Installing platform-tools on windows computer

Download

Get the latest version of the Platform Tools from the Android developers website or from the link below

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip

Create a folder

Create a folder in a location which would be easy to access.

In this screenshot i have created a folder named platform-tool in the c: drive

Extract the zip

• Next extract the zip file downloaded in the previous step into the newly created folder
• The extraction ( you do this by double clicking the zip file and showing it the location where to place the extracted files )

• Wait for the files to extracted completely. You would see a green progress line as shown in the screenshot while the extraction happens.

Run the commands

• Browse to the folder where you have extracted the files. In this example it would be the platform-tools folder in C: drive
• You will need to open a command prompt window inside this folder for adb or fastboot to work.

Open a command prompt window inside a folder in windows

• One of the ways to open a command prompt window inside a folder in windows is to check the address bar
• A normal address bar in Windows will show you the file path of the current folder

• Select the address bar and type cmd and hit enter

• This will open a command prompt window as shown here

• In this command prompt window you can now execute your adb or fastboot commands.