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# Installing manually on Windows
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Yggdrasil is supported on Windows. You can either [download the latest binary from CircleCI](builds.md).
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## TAP Driver
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Yggdrasil depends on the OpenVPN TAP driver to work on Windows. There are two flavours of this driver:
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- [NDIS 5](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/tap-windows-9.9.2_3.exe) (`tap-windows-9.9.2_3`) - recommended
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- [NDIS 6](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/tap-windows-9.21.2.exe) (`tap-windows-9.21.2`) - functional
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Yggdrasil works with either driver, although the performance is remarkably better with the older NDIS 5 driver, therefore it is recommended to use that instead of the NDIS 6 driver.
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Please note that if you already have OpenVPN for Windows, you likely have one of the two drivers installed already and should not install it again.
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## Installation
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Start by [downloading the latest Yggdrasil binary](builds.md) and use Windows Explorer to copy it into a sensible location and rename it to `yggdrasil.exe`.
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The below examples assume that you placed `yggdrasil.exe` into `C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil`.
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## Generate configuration
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Before starting Yggdrasil, you should generate configuration. Open a Command Prompt as Administrator:
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```
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"C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.exe" -genconf > "C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.conf"
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```
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## Run Yggdrasil
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### Run once
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Open a Command Prompt as Administrator and start Yggdrasil using your generated configuration:
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```
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"C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.exe" -useconffile "C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.conf"
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```
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Alternatively, start Yggdrasil in auto-configuration mode:
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```
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"C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.exe" -autoconf
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```
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### Run as a background service
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Running as a background system service means that Yggdrasil will automatically start up in the background when Windows boots.
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Assuming that Yggdrasil is installed into `C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil` and your configuration *already exists* in `C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.conf`, as above, then you can install Yggdrasil as a Windows service. Open a Command Prompt as Administrator:
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```
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sc create yggdrasil binpath= "\"C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.exe\" -useconffile \"C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.conf\""
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sc config yggdrasil displayname= "Yggdrasil Service"
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sc config yggdrasil start= "auto"
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sc start yggdrasil
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```
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Alternatively, if you want the service to autoconfigure instead of using an `yggdrasil.conf`, replace the `sc create` line from above with:
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```
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sc create yggdrasil binpath= "\"C:\Program Files\Yggdrasil\yggdrasil.exe\" -autoconf"
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```
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The Yggdrasil service can then be stopped and started using `services.msc`, or in more recent versions of Windows, the Task Manager.
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