How to Install ComfyUI in 1-Click – Latest New Desktop Version
Introduction
Hello there and welcome!
NOW, is finally a great time to install and start using ComfyUI. The all new desktop version of ComfyUI, was released back in October 2024, and has now had all the initial bugs and issues resolved. It comes bundled with a whole host of improvements and updates, auto-installs a python environment, and includes ComfyUI Manager as standard. Even better, is that this all new version of ComfyUI, now comes with a 1-click installer, which makes the whole installation process, super quick and easy.
There’s a growing trend, for new AI Tools, to be released exclusively for use with ComfyUI, which means, that if we want to use these latest AI tools locally, we can only do so with ComfyUI.
ComfyUI used to have an intimidating, steep technical learning curve, in order to use it and create workflows, but now with the huge availability of free, quality workflow templates, from the ComfyUI community, covering pretty much every scenario we could imagine, ComfyUI is now a realistic choice, for the majority of people, who just want a plug and play UI, with minimal technical skills required. Of course, it continues to offer complete technical flexibility, for those who want to build workflows from scratch and get their hands dirty.
On top of all these new benefits, remains the biggest benefit of all, which is that ComfyUI can pretty much do anything we need, without any of the restrictions found with many other alternative UIs.
So, if you’ve been debating whether to take the ComfyUI leap, then now is a great time to do so.
In this video, I’ll walk through the quick and easy, step-by-step process, to install the latest version of Comfy UI on a Windows 11 PC, using the 1-click installer.
I’ll leave all the links and references that I cover in this tutorial, in the Reources section at the end.
So, let’s crack on.
Download ComfyUI 1-Click Installer
We first need to download the Comfy UI Desktop 1-click installer.
We’ll open the official Comfy UI Desktop GitHub page in our browser. We’ll scroll down the page a bit, to the “Download” section. There’s installer files, for both Windows and MacOS here. I’m running Windows, so we’ll click the “Windows Download” file link. This is the latest stable version of ComfyUI. On the “Save As” window, we’ll navigate to the root of my E drive, then click “Save”, to save the file here. The file won’t take long to download.
Install ComfyUI
Once the file has finished downloading, we can see this “ComfyUI Setup dot exe” file, in my E drive. We’ll double-click this file to begin the installation process. On the opening “Welcome to ComfyUI” window, we’ll just click the “Get Started” button. On the next “GPU” window, our correct GPU will be detected automatically. If for some reason your GPU is not automatically detected, you can click the “Manual Configuration” button to select it. Then we’ll click the “Next” button.
On the next “Install Location” window, the top box, gives us the option to change the default location for our ComfyUI user data part of the installation. Our user data is our working directory that we’ll use to to save any files that we generate with ComfyUI, and also the location that we download and save any additional models, custom nodes and other files that we want to use with ComfyUI. The default location is under our username on our C drive, but if at a later date, we need to reinstall our computer for any reason, then all data on our C drive will be deleted, including all of our generations and custom downloads. So it’s best to install the user data part of the installation, in a different location to where we have Windows installed.
We’ll install the user data in a new folder named “ComfyUI” in my E drive. We’ll click the small folder icon, navigate to the root of my E drive, right-click in an empty space, select “New”, then “Folder”. We’ll rename our new folder to “ComfyUI”, click off to deselect it, then click it to select it, then finally click the “Select Folder” button. We can now see our new ComfyUI folder in my E drive, correctly inserted in the user data directory location. We won’t worry about the “Directory already exists” message, as we DO want to install everything into our existing “ComfyUI” folder that we just created. The bottom box, has the installation locations for the actual ComfyUI app, which we can’t, and don’t need to change anyway. Then we just click the “Next” button.
On the next “Migration” window, if we HAD installed ComfyUI previously, then it’s at this stage, that we could link to our “user data” folder, to access and use everything again. We don’t have a previous installation, so we’ll just click the “Next” button.
On the last “Desktop Settings” window, we’ll just leave the options enabled by default, and click the “Install” button, to begin the installation. The installation will auto-install everything, so it’ll take a while to finish.
Conclusion
Eventally everything will complete, and if ComfyUI launches automatically, then congratulations, you’ve just installed ComfyUI successfully.
Now you know how to install the latest version of Comfy UI on a Windows 11 PC, the quick and easy way using the 1-click installer.
Anyway, hope you found this tutorial helpful, and I’ll catch you in the next one.
Resources
Links
Official Comfy UI Desktop 1-Click installer Download:
https://github.com/Comfy-Org/desktop
