# Very slow "Updating registry at 'C:\\Users\\me\\.julia\\registries\\General'"

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, pkg\
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/very-slow-updating-registry-at-c-users-me-julia-registries-general/51614 "2020-12-10T15:18:50Z")\
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Depending on what is required, WSL is probably a good solution. I did try it and the improvements in speed were very good.

However I also run a Linux installation in VirtualBox, and it turns out that VirtualBox and WSL can’t be installed at the same time. I had to choose between the two, so I chose VirtualBox.

Both Linux’y systems were much faster than Windows (all running on the same hardware, of course). Without any real knowledge on my part, my guess is that a lot of this is because the Windows file system is really slow.

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