diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e99e36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.pyc
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/winclient/deploy.py b/winclient/deploy.py
index 8b8c520..6e88cd0 100644
--- a/winclient/deploy.py
+++ b/winclient/deploy.py
@@ -1,10 +1,61 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import os
+#import filever
+
+try:
+    input = raw_input
+except NameError:
+    pass
+
+def path_join(names):
+    result = names[0]
+    for i in range(1, len(names)):
+        result = os.path.join(result, names[i])
+    return result
+
+profile_path = None
+if "HOME" in os.environ:
+    profile_path = os.environ["HOME"]
+elif "USERPROFILE" in os.environ:
+    profile_path = os.environ["USERPROFILE"]
+else:
+    try_path = "C:\\Users\\jgustafson"
+    if not os.path.isdir(try_path): try_path = "C:\\Users\\Owner"
+    
+    print("WARNING: no HOME or USERPROFILE found, reverting to '" +
+        try_path + "'")
+    profile_path = try_path
+#region user settings
 deploy_path = "C:\\Games\\ENLIVEN-deploy"
+installer_deploy_path = path_join( [profile_path, "ownCloud", "www",
+                                  "expertmultimedia", "downloads"] )
+installer_name = "install-ENLIVEN.exe"
+#endregion user settings
+
+installer_path = os.path.join(installer_deploy_path, installer_name)
+
+if not os.path.isdir(installer_deploy_path):
+    print("#WARNING: does not exist:")
+print("installer_deploy_path: " + installer_deploy_path)
+
+#this is a waste--it just shows 0.0.0.0 though iss file has version
+#if os.path.isfile(installer_path):
+    #numbers=filever.get_version_number(installer_path)
+    #major,minor,subminor,revision = numbers
+    #print(".".join([str (i) for i in numbers]))
+
 if not os.path.isdir(deploy_path):
     os.makedirs(deploy_path)
 games_path = os.path.join(deploy_path, "games")
 game_path = os.path.join(games_path, "ENLIVEN")
+if not os.path.isdir(game_path):
+    print("")
+    print("ERROR: ENLIVEN must first be installed from web sources" +
+          " using the provided 'install' script in the etc/change*"
+          " folder and placed in " + game_path)
+    exit(1)
+else:
+    print("game_path: " + game_path)
 mods_path = os.path.join(game_path, "mods")
 if not os.path.isdir(deploy_path):
     os.makedirs(mods_path)
diff --git a/winclient/filever.py b/winclient/filever.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..500ecce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/winclient/filever.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#by Jamie at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/580924/python-windows-file-version-attribute
+try:
+    from win32api import GetFileVersionInfo, LOWORD, HIWORD
+except:
+    print("you need to install win32api such as with the command:")
+    print("python -m pip install --upgrade pip")
+    print("python -m pip install pypiwin32")
+    exit(1)
+    
+    from win32api import GetFileVersionInfo, LOWORD, HIWORD
+
+def get_version_number (filename):
+    try:
+        info = GetFileVersionInfo (filename, "\\")
+        ms = info['FileVersionMS']
+        ls = info['FileVersionLS']
+        return HIWORD (ms), LOWORD (ms), HIWORD (ls), LOWORD (ls)
+    except:
+        return 0,0,0,0
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  import os
+  filename = os.environ["COMSPEC"]
+  this_delimiter = "."
+  print(".".join ([str (i) for i in get_version_number (filename)]))