Starting the Program

Starting the Blender Program

How you start Blender depends on how you have installed the program (see; Download &

Installation). If you have used the MSI installer option for Windows, Blender will be in the

Program Files directory on your C: Drive and a shortcut icon will have been placed on your

desktop. If you have installed to a Window 10 operating system, Blender will be listed in the File

Explorer under, Program Files\ Blender Foundation\ Blender 2.92.0

Desktop Shortcut

Windows 10 File Explorer

Blender 2.92

Blender 2.92

To start the program double click the desktop

icon or double click the Blender Application

file in File Explorer.

If you have downloaded and unzipped the compressed (ZIP) file for Blender the blender.exe

application file will be located in the folder where you unzipped the compressed file. Open the

folder and sub folder, and double click

or right click and select Open. The blender

icon is the blender.exe file,

To make life easier you may create a shortcut Desktop Icon associated with the blender.exe file.

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