# Help for installation of org roam in windows

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/help-for-installation-of-org-roam-in-windows/192>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/help-for-installation-of-org-roam-in-windows/192 "2020-05-26T01:34:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/help-for-installation-of-org-roam-in-windows/192/11 "2020-06-26T15:28:39Z")

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Hope you can resolve your issue soon, but I’m not sure how much of help I can be.

I do not have the same issue as you do.  
One thing I could suggest is to isolate the Org-roam issue from others.

Comment out your `(add-hook)` where you load org-roam-mode.

```auto
;(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'org-roam-mode)

```

See how my Emacs starts up in this video clip below. The total length is about 38 seconds; 21 seconds or so are used to just start Emacs. I then manually call `org-roam-mode`, which finishes almost instantaneously (I have about 5 files for this).

> **[2020-06-26\_17-02-29.mp4 (video)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KOmQaSaPEcJaczIr_BAWshVamfEyhh3w/view?usp=sharing)**
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> Google Drive file.

My [.emacs](https://github.com/nobiot/Zero-to-Emacs-and-Org-roam/blob/master/.emacs-part2) for this video is located in my GitHub repo; I just commented out the part where org-roam is loaded at start up as above.

This config is used only for writing [Org-roam guide](https://github.com/nobiot/Zero-to-Emacs-and-Org-roam). For my usual one, I delay loading of Org-roam until I manually call it.

You might like to load up both desktop and org-roam (and others) at startup, but maybe some sort of selective loading is one way you might like to consider…

If the timeout issue still persists, then getting a backtrace would help the project look at the problem. I’ve written up [a quick guide here](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-emacs-problems-an-org-roam-edition/224) – see section 6. Call `M-x toggle-debug-on-error` manually before you call org-roam. You will get a backtrace if you hit the error.

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