Veloda
Installing Veloda on Windows
Four clicks, and one blue warning screen that catches people out. Here is exactly what you will see.
A stylised walkthrough — your Windows may word things slightly differently.
- Download the installer from the download section. If your browser asks whether to keep the file, choose Keep — browsers say that about every program you download.
- Open the downloaded file. Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen with only a "Don't run" button. This is expected — read the next step before closing it.
- Click More info, then Run anyway. The "More info" link is what reveals that button.
- The installer takes a few seconds. It installs for your account only: no administrator password, and nothing is written outside your own folder. Veloda opens when it finishes.
Why does Windows warn about Veloda? Not because anything is wrong with the file. Windows trusts a program once its publisher has bought a code-signing certificate and enough people have installed it. Veloda is new and independent, so SmartScreen has not met it yet — every small publisher starts here, and the warning fades as more people install it. Rather than ask you to take our word for it, every download on our site publishes its SHA-256 so you can check the file yourself:
Check the file is genuinely ours (optional). Open PowerShell in your Downloads folder and run the line below, then compare the result with the checksum printed next to the download. If they match character for character, the file arrived exactly as we built it — and if they do not, delete it and tell us.
Get-FileHash .\veloda-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Prefer no installation at all? The portable ZIP on the download page needs no installer: unzip it anywhere — a USB stick, a work PC you cannot install on — and run veloda.exe. The same blue screen may appear the first time; the same two clicks get past it.
Something else went wrong. If the installer cannot fetch Microsoft's WebView2 runtime, Veloda still installs and runs. If the app will not start at all, write to [email protected] and say what Windows told you — that message is usually the whole answer.