As mentionned in the comments, their installation is pretty much the same across Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 computers, but I prefer a slightly different method.
Chocolatey offers simple and straightforward installation on Windows 7+. The downside is, you need administrator account access. The emacs
package there is not always up to date, but it gets updated pretty regularly.
To use this method, open elevated Cmd/PowerShell and install the choco
package manager first, then update environmental variables:
refreshenv
and install either emacs64 package (which I recommend, if you have 64 bit Windows 10):
choco install emacs64
or emacs 32-bit:
choco install emacs
Now you can start Emacs from the start menu, or manually from the default location C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\runemacs.exe
. To update Emacs, use choco update emacs64
or choco update emacs
.