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            <h1>Install Actual Budget - Open Source Finance Management - on Windows</h1>
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          <h2>What is Actual Budget?</h2>

<blockquote><em>Actual is a local-first personal finance tool. It is 100% free and open-source, written in NodeJS, it has a synchronization element so that all your changes can move between devices without any heavy lifting. -<a href="https://github.com/actualbudget/actual" target="_blank">https://github.com/actualbudget/actual</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installing Actual Budget</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Windows device</li>
	<li>Download the latest Actual Budget release <a href="https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/releases/latest" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download NodeJS 16 <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/download/prebuilt-installer/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download Git for Windows <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.46.2.windows.1" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_917989_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++ </label><label for="cb_li_917989_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li>Install Microsoft Visual C++</li>
	<li>Install Git for Windows, accepting all the defaults</li>
	<li>Install NodeJS, accepting all the defaults</li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded Actual Budget files</li>
	<li>Rename the extracted folder actualbudget</li>
	<li>Cut the actualbudget folder to a location it can safely run from, C:\Apps\actualbudget in this example</li>
	<li>Right click the Start button &gt; Settings &gt; System &gt; About</li>
	<li>Click the Advanced system settings option</li>
	<li>Click the Environment Variables...</li>
	<li>Edit the System Path variable</li>
	<li>Click the New button</li>
	<li>Add the Git for Windows \bin directory (ie C:\Program Files\Git\bin)</li>
	<li>Click OK to all open dialog windows</li>
	<li>Click on the Start menu &gt; type cmd &gt; Right click on Command Prompt &gt; Run as administrator</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in the Command Prompt window
	<div class="codeBlock CMD"># change directory to actualbudget, C:\Apps\actualbudget in this example<br />
	cd C:\Apps\actualbudget<br />
	# update npm<br />
	npm install -g npm<br />
	# install yarn<br />
	npm install -g yarn<br />
	# fix dependencies<br />
	yarn install<br />
	# run actual<br />
	yarn start</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3001</li>
	<li>Click the Don&#39;t use a server link</li>
	<li>Click Start Fresh</li>
	<li>Welcome to Actual Budget</li>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://actualbudget.org/docs/install/local/" target="_blank">https://actualbudget.org/docs/install/local/</a></p>          </div>
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