This guide is open source and maintained by ErCiccione, of the Monero community. If you have suggestions or wish to contribute to the development of this guide, feel free to open Pull Requests or Issues on the GitHub repository where this document is maintained: github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-GUI-guide.
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If you are on Windows:
- Make sure that your antivirus does not block the program.
A miner is included in the Monero GUI software and, as a result, most anti virus software flags the Monero GUI files as malware and subsequently quarantines them. Fortunately, however, there's a fairly trivial work around you can use. That is:
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Create a new directory / folder.
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Open your AV software.
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Add an exception for the newly created directory / folder. Put differently, you have to whitelist the newly created directory / folder.
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Extract the .zip file (in case of Windows) or the .tar.bz2 file (in case of Linux or Mac OS X) to the whitelisted directory / folder.
Note: if you're using Windows and did not install custom anti virus software, Windows Defender is, most likely, acting as active anti virus software.
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The first time you start the wallet you must give permission to connect to the network via a pop-up. Check the appropriate boxes and click
Allow access.
Some shortcuts are available to make the user experience with the GUI easier:
On all operating systems:
Press Ctrl to view each page shortcut. Press ctrl+"shortcut" to go to that page
On Linux/Windows:
ctrl + tab -> go to the next page
ctrl + shift + tab -> go to the previous page
On macOS:
cmd + tab -> go to the next page
cmd + shift + tab -> go to the previous page