--- title: Set up Fleet AI on your PC description: Connect your Windows PC to Fleet AI in about five minutes. What you need, how to run the installer, what the Windows warnings mean, automatic sign-in, keeping the PC awake, and how to uninstall. --- # Set up Fleet AI on your PC Fleet AI works on your own Windows PC, in the software you already use: Sage 50, QuickBooks, Excel, a web browser. This guide connects that PC to your Fleet AI account. It takes about five minutes. ## Before you start You need: - **A Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC (64-bit)** that stays on during working hours. Use the PC that already runs your accounting software. - **A Windows account that can install software.** If the PC is managed by someone else, ask them to run the installer with you. - **Your Windows password, not your PIN.** Many people sign in to Windows with a PIN or their face, and the installer needs the password behind it. See [Your Windows password](#your-windows-password) if you're not sure what it is. - **About 5 minutes**, and a Fleet AI account at [app.tryfleet.ai](https://app.tryfleet.ai). **Already on V2 Cloud?** Install Fleet on your V2 Cloud desktop. It runs in the data centre around the clock, so nobody has to keep a PC on, awake or plugged in, and step 6 mostly takes care of itself. Leave *Keep the desktop running after you close Remote Desktop* ticked in step 4. > **While Fleet works, it uses this PC's mouse and keyboard.** Let it work when nobody needs the > PC, or set a PC aside for it. You can watch it live, stop it, or take over at any time. ## 1. Get the installer and your setup code Do this **on the PC you want Fleet to use**: 1. Sign in to Fleet AI at [app.tryfleet.ai](https://app.tryfleet.ai). 2. Open **Computers** and click **Add computer**. 3. Download the installer, `fleet-agent-setup.exe` (about 185 MB). 4. Copy the **setup code** shown in the same window. Keep the window open: you'll come back to it. ## 2. Run the installer Open the file you downloaded. Windows shows a few warnings along the way. They are normal for a program that installs a service, and here is what to click: - **"This file isn't commonly downloaded"** (your browser): choose **Keep**. In Edge, this is under the **…** menu next to the download. - **"Windows protected your PC"** (Microsoft Defender SmartScreen): click **More info**, check that the app is `fleet-agent-setup.exe`, then click **Run anyway**. SmartScreen shows this for programs it hasn't seen installed many times yet. - **"Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?"** (User Account Control): check that the publisher is **V2 Cloud**, then click **Yes**. Fleet AI is built by the team behind V2 Cloud, and the installer is signed with V2 Cloud's certificate, so Windows shows V2 Cloud as the publisher. ## 3. Paste the setup code When the installer asks for it, paste the setup code from step 1 and continue. The code connects this PC to your account. If it doesn't work, get a new one from the **Add computer** window in Fleet and try again. ## 4. Keep this computer ready: automatic sign-in Fleet works on a signed-in Windows desktop. If the PC restarts, for example after a Windows update, and stops at the sign-in screen, Fleet can't work until someone signs in. So the installer's **Keep this computer ready** page offers to **sign in to Windows automatically when the computer starts**: - The **user name** is filled in for the account you're using. Leave it as it is. - Type that account's **Windows password**: not your PIN (see below). Windows checks it straight away and stores it securely on this PC. - Leave **Keep the desktop running after you close Remote Desktop** ticked. It only matters if you connect to this PC with Remote Desktop. Don't want automatic sign-in? Untick it. Fleet still works, but after every restart someone has to sign in to the PC before it can. ### Your Windows password - **You sign in with a PIN, fingerprint or face.** Those are shortcuts. Your account still has a password, and that's the one the installer needs. - **You sign in with an email address (a Microsoft account).** Your Windows password is your Microsoft account password. Forgot it? Reset it at [account.live.com/password/reset](https://account.live.com/password/reset), then sign in to Windows once with the new password. - **Your Microsoft account is "passwordless".** It has no password to type. Turn passwordless off at [account.microsoft.com](https://account.microsoft.com) under **Security** to set one, or untick automatic sign-in. - **The PC is on a company network** (you sign in as `COMPANY\name`). Ask whoever manages your PCs; automatic sign-in may be turned off by policy. ## 5. Finish, and go back to your browser Click **Install**, then **Finish**. Go back to Fleet in your browser: the computer appears in the **Add computer** window and under **Computers**, usually within a minute. ## 6. Keep the PC awake Fleet can only work while the PC is on, awake and signed in: - **Sleep:** open **Settings → System → Power** (Windows 10: **Power & sleep**) and set sleep to **Never** when plugged in. The screen turning off is fine. - **Laptops:** keep it plugged in, and leave the lid open (or set closing the lid to **Do nothing** in the power settings). - **Don't lock it** when you walk away from it for Fleet: a locked screen stops a run. The installer turns off the screen saver's lock for this reason. If an unlocked PC is a concern, put it somewhere private, or set one aside for Fleet. - **Restarts are fine** with automatic sign-in on. Shutting down is not: a scheduled run can't start on a PC that's off. ## Uninstall 1. On the PC, open **Settings → Apps → Installed apps** (Windows 10: **Apps & features**). 2. Find **Fleet AI**, then click **…** (or select it) and **Uninstall**. 3. In Fleet, remove the computer from **Computers**. Uninstalling also turns off the automatic sign-in the installer set up. ## Need help? Email [support@tryfleet.ai](mailto:support@tryfleet.ai) with the computer's name and what you see on screen (a photo or screenshot helps). More ways to reach us: [Support](/support).