Installing and Configuring Microsoft Agent

Installing Microsoft Agent is very straightforward. You just need to load the software and then copy the character files to your hard disk. Once you’ve installed Microsoft Agent, you can configure some settings for the characters through the Agent server properties. I’ll go through the installation and configuration steps here. But before you begin the installation, check that your system meets the requirements for the software:

To get the maximum benefit from Microsoft Agent, you should have at least a Pentium 166 with at least 32MB of memory, running either Windows 95 or newer, or Windows NT 4.0 or newer.
A Windows-compatible sound card is necessary if you want the characters to speak or listen to you. And, of course, some kind of microphone is required if you want to perform speech recognition.
Disk space requirements range from a low of about 670KB for just the base Agent software to about 20MB if you plan to install everything.

If you’re running Visual Basic 6, you probably won’t have any problems running Microsoft Agent (assuming all of the necessary peripherals are in place, of course).