# Issue starting up hugo - "This app can't run on your PC"

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-starting-up-hugo-this-app-cant-run-on-your-pc/43577>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [March 23, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-starting-up-hugo-this-app-cant-run-on-your-pc/43577 "2023-03-23T02:27:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![hz.kt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@hz.kt](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hz.kt)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-starting-up-hugo-this-app-cant-run-on-your-pc/43577/1 "2023-03-23T02:27:21Z")

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I’m extremely new to hugo, and i’ve been trying to get the command prompt set up, i’ve set up a path variable.  
I’m running windows 11 22H2 and using an x64-based processor.  
every time i try running the “hugo version” command it keeps saying “this app cannot run on your pc”

i’m not entirely sure what the reason is, but i installed the amd64 version.

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**Author:** ![cshoredaniel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/cshoredaniel/32/19684_2.png) [@cshoredaniel](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/cshoredaniel)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-starting-up-hugo-this-app-cant-run-on-your-pc/43577/2 "2023-03-23T08:34:20Z")

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A couple of things:

1. You may have downloaded the wrong version. You need to expand the list of versions available (GitHub hides some of the options by default) and download [the windows version](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.111.3/hugo_extended_0.111.3_windows-amd64.zip)
2. You may need to ‘unblock’ the executable (Windows nowadays doesn’t like to let you run ‘unknown’ (i.e. not in the millions of known good downloads) binary without a manual action). You need to right click on the downloaded Zip file and select `Properties` and then tick the `Unblock` checkbox.

Or use Chocolately or winget.

HTH

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-starting-up-hugo-this-app-cant-run-on-your-pc/43577/3 "2023-03-25T08:34:31Z")

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