# Julia 0.5 can't load basic modules

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-5-cant-load-basic-modules/1332
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-5-cant-load-basic-modules/1332 "2017-01-06T17:26:15Z")
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### Author: ![sonicsmooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@sonicsmooth](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sonicsmooth)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-5-cant-load-basic-modules/1332/2 "2017-01-06T17:38:48Z")

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I’ve found the answer here:

> [@Windows: capitalization of the HOME environment variable](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-capitalization-of-the-home-environment-variable/200):
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> I have HOME defined in an environment variable. Starting with Julia v0.5.0, I could install packages, but I could not load them with using or import. It turns out, I had the capitalization wrong in my HOME environment variable. That hasn’t been a problem with other programs (including Julia v0.4.x) because Windows programs don’t normally care about file/path case. Once I fixed my capitalization, things worked fine. It might help someone else who was confused by this. The error message wasn’t ob…

I too had all lowercase in my `HOME` environment variable. Changing `c:\users\...` to `C:\Users\...` fixed it.  
Took me a day and a half, three reinstalls, and 4 forum posts to figure this out! 🙂

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