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            <h1>Install Pi-Hole on Windows 10 Via WSL</h1>
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          <h2>Installing WSL</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Windows 10 device</li>
	<li>Launch PowerShell as administator by right clicking the Start button &gt; search power &gt; Right click on Windows PowerShell &gt; Run as Administrator</li>
	<li>Run the following command to install WSL
	<div class="codeBlock PS"># install WSL<br />
	dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart<br />
	# reboot the system<br />
	Restart-Computer -Force</div>
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	<li>If running Windows 2004 or newer, run the following additional commands to use WSL 2
	<div class="codeBlock PS">dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart<br />
	wsl --set-default-version 2</div>
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	<li>After the device reboots, download the PiHole for WSL installer script <a href="https://github.com/DesktopECHO/Pi-Hole-for-WSL1/raw/master/PH4WSL1.cmd" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded .cmd file &gt; Run as Administrator</li>
	<li>Press Enter to accept the default install location (C:\Program Files)</li>
	<li>Press Enter to continue with the installation</li>
	<li>When prompted, enter and confirm a Pi-Hole admin password</li>
	<li>After the Pi-Hole installation script completes, right click the Start button &gt; run &gt; type cmd &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in command prompt
	<div class="codeBlock"># enter wsl prompt<br />
	wsl<br />
	# edit resolv.conf<br />
	sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf</div>
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	<li>Add the following line
	<p>nameserver 127.0.0.1</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to resolv.conf</li>
	<li>Run the following command to update the Pi-Hole blocklist
	<div class="codeBlock"># update pihole<br />
	sudo pihole -g</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/admin</li>
	<li>Click Login</li>
	<li>Authenticate with the admin password set earlier</li>
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<p>Special thanks to the developer of this installation script <a href="https://github.com/DesktopECHO/Pi-Hole-for-WSL1" target="_blank">https://github.com/DesktopECHO/Pi-Hole-for-WSL1</a></p>          </div>
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