# Install Chocolatey on Windows

## What is Chocolatey?

> Chocolatey is a software management solution that allows you to manage 100% of your software, anywhere you have Windows, with any endpoint management tool. -https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/

## Installing Chocolatey

1. Launch Powershell as administrator
2. Run the following command
   Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

## Testing Choco Install (optional)

1. Once the installation script completes, run the following to install Chocolatey GUI
   # install chocolatey GUI
   choco install chocolateygui
   # type 'a' and press enter to accept all
   # launch chocolatey GUI
   chocolateygui

Sources: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/setup
https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/installation