# Adding Julia to PATH on Windows

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**Created:** [February 20, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/adding-julia-to-path-on-windows/55673 "2021-02-20T12:14:02Z")\
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No need to add Julia to PATH in order to access it in VS code or Jupyter.

> If you installed Julia into a standard location on Mac or Windows, or if the Julia binary is on your `PATH` , the Julia VS Code extension automatically finds your Julia installation.  
> [Getting Started · Julia in VS Code](https://www.julia-vscode.org/docs/dev/gettingstarted/#Configuring-the-Julia-extension-1)

But if you want to use Julia in the command line on Windows 10 (e.g., for convenient tests and documentation), you may refer to the following link

> [@Windows terminal announcement](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-terminal-announcement/23929/4):
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> For those who may be interested in integrating Julia with Windows terminal. After Windows terminal is launched, go to setting (Unlike mine, you should only have a Windows PowerShell entry by default grin) [image] A JSON configuration file will be opened with some editor (for me, it is VS Code). In the “list” items, we see the default entry for Windows Powershell. Next, we will add an entry for Julia. Copy the entry of Windows Powershell and paste it below (still inside “lis…

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