I have researched it a bit and from what I can tell for a self-install the regular Homebridge with the standard UI is the way to go now. I could not find any reason for switching to HOOBS once I had Homebridge already setup and working.
Here is the instructions if you want to try and set it up on windows. It is pretty easy.
Once that's going you just need the Homebridge and HE integration plugins. I would recommend this one from tonesto7.
If you want your windows machine to auto-login when you boot, official tool from Microsoft
