1) Download Sample Data zip file from Magento Website
2) Extract the zip file
3) Drop all the tables from your magento database. It would be easy to drop the magento database and then recreate it instead of dropping individual tables.
4) Import sample data sql file into your magento database.

At first you need to download Smarty from http://smarty.php.net/download.php or you can download it directly from http://chapagain.googlecode.com/files/smarty.zip. Extract the zip file. Rename the extracted folder as ‘smarty’. Then, copy the folder ‘smarty’ to your working directory present inside the root directory of your web server.

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Customer:
Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?
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Ok, you installed IIS server in your Windows Operating System.
Then, I suppose you installed .NET Framework.

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