Installing Power Automate Desktop

Introduction

 

In this article, we will see how to install Power Automate Desktop (PAD) on your Windows 10 machine. 

 

Steps

 

Step 1

 

In the browser type in aka.ms/getstarted-pad

 

 

Step 2

 

You should be navigating to the Power Automate Desktop portal, where there is a link to download the software.

 

 

Step 3

 

Double click on the installer that is downloaded into your machine.

 

 

Step 4

 

Make a note of the version. Yhe latest version while this document is prepared and published is 2.7.49.21009. Click on ‘Next’.

 

 

Step 5

 

It will be navigated to the installation details section, where you have the option to select the drive it can install. Please make sure the option ‘Install web drivers’ is checked. This is required to record the browser actions. The rest of the options you can leave as default. Click on ‘Install’.

 

 

Step 6

 

You might be prompted with a message ‘Do you want this app to make changes'. Click on yes.

 

 

Step 7

 

Now you should see a window with ‘Progress tracker’. Wait for the installation to be finished.

 

 

Step 8

 

Finally, you should be getting the below message. Make sure to install the browser extension.

 

 

Step 9

 

Clicking on the links will directly open the respective browser and enables the extension for you. For this case, I have clicked on ‘Microsoft Edge’.

 

 

It opens the latest edge browser, and click on ‘Get’. after that then it prompts for message and clicks on ‘Add Extension.

 

 

Step10

 

Verify that the power automate addon is enabled.

 

 

Step 11

 

Restart your computer to have the PAD designer ready with all dependencies activated. 

 

Conclusion 

 

In this article, we have seen step-by-step instructions on how to install the Power Automate Desktop tool on your Windows 10 machine. 

 

References

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z19CAWq1tK8&ab_channel=RezaDorrani
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwEdG1JAiqk&ab_channel=AprilDunnam