- It sets RemSound up on the **Start menu** (with the program, the manual and an uninstall shortcut), adds a **desktop shortcut**, and lists it in Windows' **Installed apps**.
- It installs into your own user area, so it **never asks for administrator rights** and only affects your account.
- A tick-box dialog lets you choose what to set up — desktop and Start-menu shortcuts, run at startup — and bring your **profiles and settings, recordings and logs** across from the copy you're running.
- When it's done it reopens from the installed location; everything carries on exactly as before, and RemSound still updates itself in place as usual.
Once it's installed, that same menu item becomes **Uninstall RemSound from this PC** (with matching entries in the Start menu and Windows' Installed apps). Uninstalling asks first, with two tick-boxes — **remove profiles, config and logs**, and **remove recordings** — both off by default, so your own files are kept unless you say otherwise.
The over-the-network format is unchanged, so **v5.1 talks to v3.3 through v5.0** with no trouble — you don't have to update both ends at once. (Everyone still needs **v3.3 or newer**, where end-to-end encryption came in.)
3. Extract the zip **over your existing RemSound folder**, overwriting program files when prompted. The zip is program files only — it won't touch your settings, profiles, logs or recordings.
**From v3.6 or newer:** Help → Check for updates installs v5.1 with the in-app updater — and if it can't finish, it puts your old version back exactly as it was.
**From v1.9–v3.5:** Check for updates works, but uses your current version's older updater for this one hop. If auto-update has been failing on your machine, install by hand using the steps above.
**v1.8 and earlier:** the auto-updater in those versions can't install updates — install by hand using the steps above.
