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Windows Version Support

The desktop client targets currently supported versions of Windows. Which edition you run decides how routine the install feels, and on older releases it decides whether the browser is the safer route.

Readers ask about Windows 7, 10 and 11 as though they were three different products to download. They are not. There is one desktop client offered from the official download page, and the difference between editions shows up in how the operating system handles it: the security prompts you see, whether system components the installer expects are present, and whether the machine underneath is still receiving fixes. That is the frame worth carrying through this page.

We publish no minimum version number here, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. Support windows move, builds change, and a number frozen into a sentence sends readers chasing a requirement that stopped being true. The live download page states what is offered right now for your platform, and it is the only place that can. Availability of the routes described here was checked against it on September 1, 2026.

Windows 11 compatibility

Windows 11 is the current release and the least eventful case. Desktop applications distributed as installers behave the way they have for years: you download the file, the system checks it, you confirm, and it installs. The extra hardware requirements Microsoft attached to Windows 11 itself work in your favour here, because a machine capable of running it comfortably runs a charting application comfortably too.

Two Windows 11 behaviours surprise people who last installed software a few years ago. The first is that the system may show a reputation warning for an installer it has not seen often, which is about how widely the file has been distributed rather than about what is inside it. The second is that some machines run with an app-source restriction enabled, which limits installs to store applications until you change the setting. Neither indicates a problem with the file, and both are covered in the setup section below.

Windows 10 support

Windows 10 is still the most common desktop environment readers write in from, and it is the version the install sequence was written for in most documentation you will find. There is nothing special to do: download, confirm the User Account Control prompt, install, launch. If a PC has been kept current with system updates, this route is uneventful.

The one thing worth checking on a Windows 10 machine is whether system updates have been deferred for a long stretch. A PC left years behind on updates can be missing components that modern installers assume are present, and the resulting failure message rarely names that as the cause. Installing pending system updates first turns a frustrating afternoon into a five-minute job, and it is the first thing our installation failure page asks you to rule out.

Older Windows 7 notes

Windows 7 needs an honest answer rather than a reassuring one. Microsoft no longer issues security updates for it, so a Windows 7 machine on the internet is running an operating system whose newly discovered flaws will not be fixed. That matters more than usual for a computer you sign into a trading account from, and it is true regardless of which platform or broker you use.

Whether the current desktop client installs and runs on such a machine is a question only the live download page and your own attempt can answer, and we will not guess at it. What we can say is what the sensible options are:

• Use the browser platform instead. It runs the traderoom in an ordinary browser tab, installs nothing, and keeps the software you are trading through current on the platform side.
• Keep the browser itself updated. Browser vendors maintained support for older Windows longer than Microsoft did, but not indefinitely, so check that yours is still receiving updates.
• Plan the machine's replacement or upgrade rather than working around it permanently. Every year on an unsupported system widens the gap.
• Do not hunt for an older installer from a software portal to get around a compatibility block. That trades one risk for a larger one.

None of this is a verdict on your computer. It is the same advice any security-minded guide would give about online banking on the same machine.

Treat the Windows edition as a question about how well maintained your machine is, not as three different downloads to choose between.

Getting the Installer

There is one correct origin for the desktop installer: the brand's own download page. Software portals and download aggregators repackage installers, and you cannot see what they added.

Desktop software has the same sourcing problem Android packages have, with one difference that works against you: a Windows installer runs with permission to change the system, granted by you at the security prompt. That makes where the file came from the most consequential decision on this page, ahead of anything about editions or settings.

The habit is short enough to make automatic. Reach the official download page by typing the address or from a bookmark, read the domain in the address bar before anything downloads, and take the Windows row from that page. When you are ready, see what the official page offers your PC and start there rather than from a search result.

Official download source

1. Open the official download page directly. Search results for brand plus download attract lookalike pages and paid entries that sit above the real one.
2. Check the domain before you click. Read the address to the left of the first slash; a convincing brand name in the middle of an unrelated domain is the standard pattern.
3. Take the Windows entry, not the biggest button. Download pages present several platforms and the prominent one is not always yours.
4. Let the download finish in one go. An interrupted installer produces failures that look like incompatibility and are not.
5. Note where the browser saved the file so you run the one you just downloaded rather than an older copy in the same folder.

Software portals deserve a specific mention because they look respectable. Many wrap the original installer in a downloader of their own, which may add bundled offers, changed defaults or a toolbar you did not ask for. Even where nothing is added, the copy is a snapshot of whatever version the portal captured, which may be well behind. Neither is a risk worth taking when the publisher's own page is one address away.

The correct architecture

Windows has run in both 32-bit and 64-bit forms for a long time, and installers sometimes offer a choice. Nearly every PC sold in the last decade runs 64-bit Windows, and you can confirm yours in the system information screen under settings, where the system type is stated plainly.

Where a download page offers one file with no choice, take it; publishers commonly ship a single installer that selects the right components for the machine. Where a choice exists, match your system type rather than guessing. A 32-bit application will usually run on 64-bit Windows, but the reverse does not work, and the error message when it fails is unhelpful enough that readers assume the download is corrupt.

Verifying the file

Verification on Windows is mostly a matter of reading what the operating system already tells you rather than comparing values by hand. We publish no file size or hash for the installer, because a figure we cannot check against the live file would fail correct downloads and mislead readers the moment the build changes.

• Read the publisher line in the security prompt. When Windows asks for permission to run an installer, it names the verified publisher where a valid signature exists. An unknown publisher on a file you believed came from an official page is worth stopping for.
• Check the file properties. The digital signatures tab in the file's properties dialogue shows whether the installer is signed and by whom.
• Compare against the page you downloaded from, not against a number published on a site like this one.
• Delete the installer once setup succeeds so an outdated copy cannot be run by mistake later.

Our Windows client guide goes further into what the desktop application offers once it is running; this page stays with getting it installed on each edition.

A Windows installer runs with your permission to change the system, so the download source deserves more care than any setting inside the installer.

Installing on Each Version

The install sequence is the same everywhere: run the file, confirm the system prompt, follow the installer, launch and sign in. What differs is which prompts appear and how they are worded.

Before you start, give the machine two things: free disk space beyond the size of the download, since installers unpack before they write, and a few minutes without other large downloads competing for the connection. Close any earlier copy of the application if one is running, because an installer cannot replace files that are in use, and the resulting error looks more serious than it is.

Windows 11 setup

1. Run the downloaded installer from the browser's download list or the folder it was saved to.
2. Confirm the User Account Control prompt. Read the publisher line it shows before you approve.
3. If Windows shows a reputation warning, check the publisher rather than clicking through reflexively. Where the file came from the official page and the publisher is named, proceeding is reasonable; where you are unsure of the source, stop.
4. If the system refuses non-store applications, the app-source setting is restricting installs. Change it in the apps section of settings, install, and set it back afterwards if you prefer that protection.
5. Follow the installer and accept the default location unless you have a reason not to.
6. Launch once and sign in to confirm the account loads before you need it.

Windows 10 setup

The Windows 10 sequence is the Windows 11 sequence with fewer interruptions. You will see the User Account Control prompt and possibly a reputation warning; the app-source restriction is less commonly enabled. Everything else is identical, including the recommendation to launch once immediately after installing rather than discovering a problem later.

Where an install fails on an otherwise healthy Windows 10 machine, work through the causes in order rather than re-downloading repeatedly: pending system updates not yet applied, insufficient free space, an earlier copy of the application still running, or a security product holding the file while it inspects it. That last one resolves itself after a short wait more often than readers expect.

Legacy-version caveats

On Windows 7 the honest position is that we cannot tell you the current client will install, and neither can any page that has not tried it on your machine today. If you attempt it, do so from the official page only, and treat a refusal as information rather than as a problem to route around. An installer that declines to run on an unsupported system is behaving correctly.

Where it does refuse, the browser platform is the answer that keeps working, and you can run the platform in a browser on a practice account to see how the traderoom behaves on that machine before committing to anything. Where it installs but behaves oddly, the browser is still the answer, because debugging a desktop application on an unsupported operating system is a poor use of an afternoon.

One thing not to do: install an older build sourced from a download portal because the current one refuses. That combines an unmaintained operating system with an unmaintained application and a file of unknown provenance, which is three problems where you started with one.

Launch and sign in immediately after installing, so any remaining problem surfaces while you still have time to deal with it.

Performance by Version

How the client feels depends far more on the machine's age, memory headroom and connection than on which Windows edition is printed on the box.

Readers often expect a table of specifications here. We do not publish one, because we have not benchmarked anything and a made-up minimum would be worse than no number at all. What we can describe is the shape of the problem: charting applications are steady, moderate consumers rather than spiky ones, and the usual limiting factor on an older PC is memory pressure combined with a mechanical hard drive rather than the processor.

Resource requirements

Judge your machine by observation rather than by a spec sheet. Open the platform, work with it as you normally would, and watch the task manager while you do.

• Memory headroom. If the system is close to fully committed before the platform opens, the platform will feel slow no matter how capable the processor is. Closing browser tabs frees more than most people expect.
• Storage type and free space. A drive with little room left and a mechanical disk both show up as sluggish startup and stuttering rather than as an error message.
• Chart count. Several charts with indicators running at once cost more than one; reducing them is the fastest improvement available on modest hardware.
• Background load. Sync clients, updaters and video calls compete for the same resources, and closing them is free.

Our system requirements page explains how to read your own machine's specification and why we publish no fixed minimums for any platform.

Update availability

The desktop client is not distributed through a store, so updates do not arrive silently in the background the way a phone app's do. In normal use the application prompts when a newer version is available and handles the replacement itself, which covers most readers. What it cannot do is update a copy that has not been opened for months, so a client you use rarely deserves a manual check before you rely on it.

On an older edition of Windows, update availability is the quieter risk. A build may keep working while newer ones stop targeting your system, leaving you on a version that is stable today and unpatched over time. That is another reason the browser route ages better on ageing hardware: the part being maintained is not on your machine.

Stability differences

Stability complaints usually trace back to the environment rather than to the edition of Windows. Graphics drivers left years out of date cause rendering oddities in chart-heavy applications; security software that inspects every file operation causes pauses that read as freezes; a connection that drops briefly causes reconnection behaviour that looks like a crash. Each is worth checking before concluding the client is at fault on your version.

Where a machine is unstable across several applications, the machine is the story. Where the platform alone misbehaves, reinstalling from the official page after fully closing the application resolves a fair share of cases, and the browser platform is the control experiment: if the traderoom is smooth in a browser on the same PC, the network and the account are fine and the issue is local to the installed client.

Measure your own machine under real use instead of matching it against a specification table nobody can verify for you.

Fallback Options

When the desktop route does not work out, nothing is lost. The browser platform reaches the same traderoom with no installation, and on older PCs it is often the better long-term answer.

The fallback is not a lesser version of the product in the way readers assume. It is the same platform reached differently, and on a computer that is shared, managed by an employer, short on storage or simply old, it removes every problem this page has described: no installer, no security prompt, no architecture question, no manual update.

The browser platform

Open a current browser, sign in, and the traderoom loads in a tab. There is nothing to install and nothing to keep current on your side, because the version you reach is whatever is deployed at the time you open it. That is the whole appeal.

• Works on a locked-down PC where you have no permission to install software.
• Leaves no installer to source, which removes the largest risk on this page entirely.
• Costs no disk space beyond the browser cache.
• Stays current automatically, provided you keep the browser itself updated.

Our web version page covers what the browser route gives you and where the installed client still has an edge, and our Mac guide applies the same reasoning on Apple hardware.

Web on older PCs

On an older machine the browser route asks for one thing in return: a browser that is still receiving updates. That is worth checking rather than assuming, because browser vendors do eventually stop supporting old operating systems, and an unsupported browser is the same problem as an unsupported operating system in a smaller box.

Practical steps on an older PC are unglamorous and effective. Run the platform in its own window with few other tabs open. Restart the browser before a session rather than leaving it running for weeks. Keep some free disk space so the cache has room. None of this is specific to trading software, and all of it makes a modest machine behave better than its age suggests.

When to upgrade

Upgrading is worth considering when the machine has stopped being a comfort and started being a variable. A few signals are clear enough to act on:

• The operating system no longer receives security updates. This is the strongest signal, and it applies to everything you do on the machine, not only to trading.
• The browser is no longer updating either. At that point the fallback has run out too.
• You are working around the machine daily, closing applications to make room for a chart or restarting to clear a slowdown.
• You are tempted by unofficial downloads to get something working. That temptation is the real cost of an ageing setup.

Until then, the sensible order is simple: try the current installer from the official page, and if the edition of Windows you are on makes that difficult, use the browser and keep it updated. Readers deciding between the desktop and mobile routes will find the wider comparison on our download overview.

The browser route is a legitimate destination rather than a consolation prize, and on an unsupported PC it is the safer of the two.