Installing Chocolatey on Windows 10 and up
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/02
Steps for installing Chocolatey on Windows 11 and up or 10 version 1803 and up.
Since I often install Windows on machines where it is not easy to copy/paste longer install commands my steps are slightly different than the ones on [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Installing Chocolatey:
- Start a regular command prompt
- Either these two (the options are equivalent, see [Wayback/Archive] curl: transfer a URL | curl Commands | Man Pages | ManKier for
--remote-nameand-O):curl --remote-name https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1curl -O https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1
Note the cURL pre-installed on Windows 10 since at least 6 years*: release 1803 or insider build 17063 is good enough to download the Chocolatey install script
- Inspect the downloaded
install.ps1to check if you spot anything you dislike - Start an elevated (administrator) command prompt
- Start PowerShell
- Execute this command
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
- Execute this command in the folder where you downloaded
install.ps1.\install.ps1
- Yup, a custom build of cURL has been pre-installed on Windows 10 and up since more than 6 years:
- My blog post Downloading a file from the Windows console without first installing a command-line tool already hinted on this (but back then I forgot to take the time to substantiate it with underlying links, sorry for that)
- [Wayback/Archive] curl shipped by Microsoft
On December 19 2017, Microsoft announced that since insider build 17063 of Windows 10, curl is a default component.
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Disabled features
The Microsoft curl build omits several good features:- no Public Suffic List (PSL) support, making it impossible to prevent “super cookies”
- no support for HTTP/2 or HTTP/3
- no support for GOPHER(S), LDAP(S), RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, WS(S))
- no brotli or zstd compression
Separate
The curl tool shipped with Windows is built by and handled by Microsoft. It is a separate build that will have different features and capabilities enabled and disabled compared to the Windows builds offered by the curl project. They do however build curl from the same source code. If you have problems with their curl version, report that to them.You can probably assume that the curl packages from Microsoft will always lag behind the versions provided by the curl project itself. - [Wayback/Archive] Tar and Curl Come to Windows! – Windows Command Line
January 18th, 2018
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If you’re one of these people – HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🙂 Windows 10 Insider build 17063 and later now include the real-deal
curlandtarexecutables that you can execute directly from Cmd or PowerShell. - [Wayback/Archive] How do I install and use cURL on Windows? – Stack Overflow
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It is possible that you won’t need to download anything:-
If you are on Windows 10, version 1803 or later, your OS ships with a copy of curl, already set up and ready to use.
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If you have Git for Windows installed (if you downloaded Git from git-scm.com, the answer is yes), you have
curl.exeunder:C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\Simply add the above path toPATH.
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- Windows 10 version history – Wikipedia (yup, the first release was in 2015, almost 10 years ago)
- Windows 10, version 1709 – Wikipedia
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (also known as version 1709 and codenamed “Redstone 3”) is the fourth major update to Windows 10 and the third in a series of updates under the Redstone codenames. It carries the build number 10.0.16299.
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows 10 build 17063 – BetaWiki
Windows 10 build 17063 is the twelfth Insider Preview build of Windows 10 April 2018 Update. This build was released to Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring on 19 December 2017.
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows 10 April 2018 Update – BetaWiki
Windows 10 April 2018 Update (also known as version 1803 or Redstone 4) is an update for Windows 10, which was released on 30 April 2018.
- Windows 10, version 1803 – Wikipedia
Windows 10 April 2018 Update (also known as version 1803 and codenamed “Redstone 4”) is the fifth major update to Windows 10 and the fourth in a series of updates under the Redstone codenames. It carries the build number 10.0.17134.
--jeroen
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