Emacs and Microsoft Windows

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
• C:\Program Files\Emacs\x86_64\share\emacs\VER\README.W32 – read it! for serious!
• C:\Program Files\Emacs\x86_64\bin\ – where the utilities are located
• https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
• https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/

I use to download and install emacs-VER-x86_64.zip , it contains “a large number of optional dependencies for Emacs” – maybe you want to install that into c:\opt\emacs-VER\.

emacs-VER-installer.exe – a Windows installer – installs into C:\Program Files\Emacs\ .

Utilities described in the README.32 – read their entries (!):

• addpm.exe
• runemacs.exe