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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:
     sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
     sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
 
-Windows users can [download a .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in their home directory or any other location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29).
+Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in any location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29) except for `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32` (e.g. **do not** put in `C:\Windows\System32`).
 
 OS X users can install **youtube-dl** with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/).
 
@@ -85,9 +85,11 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
     --no-color                       Do not emit color codes in output
 
 ## Network Options:
-    --proxy URL                      Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in
-                                     an empty string (--proxy "") for direct
-                                     connection
+    --proxy URL                      Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
+                                     To enable experimental SOCKS proxy, specify
+                                     a proper scheme. For example
+                                     socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty
+                                     string (--proxy "") for direct connection
     --socket-timeout SECONDS         Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
     --source-address IP              Client-side IP address to bind to
                                      (experimental)
@@ -415,7 +417,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
 
 # CONFIGURATION
 
-You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`.
+You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`.
 
 For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory:
 ```
@@ -431,7 +433,7 @@ You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for
 
 ### Authentication with `.netrc` file
 
-You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a`.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only:
+You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only:
 ```
 touch $HOME/.netrc
 chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
@@ -691,6 +693,10 @@ hash -r
 
 Again, from then on you'll be able to update with `sudo youtube-dl -U`.
 
+### youtube-dl is extremely slow to start on Windows
+
+Add a file exclusion for `youtube-dl.exe` in Windows Defender settings.
+
 ### I'm getting an error `Unable to extract OpenGraph title` on YouTube playlists
 
 YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so you'll need at least youtube-dl 2014.07.25 to download all YouTube videos.