need to run it. Simply double-click on the installer file to start it. When the installer begins, you first screen should look something like this:

Make sure you close any other program you may have running. If you want to keep this page open in a browser, while you install SeaMonkey, it would probably be best to use Internet Explorer for reading this page. After you've closed other programs, click on the Next button, which should then bring you to the software license agreement:

It's never a bad thing to read the agreement. Once you've finished, and choose to accept the agreement, click on the Accept button. You will then be taken to the setup type options:

My personal recommendation is to choose the Custom option. Sometimes people choose other pre-configured packages, and find that they installed components they are not interested in, or find that a component they would like, was not part of that setup type. By choosing the custom install option, you can pick and choose which components you want. Once you've pick the setup type, and installation directory (which I wouldn't change), then click on Next. If you've chosen a setup type other than Custom, you should be taken to the quick launch screen, bypassing the next two screens.

If you've chosen the Custom install option, you'll be taken to a screen that lets you choose which components you want to install. You can read the SeaMonkey Structure page on this site for descriptions of lesser known components. Once you're done, click on the Next button, which should take you to the Program Folder screen.

In the Program Folder screen, you choose which folder will contain SeaMonkey in the Programs folder, of the Windows Start Menu. It's best to just leave this screen alone. Click on Next to be taken to the quick launch screen.

SeaMonkey can load itself in the system tray, when you start Windows. In the Quick Launch screen, you can choose whether or not to enable this feature. If you later decide that you don't like it, you can disable it in the SeaMonkey preferences panel, by going to Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced. When you're ready, click on Next, to go to the Start Install screen.

In this screen, the SeaMonkey installer will recap the components you want to install, and where SeaMonkey will be installed. This lets you verify the options you picked in previous setup screens. Once you're ready, click on the Install button to begin the installation.