Installation and Registration Guide

EmEditor can be installed and registered in several ways. Choose the method that matches your environment, and follow the steps in that section.

Method

Deployment type

Updates

Intended for

Microsoft Store

Per user

Automatic

Quick set up

Per-user installation

Per user

Automatic

Power users

Per-machine installation

Per machine

Manual

IT admins

Microsoft Store (per-user)

This is the easiest way to start using EmEditor, and we recommend it for individual users.

  1. Open the EmEditor page in the Microsoft Store and install it.

  2. Use the free trial. When it ends, EmEditor will take you to the Microsoft Store where you can buy a subscription.

  • EmEditor updates automatically when a new version is available.

Per-user installation

This method installs EmEditor for the current Windows user only. It is intended for individual users who prefer to download directly from Emurasoft.

  1. Download emeditor64.appinstaller from the Download page.

  2. Run emeditor64.appinstaller to install EmEditor for the current user.

  3. Purchase an EmEditor subscription.

  4. In EmEditor, select Help > Registration Information, and click Sign In/Enter Registration Key.

  5. In the Register Product dialog, do one of the following.

    • Select Enter registration key, and enter the key sent to you by email.

    • Select Sign in, and sign in with your Emurasoft Customer Center credentials.

Notes

  • EmEditor updates automatically when a new version is available.

  • To unregister the license, use Help > Registration Information.

Per-machine installation

This method installs EmEditor for the whole machine, making it available to every user on the same Windows system. The license is registered per machine, so that only one registration is necessary for one machine. This method is intended for IT admins.

  1. Download the latest .msix installer from the Other download options section of the Download page. You can also get the latest installer from the Emurasoft Customer Center.

  2. In PowerShell with administrator rights, run the following command to provision the package for all users.

Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -PackagePath path\to\emed64_x.x.x.msix -Online -SkipLicense

  1. Purchase an EmEditor subscription.

  2. Register the license for the machine by running the following command. The previous step would have made emeditor.exe available in PATH. When the User Account Control (UAC) prompt appears, confirm it so that EmEditor can write the registration data to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EmSoft\EmEditor v3\Common.

emeditor /register /regname "Your Name" /regemail "[email protected]" /regkey "Registration Key" /reglabel "Device label"

  1. If you are deploying a VM image, you can create a snapshot of the VM at this point. It is safe to start using EmEditor from a snapshot taken from this step.

  2. The registration token stored in the registry expires after one year. To renew it for another year, run emeditor /registerrenew. We recommend running this command each time you update EmEditor.

Notes

  • When a user signs in to Windows, EmEditor is provisioned for that user automatically. User settings are stored in the user's own registry entries.

  • When the user launches EmEditor, it reads the registration data from the machine-wide registry entries, so no per-user registration is required.

  • Per-machine installations do not update automatically. To update, repeat step 2 with the newer .msix installer.

  • To unregister the license, use emeditor /unregister.