There it is! Click on the File menu and click Exit. You won’t see your mouse cursor until you move it all the way to the top of the screen into the This drops down a menu bar at the top of your screen. You WILL get a “Please create a config file.” message When that’s done, we continue, still in the ~/MagicMirror directory. You may see npm WARN for a few items but these are NOT errors and don’t affect anything. It will take some time to complete depending on your PC. This will install the dependencies for MagicMirror. Type npm install and press the Enter key. Now you’re in the ~/MagicMirror directory. Type cd MagicMirror and press the Enter key. Remember we installed Git? Click Start/All Programs/Git/Git Bash. Open and new terminal and type git clone and one space, then paste the url you just copied.Click on the green Code button on the right and copy the url ( ).Go to to get the MagicMirror software.Other than that, this walkthrough assumes the defaults for Git installation. The default allows you to use Git commands from the Windows Command Windows then choose that in the Components section of the installer. Again, you can use the defaults but if you want to use TrueType fonts in your terminal You may have noticed that npm was also installed.

The default installation is what you want. Node-v6.11.0-x86.msi file because I’m running 32-bit Windows 7. Go to and download the Windows Installer. Even this old laptop makes a decent MM dev machine. Worthless really, but it runs Magic Mirror like a champ, as it is far more robust than a Pi of any kind. I just finished a fresh install of Windows 7 on a Compaq Presario CQ57 laptop with 3.5GB of RAM and 32-bit OS. Install MagicMirror on a PC Windows 7/10 - Complete walkthrough

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