At the time of this writing, the latest version of Scilab is version 2.4.1, so we begin by downloading file scilab241.exe from the INRIA ftp site. It is approximately 7.43 MB in size, if you're planning on using a dialup connection.
	Once the download has been completed, locate the file using your Windows file manager and double-click on it.
	A Windows installation program will begin and you'll be presented with a "Welcome" dialog box. click on the Install button.
	A "Target Directory" dialog box will appear, giving you a chance to chooose whether or not to use the default installation directory of c:\Program Files\Scilab-2.4.1
	It is possible to choose another location, including a different partition of your hard drive. Once you are satisfied with where Scilab is going, click on the OK button to begin the installation.
	Once the installation starts, a new dialog box entitled "Scilab 2.4.1" opens with a progress bar. It also shows the succession of files being decompressed and copied to various Scilab subdirectories. Note that Scilab has many small files, say 1K or 2K .sci files and .bin files. If you are using the earlier version of Win95 with the FAT16 file system, each of those 2K files are actually going to take 32K each and what you thought was your "huge" 2GB hard disk is going to fill fast! This would be an excellent time to consider upgrading to Win98 with the FAT32 file system. By dint of hard experience, I can guarantee that you'll see a lot more room on your laptop's hard drive...
	After the files have been decompressed and copied to their respective subdirectories, another dialog box appears, this time called "Program Group." The idea here is to tell Windows which program group on your Start menu you want to contain the clickable references to your new Scilab software. The default is Scilab 2.4.1
	but I arbitrarily decide to call it, simply, Scilab
	After clicking in the text box and backspacing as necessary, I then click the OK button again. The dialog box then indicates the process of completing the few remaining parts of the installation.
	Finally, you should see a dialog box entitled "Installation Completed" with the message "Congratulations! Scilab 2.4.1 has been installed successfully."

"Congratulations" indeed! There's a reason why we're using Windows and not Linux right now: we expect the installation to work well the first time! In fact, we're deliberately trading the raw speed of Linux and risking the ridicule of our peers in order to achieve the reliability (such as it is) of Windows computing! (Phew, that makes me sick too!)