• Rocky Bytes News RSS Feed
  • Rocky Bytes in Facebook
  • Rocky Bytes Youtube Channel
  • Rocky Bytes in Twitter
More than 50,000 Windows Programs downloaded every day!

How to Install Hotspot Shield

Learn how to install Hotspot Shield.

Rocky Bytes Score
Hotspot Shield is Great!
Great!
Software Ranking
3rd out of 39
Downloaded
59,454
Times

In order to follow this guide you will need to download Hotspot Shield. Please click the green button below.

Welcome to the installation guide for Hotspot Shield, which will teach you how to install and first use the application. Make sure you have downloaded Hotspot Shield by clicking the download link above. Once you have gone through our secure launcher and arrived at the Hotspot Shield set-up, you are ready to proceed to the first step.

First, you will notice how you are prompted right away to install the application. Click on install to install Hotspot Shield:

How to install Hotspot Shield

After you have done that, just allow Hotspot Shield to install and ready itself for it's first launch:

Hot to install Hotspot Shield

Once it is finished installing, you can go straight into the application by choosing to launch it directly from the installation window. In this tutorial, we are going to launch it so we can get the program running for the first time. So make sure "Launch Hotspot Shield when finished" is checked, and click "Finish":

How to install Hotspot Shield

When you do this, nothing will pop up initially, but Hotspot Shield is running and can be found in your taskbar by your clock. The icon should look like this: How to install Hotspot Shield. Click on it to open the connection dialog window. When you do, you should see this window down by your clock:

How to install Hotspot Shield

We are going to connect to the Hotspot Shield secure network so we can secure our connection. To do this, click on the green connect button. Once you have done that, Hotspot Shield will search for the best connection for you and connect you to their secure network:

How to install Hotspot Shield

After you have done that, Hotspot Shield should connect to it's secure network and you should be good to go for your first launch. Once you have connected, your connection will be secure and the dialog window will give you information on how much data has been secured and where you are connecting to:

How to install Hotspot Shield

There you have it. Hotspot Shield is installed and you are now connected to their secure network, which secures your Internet connection. 

Other Hotspot Shield Tutorials and Guides

How to Use Hotspot Shield

How to Use Hotspot Shield

Learn how to use Hotspot Shield.

This tutorial will show you how to do the basics with Hotspot Shield. It is important that you already have Hotspot Shield installed in order to use this tutorial. If you don't have it installed, please refer ...

Hotspot Shield Related News Posts

Hotspot Shield vs Psiphon: Best online censorship circumvention tool

Hotspot Shield vs Psiphon: Best online censorship circumvention tool

In past articles, we’ve covered several online censorship circumvention tools, especially Hotspot Shield and Psiphon. Now it’s time to compare these two in this Hotspot Shield vs Psiphon article and see which one comes out on top as we did in Psiphon vs Ultrasurf article.

Psiphon fixes mobile data-plan bug and prove they play by the rules!

Psiphon fixes mobile data-plan bug and prove they play by the rules!

Psiphon is one of the best internet censorship circumvention tools in the world and here at Rocky Bytes, we’ve spoken at length about its history helping people around the world get through unjust censorship and outright blockage of internet services by less than agreeable governments. Censorship ...

Hotspot Shield’s New Expansion: Protecting MENA from attacks and hacking

Hotspot Shield’s New Expansion: Protecting MENA from attacks and hacking

On Rocky Bytes, we like Hotspot Shield. We’ve featured it more in our comparison battles between the different censorship circumvention tools in our article: Best internet privacy and anti-censorship tools: Tor, Hotspot Shield and Ultrasurf. It’s one of the most prominent tools for ...