Standalone executables are available for Windows. They do not require Python. You only need one of these, although you might want to download both, see notes below.

Description	File
Command-line	wik.exe (for win32)
GUI	wikgui.exe (for win32)

Which one do you want?

• These programs are virtually identical. The only difference is that wikgui.exe does not pop up a command shell when you run it, so is better for pure GUI usage.
• You might like having both: wikgui for point-and-click usage, and wik for doing admin tasks.
  
  
  If you've downloaded these before you may need to clear your browser cache to ensure you get the updated version(s).

No installation is required, just place wik.exe and/or wikgui.exe anywhere convenient (for command-line usage, you might want to place them in your PATH).

Now you are ready to start UsingWik or create a WikiOnAStick.

Issues?

If you have problems ...

• Make sure you did not rename the executables. Save them exactly as wik.exe or wikgui.exe. Due to py2exe behavior, the filename must not change.
• Make sure you did not save them directly to root of your C: drive (i.e. as c:\wik.exe or c:\wikgui.exe). They have to be stored in a subfolder. Like above, this is due to py2exe behavior.
• For Windows 2000 and earlier, if you get an error about missing GDI+, then you need to download the GDI+ SDK Redistributable. Unpack it to the same folder where you saved wikgui.exe.
• You must have MSVCR71.DLL and MSVCP71.DLL on your machine. If either of these are missing, wik.exe and wikgui.exe will fail to run.
  Unfortunately, the Microsoft license does not appear to allow redistribution of either MSVCR71.DLL or MSVCP71.DLL, so you will have to search for them.
  
  Be sure to check the md5sums of any DLL files before running them. For reference, the md5sums of the legitimate files are:

  Filename	md5sum	Search link
  MSVCR71.DLL	86f1895ae8c5e8b17d99ece768a70732	search
  MSVCP71.DLL	561fa2abb31dfa8fab762145f81667c2	search

  The last time I checked, DLL-files.com had the legitimate files.
• If you are running Windows 95/98/Me then you may also need to download w9xpopen.exe and place it in the same folder as wik.exe and/or wikgui.exe.
  
  
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