0. Install Python 2.5 (http://python.org/download/releases/2.5.4/)

1. Install Darcs (http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Binaries, "Windows without Cygwin")

2. Add the Python and Darcs to the search path (rough translation from German Windows 2000):
Start -> Settings -> System control -> System -> Enhanced -> Environment variables -> System variables: add ";C:\Python25;C:\Python25\Scripts;C:\darcs-2.2.1-win1" to the "Path" entry

3. Install win32api for Python 2.5 (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018)
Note: Build 213 does not work on Windows 2000, Build 212 does.

4. Install Setuptools (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, Windows Installer for Python 2.5)

5. Download darcsver 1.2.1 from
    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/darcsver/1.2.1

6. Download Twisted, setuptools_darcs and setuptools_trial from
    http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:snrfwfxatrci35zdgjnzxxx2ke:unarxv347edtku3xzmefy4mcdmfngxzeb72iyqcadbjzjpczjx5a/index.html

7. Open the command line (cmd/command)

8. cd to your download directory

9. Run
    easy_install Twisted-8.2.0-py2.5-win32.egg

10. Decompress setuptools_darcs and setuptools_trial, cd into each directory and run
     python setup.py install

11. Get Tahoe from Darcs:
     darcs get --lazy http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk-hashedformat tahoe

12. cd to tahoe and build Tahoe:
     python setup.py build

13. Optional: run testcases:
     python setup.py test

    Summary on 2009-23-02 on Windows 2000:
{{{
Ran 558 tests in 1281.032s

FAILED (skips=8, expectedFailures=4, errors=1, unexpectedSuccesses=6, successes=
539)
}}}