How to Install MobaXterm Portable Edition on Windows?

MobaXterm is the ultimate remote computing toolkit. It includes a plethora of features in a single Windows application that is intended for programmers, webmasters, IT administrators, and pretty much all users who need to conduct their distant jobs in a more straightforward manner. MobaXterm brings all of the essential remote network tools (SSH, X11, RDP, VNC, FTP, MOSH,…) and Unix commands (bash, ls, cat, sed, grep, awk, rsync,…) to the Windows desktop in a single portable exe file that works right away.

There are numerous benefits to using an All-In-One network program for your remote operations. For example, when you use SSH to connect to a distant server, a graphical SFTP browser will automatically show up allowing you to directly edit your remote files. Using the embedded X server, your remote apps will also appear flawlessly on your Windows desktop.

Steps to Install MobaXterm Portable Edition on Windows

Step 1: Search for Mobaxterm download on Google. Search Mobaxterm download and click on the first link.

Step 2: Select Edition. We’ll select the Home Edition as it has limited features free to use. Click on Download now button.

Step 3: Select the version for the home edition. MobaXterm home edition is available in two versions i.e. Portable and Installer. We’ll choose Portable Edition. Click on the Portable Edition button.

Step 4: Extract the downloaded file contents.

The downloaded file contents

Click on extract to extract all the files

Step 5: Initialize the software. After extracting, an executable file will be displayed as MobaXterm_Personal_22.2.exe. Click on that file.

MobaXterm will be started. Click on Start local terminal

We’ll try some commands on the terminal to check whether the terminal is working fine.

On trying the ls and ps commands, we can clearly see that the terminal is working properly. and hence MobaXterm Xserver is successfully installed on Windows.