Astro Zombie: If you are on a PC, and NOT a MAC, then this should work for you.
If anything doesn't work, just post whatever things you are stuck on.
1. Go to <a href="
http://www.kazaalite.tk" target="_blank">Kazaa Lite's website</a>
2. Under downloads, click on Kazaa Lite K++
This is the version that you probably want to start with.
3. If you want Kazaa in English, click on the
English button, which is the top option.
Do not worry about the other downloads, as they are typically included with the Kazaa package that you are about to download.
4. Click on Download Location 1.
5. Now, the middle of the page will open to a wacky Dutch download website.
6. Scroll down to
Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.2 English it should be the 7th major category from the top.
7. Now, on this particular category, there are 12 sub categories. These are all download FTPs.
Just click on the second one, which should read
[ONLINE] fe3.edskes.com/klitekpp242e.exe
The first one for some reason doesn't want to give me a kazaa lite installer with uncorrupterd setup files right now.
8. After clicking on that, you should get a message box that asks you if you want to
open the file, or
save it on your computer.
9. Go ahead and click
save , as you may need to go through the install procedure more than once.
10. You should get a "save as" message box, with a blue border on the top.
11. Right below that blue border you'll find a couple of little icons, move your mouse cursor over them until you have the one that gives you the message "up one level".
It should look like a file folder with a green arrow in front of it pointing upwards.
12. Click this icon until it becomes gray, and you cannot click it any more.
13. You should now be in the folder designated for your
desktop, and it should say "desktop" at the left of the icons you just clicked.
14. Click save. Saving it on your desktop makes it easy to find, so you don't have to hunt through directories all the time.
And of course, it makes deleting this file easier, later, when you don't need it anymore.
15. Another message box with the progress on your download should appear, and give you three options, once your download is done.
16. Click
open
17. You will then get another box with a setup wizard for Kazaa Lite K++.
You don't necessary HAVE to close all other programs, but you may want to if your computer is running slow.
18. Click
Next >
(Remember, you can use the
< Back and
Next > buttons to go back and forth if you need to go back and change different things.)
19. The license agreement is a bunch of bullhonkey.
Read it if you like, but contracts mean nothing in California and foreign countries.
20. Put a dot next to "I accept the Agreement"
(Don't worry, you're just signing away your firstborn child)
21. The next page is also more bullhonkey, with stuff that you really don't need to read right now.
Just click
Next > again.
22. Now, you should be at "
Select Destination Directory".
Just click
Next > again, and it should put Kazaa in your
Program Files directory.
You of course don't have to put it here, you could put it on your desktop or whereever you want, but Program Files works for me.
It also seems to do well with other programs that auto-install, etc.
23. Not much Longer to go. You should be at
Select Components.
They give you a bunch of options again, the only one you may want to mess with is
Supertrick, which supposedly blocks pop-up ads.
Use at your own risk.
24. Now,
Select Start Menu Folder.
If you don't want it on your start menu, you could just check the box in the lower left hand corner.
Either way you decide, click
Next > afterwards.
25. Now,
Select Additional Tasks.
This gives you an option of selcting how many Kazaa-related Icons you want on your desktop.
I would suggest all of them except "Create a Quick launch Icon For 'Kazaa Lite K++'"
The first option, which is for a plain old desktop icon, performs EXACTLY the same function.
Also, make sure to have an icon for "My Shared Folder".
It's another ease of use thing.
26. Now, we're at
Ready to Install.
This just summarizes the options you've selected.
Fell free to double check them, to make sure they are the ones you want.
27. Click
Install.
28. After installing, you should get a box that looks like the beginning Setup Wizard one, that has a "finish" button, and a check box for "Start Kazaa Lite K++ now".
Go ahead and leave that box checked, it will open up a wizard to help you select a username, password, etc.
29. Another box titled "Wizard" will open.
Click
Yes.
This will help set up your username, etc.
30. When the next box opens, click
Next >.
31. For the "User Name-Network Name" box, it really doesn't matter what you put in, I think that Kazaa Lite lets multiple users have the same name.
This is good for anonimity, in my opinion.
32.
My Shared Folder Location.
The standard one they give you is fine.
After all, you can always use the shortcut for it that's right on your desktop.
33.
Internet Connection Type.
Select whatever you think you are on.
Remember, these options will determine your number of downloads, etc.
34.
Congratulations! You've completed the wizard!
Another summary of the options that your have chosen.
Again, you can use the Forward and Back buttons to change any that you may need to.
35. The last thing to do is run Kazaa Lite.
There's another box to check to do it immediately.
36. Click
Finish.
37. You're done! Now give me five stars.
P.S. Sorry if this stuff is too thourough/basic, I really can't be sure about the skill level of whoever uses it.
Also, putting things in your "My Shared Folder" makes them visible on the internet to other people.
Anything that you don't want other people to know you have, put it somewhere else.
Kazaa has a bunch of features, the most important ones being
Search, (find files)
Traffic (shows your downloads and uploads in progress), and maybe
My Kazaa Lite K++ as it lets you find, delete, etc, files in your "My Shared Folder"
Of course, you can just open My Shared Folder and do all that stuff from there.
