Installing NetBeans 10.0 on Windows

Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10.0 has just been released today (27th December 2018) and here is the information you need to install it on a Windows System.

Briefly the steps are:

Download the Binaries from: https://netbeans.apache.org/download/index.html
Extract the downloaded “zip” file to: C:\NetBeans_10.0
Check you have a “JDK” on your system (either JDK8, JDK11 or OpenJDK8, OpenJDK11)
Double click on: C:\Netbeans_10.0\bin\netbeans64.exe
NetBeans 10 will load (accept the defaults in the dialogs to install the Plugins, previous settings etc.)
Create Desktop & Menu Shortcuts (Start Menu path: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu)

Apache NetBeans Download site: https://netbeans.apache.org/download/index.html
Download Java JDK: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
PeaZip            : http://82.187.89.53/peazip-64bit.html 

Start Menu Path   : %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu