# Installing packages from github runs forever on Windows, is it possible to change the source to pkg.julialang?

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**Created:** [May 9, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-packages-from-github-runs-forever-on-windows-is-it-possible-to-change-the-source-to-pkg-julialang/60836 "2021-05-09T18:33:58Z")\
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I have been having a hard time intalling packages from my Windows 10 laptop. The install process is not really reliable. I have turned off the windows defender firewall and the installation still stuck.

I read somewhere you can change the install source to “pkg.juliaang…” instead of Github, but don’t know how. My Julia version is 1.6.1

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**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-packages-from-github-runs-forever-on-windows-is-it-possible-to-change-the-source-to-pkg-julialang/60836/2 "2021-05-10T17:48:10Z")

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Removing and adding back the General Registry should do the trick:

```julia
pkg> registry rm General
pkg> registry add General

```