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Installing Jan on Windows

System Requirements​

Ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

  • Windows 10 or higher is required to run Jan.

To enable GPU support, you will need:

  • NVIDIA GPU with CUDA Toolkit 11.7 or higher
  • NVIDIA driver 470.63.01 or higher

Installation​

Jan is available for download via our homepage, https://jan.ai.

For Windows, the download should be available as a .exe file in the following format.

jan-win-x64-{version}.exe

The typical installation process takes around a minute.

GitHub Releases​

Jan is also available from Jan's GitHub Releases page, with a recommended latest stable release.

Within the Releases' assets, you will find the following files for Windows:

# Windows Installers
jan-win-x64-{version}.exe

Default Installation Directory​

By default, Jan is installed in the following directory:

# Default installation directory
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Programs\Jan

Uninstalling Jan​

To uninstall Jan on Windows, use the Windows Control Panel.

To remove all user data associated with Jan, you can delete the /jan directory in Windows' AppData directory.

cd C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming
rmdir /S jan