Hello to all those looking to get into Aeon but have never used the GUI wallet before. This How-To will be to help anyone with downloading and setting up a new wallet with Windows or MacOS. Never used Aeon-GUI before? Well here is your chance to get started:

Select your operating system-specific download for the proper GUI.

First we want to head on over to GitHub or the official AEON website and download the latest release of Aeon-Gui. If you feel comfortable compiling yourself clone the master and take a stab at it. For this how-to, we will be using the release version. If you have MacOS or Linux Distros, simply click the tarball file to download it. Then on your device, select your download location and extract the zip file. If you are using Windows (Windows 10 for this how-to purposes), skip down to the windows installation part.

MacOS Installation:

MacOS unzip folder. Open it to view the App

Move from the downloads folder to the applications folder.

Now that we have installed Aeon-GUI on MacOS lets open it. Oh wait, what’s this!??!! What? What’s going on?

OSX doesn’t think Aeon-GUI is a legitimate program. Well, we know it’s the legitimate Aeon GUI since we downloaded it from the official github account. Always make sure you ONLY download Official Aeon software from the official AEON github account or your precious Aeon’s may not be safe. Click “OK” and head on over to Settings and then Security/Privacy.

Click “Open Anyway” to get started with the Aeon GUI startup.

We know where we downloaded the file from so click “Open Anyway”

WINDOWS INSTALLATION:

Before we download the Wallet GUI app zip we need to create a folder and let our virus scanner program know this folder is ok and to ignore files in this location. This is also useful for miner applications like XMR-Stak or XMrig where windows will automatically delete the file upon download. So let’s make an exception by using Cortana to find “Windows Defender Security Center”:

Ok. Now that we have clicked that lets move to Virus Threat Settings:

Ok, now lets scroll all the way down to the “Exclusions” option:

Now we have to create a new folder and put that folder on the exclusions list so that windows defender passes over it when scanning:

Ok, so finally windows will let us download the program we already knew was ok in the first place. Let’s download the latest release to this folder and unzip the contents.

HOLY SMOKES! There is like 20874325 files and folders in the zip. What do I click?

Ok, finally we are making progress on Windows. We are ready to get started with AEON-GUI. Lets click the executable and get rolling making a new wallet file with our new program. If you encounter issues with the application closing or errors opening, scroll down in the file folder and run the “start-low-graphics-mode” batch file. Some windows computers can not handle some graphics and this allows the program to use less system resources to run it.

Feel free to copy the batch file and make a desktop link for ease of opening so you don’t have to go to the folder every time to open the application.

Well we now have the application downloaded and ready to run on either MacOS or Windows 10. Let’s get rolling on opening it and creating a wallet file for the first time. If you already have a wallet file from the CLI you can simply copy paste the wallet.dat and wallet.keys to the GUI folder on windows or if using MacOS, the file locations for the wallet are the same for CLI or GUI wherever you select when setting up the wallet the first time.