[Windows] Installing issue with Anki: connection timed out

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Hello Team,

I downloaded mentioned anki-launcher-25.09-windows version on my laptop and Anki icon available now on my laptop screen. When I double click on it after that I’m getting an error.

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  1. Latest Anki (press Enter)

  2. Choose a version

  3. Allow betas: off

  4. Cache downloads: on

  5. Download mirror: off

  6. Uninstall

And When I select 1 and pressed entered I got below error.

Checking for updates…
Unable to check for Anki versions. Please check your internet connection.

Error: Failed to run (2): C:\Users\shubham-si\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki\uv.exe run --no-project --no-config --managed-python --with pip-system-certs,requests[socks] --python 3.13.5 C:\Users\shubham-si\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki\versions.py: error: Failed to fetch: https://pypi.org/simple/requests/
Caused by: Request failed after 3 retries
Caused by: error sending request for url
Caused by: operation timed out

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