diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8a782d4e2..e41ea20c5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -163,6 +163,17 @@ On Windows, you will need to open PowerShell and activate your virtual environme
 comfyui
 ```
 
+**Advanced: Using `uv`**:
+
+`uv` is a significantly faster and improved Python package manager. On Windows, use the following commands to install the package from scratch about 6x faster than vanilla `pip`:
+
+```powershell
+uv venv --seed
+& .\venv\Scripts\activate.ps1
+uv pip install git+https://github.com/hiddenswitch/ComfyUI.git
+python -m comfy.cmd.main
+```
+
 ### LTS Custom Nodes
 
 These packages have been adapted to be installable with `pip` and download models to the correct places:
diff --git a/comfy/component_model/files.py b/comfy/component_model/files.py
index 636ecfee2..4172c5ca3 100644
--- a/comfy/component_model/files.py
+++ b/comfy/component_model/files.py
@@ -49,4 +49,6 @@ def get_package_as_path(package: str, subdir: Optional[str] = None) -> str:
     traversable = resources.files(package)
     if subdir is not None:
         traversable = traversable / subdir
-    return os.path.commonpath(list(map(str, traversable.iterdir())))
+    if traversable.is_dir():
+        return str(traversable)
+    raise ValueError(f"Could not find path for package={package}, subdir={subdir}, traversable={str(traversable)}")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a4d0d9d86..435bb0571 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ importlib_resources
 Pillow
 scipy
 tqdm
-protobuf
+protobuf>=3.20.0,<5.0.0
 psutil
 ConfigArgParse
 aio-pika
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0da0c8428..f87f77533 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -188,14 +188,8 @@ def dependencies(for_pypi=False, force_nightly: bool = False) -> List[str]:
 
 
 package_data = [
-    'sd1_tokenizer/*',
-    't5_tokenizer/*',
-    '**/*.json',
-    '**/*.yaml',
-    '**/*.model'
+    '**/*'
 ]
-if not is_editable:
-    package_data.append('comfy/web/**/*')
 dev_dependencies = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements-dev.txt")).readlines()
 setup(
     name=package_name,