Organise your photographs and videos with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 - Tutorial 1 - Install Windows Live Photo Gallery

Last updated November 10, 2010 2:41 PM

The Windows Live Photo Gallery has always been a great, fun to use tool for organising and sharing your photographs. Now with the new 2011 update, editing, enhancing and sharing your photos just got even easier.

Installing the new Windows Live Photo Gallery is really easy. Firstly, download the latest version from this page here. Follow the instructions given on the page to download and start the installation (or just save the file somewhere and then double click it). You will need to grant permission for the installation to continue if prompted to do so by Windows User Account Control. Once the installation process has started, the following window will be displayed:-

You can opt to install the entire suite of Windows Live programs, or simply install just the program you want. For this tutorial, we are going to install just Windows Live Photo Gallery. Click on "Choose the progams you want to install", the following window will then appear:-

On this window, you can choose which Windows Live components to install. Make sure that "Photo Gallery" is ticked/checked. Feel free to choose any of the other components too.

When you have decided on the components to install, click on "Install". The following window will then appear:-

Wait while your chosen components are installed. This may take several minutes. When the process is complete the following window will appear:-

Photo Gallery is now installed and ready for use. You can run the Windows Live installation program again at any time to add any additional components you may require.