Installing GitHub Desktop

If you are a network administrator, you can deploy GitHub Desktop to computers running Windows on an Active Directory-managed network by using the Windows Installer package file (.msi) with Group Policy or another remote installation system.

The Windows Installer package extracts the standalone installer (.exe) and configures Windows to install GitHub Desktop the next time a user signs in to their workstation. Users must have permissions to install GitHub Desktop in their user directory.

If a user runs the Windows Installer package for GitHub Desktop directly, to complete the installation, the user must sign out of their workstation and then sign back in.

You can install GitHub Desktop on Windows 10 64-bit or later.

1. Visit the download page for GitHub Desktop.
2. Click Download for Windows.
3. In your computer's Downloads folder, double-click the GitHub Desktop setup file.
4. GitHub Desktop will launch after installation is complete.