Hello, I used emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32). I went to Options -> Manage Emacs Packages. Then it tries to connect to each host I specified in my .emacs. And here are the logs : Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80 Contacting host: tromey.com:80 Contacting host: marmalade-repo.org:80 Opening TLS connection to `marmalade-repo.org'... Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443 marmalade-repo.org '...failed Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443 marmalade-repo.org --protocols ssl3'...failed Opening TLS connection with `openssl s_client -connect marmalade-repo.org:443 -no_ssl2 -ign_eof'...failed Opening TLS connection to `marmalade-repo.org'...failed error in process filter: url-http: Could not create connection to marmalade-repo.org:443 error in process filter: Could not create connection to marmalade-repo.org:443 Failed to download `marmalade' archive. When I get the first error, emacs freeze. Meanwhile, there seems to be a heavy load on the CPU and the RAM for emacs rise to 858 Mo. If I tried again, it freezes again, the CPU is busy but the amount of RAM does not change. I changed a little thing in the .emacs : (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . " http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . " http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")). It still freezes but no big load on the CPU nor any peak of RAM. I'll try to connect to marmalade later to see if it's related to a fault on my side or on the host side. But even if marmalde can't be contacted, it should not bug like this. Regards, Clément MIKLARZ