# Installing Julia System Wide
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-system-wide/46390
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [September 10, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-system-wide/46390 "2020-09-10T15:30:32Z")
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### Author:  [@anon60034542](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon60034542)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-system-wide/46390/1 "2020-09-10T15:30:32Z")
I’m using Windows 10 on my desktop machine and I would like to install Julia system wide. When I follow the instructions to right click and run as administrator, it still wants to install it in my appdata folder (as if I didn’t select run as admin and wanted a single user install). Anyway to fix this?
Does the installer add Julia to the PATH variable? The way I have it setup right now, I have start Julia with a batch file (I’m aware I can edit the PATH variable add Julia).
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### Author:  [@magister-ludi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/magister-ludi)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-system-wide/46390/2 "2020-09-14T23:41:59Z")
You may have solved your problem by now, but I’ll try to answer your questions.
1. You can edit the path in the installer prompt to install the package wherever you want it to be.
2. The installer doesn’t modify the path. Dealing with that is the same as for any application you want to run. The installer adds shortcuts to the Windows menu, and optionally to the desktop, which will open Julia in a PowerShell window. If you want to run Julia from a console/terminal prompt, you can a) change the `PATH` variable, b) type the full path to `julia.exe` or c) use a batch file as you describe. Note that the batch file must also be in a directory that’s in `PATH`. I find it easiest to edit `PATH` each time I update the Julia version.
Does this help?
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-system-wide/46390/3 "2020-09-14T23:51:21Z")
This is, AFAICT, improved in Julia 1.6. See [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37077](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37077) and [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/37161](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/37161).