Just install Stability Matrix, gives you access and lets you install multiple generation apps, ReForge, Forge, Automatic, Comfy, Fooocus, and many more, even LORA creation tools. Let it handle all your syslinks for Models, so you don't have to switch between copy or create your own syslinks. This is the way. https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix More on reddit.com

Well, the best option for you will be this: https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui 1 click installer. More on reddit.com

Another option is to install Stability Matrix. This give you a one click install of most of the major front ends, as well as a central library to store all the models that is shared between the different front ends. It integrates well with CivitAI to download metadata for a lot of the models. https://lykos.ai/ More on reddit.com

man, first you must install python 3.10, put it in your environment variables PATH, if you dont know this you'll need to learn anyway, install git for windows, create a empty folder for your stable diffusion copy, git bash or run cmd and git clone https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge , after that in cmd you'll need setup a venv, still in cmd, python -m venv venv. it will create a folder venv, navigate till scripts folder and type activate, now your cmd will be in a virtual environment, still in cmd, return to your root folder where is the file requirements.txt, and type: pip install -r requirements.txt, wait till the process finishes, so assuming you have a nvidia card, you will need uninstall torch if it dont come with cuda, still in cmd in the virtual environment (called using activate in scripts) pip uninstall torch torchaudio torchvision. and go to the site pytorch.org and copy the link more suitable for your instalation of Forge. so in the cmd with the venv activated pip install (torch+cuda0, the link will be something like this: pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu124 . you'll problaby will make some mistakes in the process, but it's all pay attention in the steps, or you 'll be days trying and pulling the hair out of your head, but it's the way, because early or later, the system will crash and you will need to make all again. there are maybe some one click installers, but it's better not rely on them, maybe in forge github page can be one. this cover the basics, maybe I forgot something. good luck. More on reddit.com