.. _FAQwindows: FAQ: Microsoft Windows ====================== The following Frequency Answer Questions are specific for the Microsoft Windows operating system. #. I'm having trouble running ``pytest`` on Windows from within the ``src`` directory. It is recommended to run the ``pytest-xdist`` version which allows multi-threaded executions using ``pytest -n 8`` for 8 threads, for example. See :ref:`installOptionalPackages` for more information on installing ``pytest-xdist``.