2024-07-21 13:46:08
It’s clear that anyone who wants to enjoy a quality media center will have Kodi among their top options. If you want to use it on your Windows computer, you’ll be able to. We’ll tell you how.
When we want to enjoy live television, movies, series, music, podcasts and more options in one place, the first tool that many users think of is Kodi.
But who has doubts about whether this multimedia center can be installed on the device we want? Well, that is one of the most positive aspects of this software, since it is compatible with a multitude of devices and systems.
If you want to do it on your Windows computer, of course you will be able to install it.
In addition, we can also use Kodi on a Smart TV, on a tablet, on any type of smartphone, be it Android or iOS, on a Raspberry or on a Fire TV device.
Let’s leave the preambles and let’s see how you can install Kodi on your computer, Windows 11 or Windows 10.
Requirements to install it
In order to install Kodi on our computer we must look at certain requirements that we must meet for the program to work correctly.
The minimum requirements for Kodi to work on a computer with the Windows operating system are the following:
- Have Windows Vista, although Kodi recommends having at least Windows 10 as updated as possible.
- You must have an x86 or x86-x64 processor.
- You need 1GB of RAM, although 4GB is best.
- If your GPU doesn’t support hardware video decoding, then you should have a modern, capable processor to decode some types of video.
- The graphics card must support DirectX version 9.0 or higher.
- Graphics software drivers must support DirectX 11 9.1.
- Hard drive space should be between 4 and 8 GB, although Kodi recommends 16 GB.
This is how to install it on Windows
To install Kodi on Windows we must go to the official page of the tool and go to the download section and look for the Windows symbol.
Once we have clicked on it, we must choose if we want the version for 32 bits, 64 bits (depends on our computer) or go directly to the Windows Store to install from there.
Once we have it downloaded to our computer, it is time to install it.
To do this you just have to do the following:
- We go to where we saved the Kodi executable file and open it to begin the installation.
- After that we accept the terms of use.
- Next, we select to install Kodi and Microsoft C++ packages.
- The next step is to select the folder where we want to install it.
- Now it will begin to install on our computer.
- Once it is finished we can click on Finish or click on Run Kodi, so that when we click on Finish Kodi is launched automatically.
If we choose to install it using the Microsoft Storethe only thing you have to do is, once inside the window where Kodi appears, click on Obtain and wait for it to install automatically.
As you may have read, installing Kodi on Windows is extremely simple, and we have different options so that everyone can use the one they want.