# Why is the update of the registries so slow?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-the-update-of-the-registries-so-slow/28659>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-the-update-of-the-registries-so-slow/28659 "2019-09-11T18:24:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-the-update-of-the-registries-so-slow/28659/24 "2020-04-30T16:26:11Z")

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> [@Why is the update of the registries so slow?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-the-update-of-the-registries-so-slow/28659/13):
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> Turning off antivirus software (not necessarily advisable), resulted in a speedup of around 3 (16 seconds compared to 46 seconds originally). I suspect there is an additional speedup that might be gained by turning off indexing (the Windows indexer is running towards the end of the instantiation).

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