Having already an Amazon S3 Account?

 If you didnt signed up for Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3), so do this first.  s3ganize is the right software for getting access to Amazon S3. But without a S3 account this program is quiet useless.

After you've signed up for Amazon Simple Storage Service, determine your Identifiers. Amazon provides you with an Access Key Id and a Security Secret Access. The first one is like a username, the second one is like a password. You'll find this information on this site.

Consider Software and Hardware Requirements

Currently only Windows Systems are supported. Multiplatform Versions are planned. The following paragraph is true for Microsoft Windows Systems (Windows 2000 or newer).

 Please check out, if Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher is installed. If you dont know, proceed with the next step. Otherwise, if its not installed, please download the Redistributional Package from Microsoft Server on this Location and install the package. This Package contains a lot of system libraries which are shared and necessary for a lot of programs like s3ganize.

Download the current Version of s3ganize from this location and save the Installer File on your hard disk at a folder you will find it again. Run this Installer Application while double click it.

If you get the following error message "s3ganize cannot be installed on systems with .NET Framework version smaller than 2.0" or something like this, please install the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 first.

Starting Installation of s3ganize

 Double Click on the Icon "s3ganize.msi" what you where downloading before (Download-Section on this Site). The following Window should open up without error messages:

 Click on "Next" or press Enter while the Button called "Next" is focused. On the next Page you're allowed to change the installation path for s3ganize application. Usually you dont need to change something here.

 Click on Install or press the Enter key. The installation process should start immediatley.

At the end of the installation process you should find the following window on your screen:

Thats all. Usually you must not restart your computer. Click on "Finish" and start s3ganize with a click on the icon at your desktop or find the application under the section "My Programs"in your start-menu.