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Part II: Get Started with IExpress

4. In Windows XP, go to your Start menu and choose the Run button.
5. Windows Vista users can just go to their Start menu, and start typing as we show you next.
6. In the resultant dialog box, type iexpress, as shown in Figure 4, below. Doing so will open the IExpress Wizard, one of Window's undocumented secrets. Since IExpress is a series of wizard driven screens, each step below includes an actual screenshot.
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   Figure 4: Launching IExpress
5. Select the Create new Self Extraction Directive file in IExpress, as shown in Figure 5, below. Click the Next button.
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   Figure 5: New self-extraction directive file
6. IExpress wants to know how would you like to package your files, as shown in Figure 6, below. Choose the first option that says Extract files and run an installation command. Click the Next button.
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   Figure 6: Extract files and run an installation command
7. Give your intended package a name, as shown in Figure 7, below. This name could be anything descriptive you choose. Then, click the Next button.
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   Figure 7: Package title
8. On this screen, IExpress needs to know if we require a confirmation prompt when the end-user activates the finished package. This is an important setting because we want the finished standalone EXE to function as transparently as possible. So, we'll choose the No Prompt option, as shown in Figure 8, below. Click the Next button.
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   Figure 8: Confirmation prompt
9. You can choose to display a license agreement. For this tutorial, we have opted Do not display a license, as shown in Figure 9, below. Click the Next button.
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    Figure 9: License agreement
10. This screen, as shown in Figure 10, below, is probably the most important within the entire IExpress Wizard sequence. Click the Add button and navigate to the folder created by PowerPoint 2007's Package to CD option, refer to point 3. Add all the files within that folder and click the Next button.
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    Figure 10: Package files

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