Manual installation on Windows

System requirements

At least 4GB of RAM
Windows 10 and above
AMD64 architecture
An active internet connection during installation.
An active internet connection for at least 2 hours per day to allow license check (for the PRO Edition only).

To install Ctfreak as a service, we will rely on sc command.

Copy downloaded ctfreak.exe binary to C:\ctfreak\ctfreak.exe.

Execute (as an administrator):

sc.exe create "Ctfreak" binpath= "C:\ctfreak\ctfreak.exe run" start= auto displayname= "Ctfreak"
sc.exe start "Ctfreak"

NB: As long as you have downloaded the executable from this site, you can ignore the warning message that the executable is unsigned.

To complete this installation, we encourage you to configure a reverse proxy.

Execute:

sc.exe stop "Ctfreak"
sc.exe delete "Ctfreak"

Delete C:\ctfreak folder.

Execute:

sc.exe stop "Ctfreak"

Copy new downloaded ctfreak.exe binary to C:\ctfreak\ctfreak.exe.

Execute:

sc.exe start "Ctfreak"