Installing MongoDB on Windows 7

I was trying to install MongoDB on Windows 7 recently and was having some trouble getting it to work. It doesn’t help that the installer fails silently, not telling you why it won’t install. All you know is that you ran the install command and there’s no MongoDB service installed. Anywhere, here are the two gotcha’s I ran into:

1. You need to run the command prompt as administrator.
2. You need to have the full path to the exe when you run the install command, e.g.:
   c:\mongodb-1.4.0\bin\mongod.exe –install

Runs like a champ after that.