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Installation

1. Upon receiving your CD or completing the diary software download (depending on your purchase option), you may place your CD into the CD-ROM drive, and wait for a while until it Auto-Plays.
   
   
2. If nothing happens after a while, i.e. the Auto-Play feature fails, you may try to launch Windows Explorer, and browse to your CD-ROM drive location. Then double click on the "Setup.exe" file, which shall start the installation process immediately.
   
   
3. During the installation process, you will be prompted to accept the license agreement, and also to enter the Serial Number and Product Key that you received.
   
   
4. After this, you will need to click on the Next button until it starts the installation process, unless you would like to change the default installation path or other settings.
   
   
5. Once the installation completes, you may start to use Chrysanth NETime Diary to create your first diary database, and to enter your password to protect unauthorized access.
   
   

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Create a New Diary Database

1. Launch Chrysanth NETime Diary and you will see a Welcome Wizard. Click the New button to create a new diary database.



Welcome Wizard

 

2. Use this wizard to create your first diary database to store all your future diaries and photos. Set your password during this stage too, and you may change your password later inside the diary software.



Determine new diary database location, name and password

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Access an Existing Diary Database

1. Launch Chrysanth NETime Diary and you will see a Welcome Wizard. Click the Open button to access an existing diary database.



Welcome Wizard

 

2. Use this wizard to access your existing diary database. Enter your password to authenticate the access.



Select the diary database and enter the password to access

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Write Your First Diary

1. Now you will be presented with a main window, in which you may click on the New Diary toolbar button (which is at the upper left corner of the main window) to start writing your first diary.
   
   



New Diary Button

 

2. You may also wish to know that after saving your diary, you may retrieve it via one of the two different views, i.e. Date View or Collection View, depending on your need.