Tools required, Activeperl (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/) Mercurial (http://mercurial.selenic.com) PSPad (the prefered text editor, http://www.pspad.com) TortoiseHG (http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/) grep (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm) 1) Install Activeperl 2) Install Mercurial, all defaults during install active 3) Install pspad 4) Open the command prompt, 4a) cd %USERPROFILE% 4b) hg clone https://fanboy-adblock-list.googlecode.com/hg/ fanboy-adblock-list 4c) cd fanboy-adblock-list 4d) cd .hg 4e) edit the file "hgrc" using pspad [paths] default = https://fanboy-adblock-list.googlecode.com/hg/ username = your name default-push = https://username:password@fanboy-adblock-list.googlecode.com/hg/ [ui] username = gmail-username@gmail.com verbose = true [extensions] rebase = fetch = (Note, use the googlecode password not the gmail password) Login to google/gmail first, then visit http://code.google.com/p/fanboy-adblock-list/source/list Get your password through the google profile menu, top right, profile then settings. Use this password in the "default-push" in 4e. 5) to use, make change to a file through pspad and save 5a) through the command prompt, 5b) cd %USERPROFILE% 5c) cd fanboy-adblock-list 5d) winscript format used when making changes, adding new filters --> winscript adzilla: #number adding additional filters --> winscript adzilla: #number r2 adding new elements --> winscript site: http://www.somesite.com/blah.html *Any false positives, need to be adzilla first. *Any new false positives created by a recent additions removing recent filters --> winscript adzilla: #number reverted see: filter-additions.txt examples of additions comments: http://code.google.com/p/fanboy-adblock-list/source/list Errors: "Authorization failed" only occurs if your user/password is incorrect, check your google profile password in 4e, as the password is case sensitive