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Is it really that hard, if one sticks to the default install options, from day one?

A lot of the issues I have read, on these lines, seem to stem from people opting to customise their Poser program and separate content file installation paths?

After having read thread after thread after thread in this forum from newbies with installation problems, I'm convinced that a huge proportion of their issues come from them making the mistake of reading old and outdated forum posts instead of the current manual. Or taking advice from people who don't know what they're talking about, advice that all too often suggests NOT following the default installation instructions.

Just a single example:

How many posts have we seen in the last few months alone in which people state categorically that you must not, under any circumstances, install the Poser executable into Program Files under Win Vista or Win 7?

I'm convinced that half the problems come from the continued dissemination of misinformation in forums, and the other half from people refusing to read the current manual for themselves.

Of course, Daz Studio users are exempted from the latter group, since AFAIK there is no current and updated manual for their software, and searching the available documentation does tend to lead one on a wild goose chase after a string of 404's. However, Poser users have no such excuse. Yet we still see the same problems.

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.