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            <h1>Install AdGuard Home Cross-Platform Pi-Hole Alternative on Windows</h1>
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          <h2>What is AdGuard Home?</h2>

<blockquote><em>AdGuard Home is a network-wide software for blocking ads and tracking. After you set it up, it&#39;ll cover ALL your home devices, and you don&#39;t need any client-side software for that.<br />
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It operates as a DNS server that re-routes tracking domains to a &ldquo;black hole&rdquo;, thus preventing your devices from connecting to those servers. It&#39;s based on software we use for our public AdGuard DNS servers, and both share a lot of code. -<a href="https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome" target="_blank">https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installing AdGuard Home</h2>

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	<li>Download AdGuard Home for Windows <a href="https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/releases/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Navigate to the Download location &gt; Right click the downloaded AdGuardHome .zip file &gt; Properties</li>
	<li>At the bottom of the dialog, look for a security message with an Unblock checkbox &gt; If it exists, check Unblock &gt; Click Apply &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded .zip file</li>
	<li>Copy the extracted AdGuardHome directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example</li>
	<li>Right click AdGuardHome.exe &gt; Properties</li>
	<li>Check the Run this program as an administrator box &gt; Click Apply &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space &gt; Open PowerShell windows here...</li>
	<li>Type the following in the PowerShell window to test run AdGuard Home
	<div class="codeBlock PS">.\AdGuardHome.exe</div>
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	<li>Click Allow access if you receive a Windows Defender Firewall popup</li>
	<li>Back in the web browser, navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000</li>
	<li>Click the Get Started button</li>
	<li>Set the Admin Web Interface and DNS Server network interfaces and ports &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Enter an admin username and password &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Click Next on page 4</li>
	<li>Click Open Dashboard on the Congratutations page</li>
	<li>Log in using the admin username and password created during the install</li>
	<li>Welcome to AdGuardHome</li>
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<h2>Install as a Windows Service</h2>

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	<li>Click the open Command Prompt and press CTRL+C to close it</li>
	<li>Type the following command in the PowerShell window to run AdGuard Home as a Windows service
	<div class="codeBlock PS">.\AdGuardHome.exe -s install</div>
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	<li>Close the PowerShell window</li>
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<h2>Testing AdGuard Home DNS</h2>

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	<li>Click the Start button &gt; Type control panel &gt; press Enter</li>
	<li>Click View By &gt; Small Icons</li>
	<li>Click Network and Sharing Center</li>
	<li>Click Change adapter settings</li>
	<li>Right click on the network connection &gt; Properties</li>
	<li>Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) &gt; Properties</li>
	<li>Select the radio option next to Use the following DNS server addresses</li>
	<li>Input the IP address of the AdGuard Home host</li>
	<li>Click OK on both of the open dialog windows</li>
	<li>Right click the Start button &gt; Command Prompt (Admin)</li>
	<li>Type the following commands to flush your DNS cache and restart the network connections (note: your network connection will drop if running the commands on a remote machine)
	<div class="codeBlock">ipconfig /flushdns<br />
	ipconfig /release<br />
	ipconfig /renew</div>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Getting-Started" target="_blank">https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Getting-Started</a></p>          </div>
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