Tomcat Installation in windows and unix

Tomcat Installation ways for running on different platforms :

Tomcat Installation in windows :
1)Installing Tomcat on Windows using the Windows installer.
It's a Wizard base interface and functionality is similar to other wizard based installers.
. Installation as a service: Tomcat will be installed as a Windows service Using the checkbox on the component page sets the service as "auto" startup.

Tray icon: When Tomcat is run as a service, there will not be any tray icon present when Tomcat is running. the tray icon will be used even if Tomcat was installed as a service.
2)Installing Tomcat in windows exatracing the zip file : you can download the tomcat zip file from the apache tomcat mirror and Extract the tomact zip file .
Tomcat Installation on unix :

you can download the tomcat source tarball (apache-tomcat-7.0.50.tar.gz) from the apache tomcat mirror and Extract the tomact zip file as below .
gunzip apache-tomcat-7.0.50.tar.gz
tar -xvf apache-tomcat-7.0.50.tar