The things you’ll need:
- A flash drive with more than 2 GB of memory
- An internet connection (preferably DSL or Cable for faster downloading)
- A pc to download the program
- Ywriter5
Step One: Download Ywriter 5 to you PC’s desktop.
Step Two: Figure out what your PC has named your flash drive. In my case, my PC named my flash drive: K: drive. You can find this out by clicking on MY COMPUTER.
Step Three: Once the program is downloaded. “Click” Run program
Step Four: After figuring out how your PC named your flash drive, you can find it by selecting browse. In the example below, my computer named my flash drive K: drive. Instead of choosing the default “Programs” where Windows installs all programs to the PC, you’re going to select in this case the K: drive.
Step Five: The next screen will prompt you for three things: a) Create a desktop icon for Y-writer (this isn’t necessary since you’ll be pulling it from the flash drive so you can uncheck this box) b)Install the sample project (this is entirely up to you, me I like to kinda figure things out for myself so I unchecked it) c)Associate .yW5 files with yWriter 5 (recommended) this should be checked.
Step Six: This tells you what is going to be installed on your flash drive.
Step Seven: After you ‘click’ install, everything should download. If it’s complete you’ll get this screen:
Step Eight: If you go to My Computer and click on your flash drive you should see these two screens
Step Nine: If you click on the yWriter5 folder you’re going to see lots of files. The one you want has a cursive W & the type of file says Application. Click on the yWriter Application.
Step Ten: There you are. You’ve installed Ywriter onto your flash drive. Now, all I can say is play around with it. See how it works.
And just maybe you’ll dig this program as much as I have.
L.M. Elm, Historical Novelist 
