1. Firstly, download the latest openlaszlo release 4.4 from http://openlaszlo.org/download or alternatively download directly from http://download.openlaszlo.org/4.4.0/openlaszlo-4.4.0-windows-dev-install.exe
2. Double click and install the setup. On WinXP, it installs in the following location. C:\Program Files\OpenLaszlo Server 4.4.0
3. Upon installation tomcat server will start automatically. If it doesn’t, click the following file to start the tomcat server. C:\Program Files\OpenLaszlo Server 4.4.0\Server\lps-4.4.0\lps\utils\startTomcat.bat
4. At any point in time when you want to stop the tomcat server, click the stopTomcat.bat file lying in the same folder.
5. Browse to the following location on your browser, to see the opening welcome screen http://127.0.0.1:8080/lps-4.4.0/laszlo-explorer/index.jsp
6. Create a folder inside C:\Program Files\OpenLaszlo Server 4.4.0\Server\ lps-4.4.0, called Workspace. All our developments using openlaszlo will be doing in this directory.
7. Next we will see how to create a openlaszlo program. Lets start with "Hello world" program. Create a folder called HelloWorld inside Workspace.
