# Intel® PRO Intelligent Installer

The Intel® PRO Intelligent Installer enables you to install:

- Adapter drivers
- Intel® PROSet II
- Select management agents

Additional software including SNMP and DMI agents are available on the Intel CD as separate installations.

#### Requirements

- The computer must use one of the following operating systems: Windows* 2000, XP, or NT* 4.0.
- You must have administrative rights on the computer where you are installing the software.

### Running the Installer

1. From the Intel Product Information Autorun screen (which appears when you insert the Intel CD - you can also start it by double-clicking "Autorun.exe" from the root of the media), click the Install Base Drivers and Utilities button. The Intel® PRO Intelligent dialog box appears.

2. Click Next to continue with the installation. If the installer has not run before, a dialog box appears with the license agreement. Click I accept to accept the license agreement and continue with the installation.

3. In the Setup Type dialog, click:

> - Typical to install adapter drivers and Intel PROSet II

> - Custom to select the features you would like to install

> Click Next.

4. If you selected Typical, click Next then click Install.
   If you selected Custom, the Custom Setup dialog appears.

> - To select or deselect a feature for installation, click the icon adjacent to the feature. If the feature has one or more sub-features, use the plus (+) sign to expand the tree.

> - To change the installation location, click Change and then browse to the new location.

> - To ensure there is enough disk space on the local drive for the selected features, click Disk Space.

> - For information about how to select or deselect features, click Help.

> After customizing the installation, click Next then click Install.

5. Click Finish.
   The Installer closes.

6. Restart your computer if prompted.

When you run the Installer, it checks to see if a previous version of the drivers or Intel PROSet II exists on your computer. If a previous version exists, that version can be upgraded. Any settings specified in the previous version are applied to the upgrade version.

### Uninstalling

You can remove adapter configuration utilities and management agents using either the Intel PRO Intelligent Installer or the Add/Remove Programs feature in Windows.

To remove base drivers, you must use the Add/Remove Programs feature.

| NOTE: Before uninstalling Intel PROSet, you must remove teams and VLANs configured in Intel PROSet. NOTE: You must use the Add/Remove Programs utility to uninstall Intel PROSet or adapter drivers on a computer running Windows NT 4.0.

To uninstall using the Intel Install CD:

1. From the Intel Product Information Autorun screen (which appears when you insert the Intel CD - you can also start it by double-clicking "Autorun.exe" from the root of the media), click the Install Base Drivers and Utilities button. The Intel® PRO Intelligent dialog box appears.

2. Click Next to continue.

3. In the Program Maintenance dialog, click Modify. The Custom Setup dialog appears.

4. To deselect a feature, click the feature. Click Next when you have deselected all features you would like to remove from the computer.

5. Click Install.

6. Click Finish.

To uninstall all software using the Intel CD:

You can also automatically uninstall all Intel networking software that was installed using the Intel PRO Intelligent Installer. Note that you must use the Add/Remove Programs feature to uninstall drivers.

1. From the Intel Product Information Autorun screen (which appears when you insert the Intel CD - you can also start it by double-clicking "Autorun.exe" from the root of the media), click the Install Drivers and Utilities button. The Intel® PRO Intelligent dialog box appears.

2. Click Next to continue.

3. In the Program Maintenance dialog, click Remove then click Next.
   The Custom Setup dialog appears.

4. Click Remove.
   The installer removes all Intel networking software.

5. Click Finish.

To uninstall software or drivers using the Add/Remove Programs feature:

Go to the Add/Remove Programs utility (Start > Settings > Control Panels > Add/Remove Programs) and select the Intel networking component you want to uninstall.

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