Once you've downloaded the software, continue through the installation steps.

Double click the installer to launch it, and a window will first pop up telling that it is unpacking. As soon as that's done, the installer should pop up and get us rolling.

Click through the welcome screen, and the first thing you're presented with is the license screen. This is where you'll enter your demo license. Don't worry though. You don't have to type the whole thing. You can copy-and-paste it into the fields, or you can load it from a file. Once you've entered your license key, the next screen asks you to accept the BitKeeper End User License before proceeding with the installation. Just click the Accept button once you've read the agreement and click Next to move on.

The next thing we're presented with is where to install BitKeeper. You can choose any location you want, but if you're not sure, it's best to just let it install to the standard Program Files directory.

Next we see a screen offering a few optional install pieces that we want. The two options on this screen are checked by default, and we want to leave them that way. If you don't run Visual Studio and don't plan to, you can uncheck the Enable Visual Studio integration button, but we definitely want to keep the Windows Explorer integration enabled. This enables the BK plugin for Windows Explorer, and it's what the entire rest of this test drive is based on.

Once you've selected your options, just click Next to move forward and start the installation.

Once the installation is complete, we should be ready to roll!