# Looking for feedback from users that currently can't install Juliaup from the Windows Store

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** juliaup\
**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507 "2022-08-08T22:43:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507/22 "2023-01-14T15:16:12Z")

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> [@tsela](#):
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> Installed didn’t necessarily mean usable. Restrictions to the Windows Store cascade to Winget itself. If Juliaup can’t be installed from one, it won’t be installable from the other.

False in my case.

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**Author:** ![tsela](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tsela/32/52174_2.png) [@tsela](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tsela)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507/23 "2023-01-14T15:24:54Z")

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Ah, okay. I just know it’s true in mine. I guess it depends on your corporate settings…

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**Author:** ![BambOoxX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bambooxx/32/22179_2.png) [@BambOoxX](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BambOoxX)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507/24 "2023-01-16T09:21:15Z")

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> [@davidanthoff](#):
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> But I think `winget` is actually installed on all Windows 10 and 11 versions now.

I think the security at my compagny is quite tight and `winget` is not available…

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**Author:** ![krynju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecccb3/32.png) [@krynju](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/krynju)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507/25 "2023-11-17T19:47:35Z")

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EDIT: DO NOT USE the instructions from this reply.  
If you hit the same issue the location of the `julia.exe` and `juliaup.exe` is supposed to be in `C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps`, so add this to your PATH if it isn’t there and everything should work afterwards (by work I mean you can use the julia/juliaup command from the terminal)

I was just trying to install it on windows and everything went fine, but juliaup and julia were not added to PATH  
~~I tried to figure out where they are and found them in a folder with no access to it, so had to follow [this guide](https://www.minitool.com/news/where-are-windows-store-apps-installed-windows-11-10.html) with the exception that I set my user as the owner of the directory to even look inside~~

~~Added these two path entries and it works now, but I think this was supposed to be easier than this, so I’m documenting my steps here~~

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/5/25c449dd4aace718397f9534d267557fff23a481.png)

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507/26 "2023-11-18T01:07:05Z")

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@krynju I would not add those folders to the `PATH`, that is not how Windows Store installed software works and I think you’ll run into lots of downstream problems with that.

Can you check whether the folder `~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps` has one `julia.exe` and one `juliaup.exe` file in it, each should be a zero-size file. And can you also check whether this folder is on your `PATH`? That is how it is supposed to be.

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**Author:** ![krynju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecccb3/32.png) [@krynju](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/krynju)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507/27 "2023-11-18T08:14:36Z")

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I found the files in that path and it to PATH and now it works! Thanks!

For anyone looking for these files in that path - it doesn’t show up in explorer, you need to explicitly cd into that path to open explorer in `~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps`

As for the root cause I can 100% confirm the WindowsApps path wasn’t in my PATH before or wasn’t added during install. This is a pretty old install of Windows 10 Pro if that gives any clues

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-feedback-from-users-that-currently-cant-install-juliaup-from-the-windows-store/85507/28 "2023-11-18T20:11:08Z")

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So in general `~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps` should be always on the `PATH`, i.e. that is a standard Windows thing. My best guess is that some other program in the past might have removed it or something like that.

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