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title: "Installation on Windows | Guides | Map tiling hosting | Data processing"
description: "Step-by-step guide to installing MapTiler Engine on Windows."
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# Install MapTiler Engine on Windows

This page describes the installation of [MapTiler Engine](https://www.maptiler.com/engine/) on Windows. To make sure that your version of Windows is supported, check the [technical specification](https://docs.maptiler.com/guides/map-tiling-hosting/data-processing/maptiler-engine-technical-specification/).

1.  Get the installation package from the [Engine download page](https://www.maptiler.com/engine/download/).
    
    In Microsoft Edge, you may get a notification that the app isn’t commonly downloaded, and to make sure you trust it. Go to the notification menu and select **Report this file as safe**, then **Keep** to complete the download.
    
    ![](./25713616182289_70cefb1ec5.png)
    
2.  Run the installation. It uses a standard Windows installation wizard to guide you through the process.
    
    Note
    
    If you get a blue warning “Windows protected your PC”, it means that the digital signature of the installation package hasn’t been added to the Microsoft’s database of known apps yet. Click on **More information** to see the name of the app and its certified publisher, which is “MapTiler AG”. Then click **Run anyway** to start the installation. ![Windows protected your PC](https://docs.maptiler.com/guides/on-prem/server/img/windows-install-smartscreen.png)
    
3.  Go through the installation to complete it. You’ll go over the following settings:
    
    -   The **installation directory** where the MapTiler Engine application will be located.
    -   The file extensions that should be associated with MapTiler Engine, indicating which files should be opened with MapTiler Engine by default.

We recommend to keep the pre-filled default values if you don’t have a specific reason to change them.

After a successful installation, MapTiler Engine starts automatically.

## Windows Firewall

At the first start, you may get a prompt from Windows Firewall, asking you to specify network traffic rules for MapTiler Engine. This happens because Windows Firewall doesn’t have any rules for MapTiler Engine by default, and doesn’t know if it’s safe to allow network communication to the app.

To make sure that MapTiler Engine works correctly, we recommend that you select **Allow**. If you cancel the prompt, Windows Firewall creates a rule for all incoming traffic to MapTiler Engine and sets it to “Block”. In this case, most MapTiler Engine features will still function normally, but you may experience problems in situations such as accessing the license server to activate a MapTiler Engine license.

![](./engine-firewall.png)

## What’s next

If you’re new to MapTiler Engine, we recommend that you [create map tiles from a sample image](https://docs.maptiler.com/guides/map-tilling-hosting/data-processing/getting-started/) to see how the basic tiling process works.