Quick answer
Download the ComfyUI Windows portable package from the official GitHub releases page and extract it with 7-Zip. The Manager is now built into ComfyUI, so you only need to install its dependencies with one pip command and start ComfyUI with the --enable-manager flag. If you use ComfyUI Desktop, the Manager is already included and enabled.
Before you start
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The Manager used to be a separate custom node that you installed with git. In current versions it is built into ComfyUI itself, so the setup is shorter than most older tutorials show.
1. Download and extract ComfyUI
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2. Install the Manager dependencies
Open a terminal in the ComfyUI_windows_portable folder (type cmd in the Explorer address bar) and run:
.\python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install -r ComfyUI\manager_requirements.txt3. Start ComfyUI with the Manager
Put run_with_manager.bat from this page into the same folder and double-click it. It runs:
.\python_embeded\python.exe -s ComfyUI\main.py --windows-standalone-build --enable-manager[Screenshot: the Manager button in the ComfyUI menu]
4. Install your first custom node
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Common problems
The Manager button does not show up
Make sure you started ComfyUI with the --enable-manager flag, for example with the run_with_manager.bat file from this page, not the original run file.
pip says it cannot find manager_requirements.txt
Run the command from inside the ComfyUI_windows_portable folder, not from the ComfyUI subfolder.
Do I still need to git clone ComfyUI-Manager?
Not for current portable versions. The official docs now list the git clone method as a legacy install method.