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Updating GRBL, or any other Arduino Library in Windows

So GRBL that ships with Arduino is version 0.9. I needed version 1.1, Here’s a simple plan to update it.

Removing the old library

  1. Exit the Arduino IDE
  2. Goto C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\libraries on windows
  3. delete the folder for GRBL if you see it there..
  4. if it’s not there, it’s in your user folder at C:\Users\[your user name]\Documents\Arduino\libraries
  5. delete the folder for GRBL there.

Adding the new library

  1. Exit the Arduino IDE
  2. Goto C:\Users\[your user name]\Documents\Arduino\libraries
  3. copy the grbl folder into there.
  4. Restart your Arduino IDE
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Windows 7

So I pulled out one of the old company laptops to use for some random thing, and installed a copy of windows 7 on it, as that’s how old it is.

We moved to Windows 10 long ago here,  and actively purged Windows 7.

I forgot how awesome it was… no waiting, no candy crush, no “I can remind you to buy lunch meat”, no you need to run this critical update that does nothing right now while you are trying to get stuff done.

it just starts and works..

so refreshing..

Well that did not last long.

No it’s not important.. don’t “excuse me”.. I don’t want to update. I just want to use windows 7.