Dexi Desktop Portable User Guide
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This portable pack can run from a USB drive, SD card, external drive, or normal folder.

Start Dexi Desktop:
1. Open START-HERE-DEXI-DESKTOP.bat.
2. Paste the Private Desktop Link code from P2Pprivate.ai.
3. Click Save Link.
4. Click Start Local AI.
5. Click Start Dexi after the website approves the computer.

Local AI runtime:
- Dexi includes runtime\dexi-runtime.exe, the portable runtime supervisor.
- For full local model execution, place the full engine binary in runtime\bin as dexi-engine.exe or ollama.exe.
- Dexi can also fall back to installed Ollama on the computer.

Portable model storage:
- runtime\models

Portable Dexi settings:
- data\provider.json

Contribution mode:
Dexi checks out approved jobs from P2Pprivate.ai, runs them locally, and posts results back. It does not need tunnels, router changes, port forwarding, or UPnP.

Helpful files:
- START-DEXI-RUNTIME.bat
- STOP-DEXI-RUNTIME.bat
- CHECK-DEXI-RUNTIME.bat
