# I have a ThinkPad running Windows 10 that seems stuck on Updating Registry when I

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**Created:** [January 30, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-have-a-thinkpad-running-windows-10-that-seems-stuck-on-updating-registry-when-i/54285 "2021-01-30T16:02:23Z")\
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I have a ThinkPad running Windows 10 that seems stuck on Updating Registry when I tried to add a package. In fact, after half an hour, it was still stuck. What could I do to make it go past updating registry?

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Try setting this environment variable to empty. There’s other discussion around this on discourse as well:

`ENV["JULIA_PKG_SERVER"] = ""`