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title: "How to Installing Visual SourceSafe in Client Machine"  
description: "This Article provides an overview of How to Install Visual SourceSafe in Client Machine."  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2013-04-27  
updated: 2020-07-05  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1269/how-to-installing-visual-sourcesafe-in-client-machine  
category: "visual sourcesafe"  
tags: ["visual sourcesafe"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to Installing Visual SourceSafe in Client Machine

This [Article](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81489/kashmir-now-after-an-year-of-abrogation-of-article-370) provides an [overview](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/336/xaml-overview) of How to [Install](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12876/the-top-5-reasons-to-buy-and-install-a-tonneau-cover) Visual SourceSafe in Client Machine.

Following I am given you steps for install Visual SourceSafe in client PC

##### Install VSS (Visual SourceSafe) in client:

1. Check with the [database](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/71/how-to-create-xml-file-of-database-in-c-sharp) administrator to ensure that the Visual SourceSafe server and database(s) are installed and ready for operation.

2. Confirm that your computer meets all the client h/w and s/w requirements.

3. If you want to use Visual SourceSafe with the third-party program, for example, [Visual Studio](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12378/visual-studio-for-mac-is-out-of-beta-preview-now-officially-available), ensure that the correct [version](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12845/things-to-remember-while-migrating-odoo-to-a-better-version) of that program is installed on your computer.

4. Put in the Visual SourceSafe CD in the CD-ROM drive of your computer.

5. Double-click Setup.exe for [execute](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/49/how-can-i-execute-a-php-script-using-command-line) the exe file of VSS (Visual SourceSafe), and follow the instructions in the Setup wizard.

6. When prompted to select the [installation](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/711/php-installation-on-windows) type, click Custom, and select the items that you want to install.

7. After completed successfully installation, you can log into Visual SourceSafe [Explorer](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81617/now-it-is-time-to-say-goodbye-to-internet-explorer) and use the database.

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