# Wipe and re-install NodeRed on windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wipe-and-re-install-nodered-on-windows/2016>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [2 August 2018 20:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wipe-and-re-install-nodered-on-windows/2016 "2018-08-02T20:28:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [2 August 2018 20:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wipe-and-re-install-nodered-on-windows/2016/1 "2018-08-02T20:28:37Z")

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I seem to be having issues updating a node (Blocky) on my Win10 machine so I'd like to nuke it from orbit and start again

What to I need to do to remove it?

Simply delete c:\users\Simon.node-red folder ? (having made copies of my existing flows 1st of course)

Simon

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [2 August 2018 23:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wipe-and-re-install-nodered-on-windows/2016/2 "2018-08-02T23:08:51Z")

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Slightly less drastic (to start with). Check if you have a package.json in your .node-red dir. if so then edit it manually to remove blocky. Then delete the node\_modules directory. Then run npm i to reinstall any other modules. And then restart Node-RED.

If that fails then yes. Go for the big delete.

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [3 August 2018 11:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wipe-and-re-install-nodered-on-windows/2016/3 "2018-08-03T11:54:10Z")

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npm i and big delete made no diff  
Turns out to be some sort of wierd browser issue

I normally use Vivaldi to edit my flows and its showing up old version of the Blockly node

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/5/51b702fc17699af940debae5353b11542c057186.png)

But when I tried viewing it in Chrome - it shows the latest version

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/3/36bd8203c3652512bbd62f8f1a61a22b6c28e005.png)

Very weird

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [3 August 2018 12:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wipe-and-re-install-nodered-on-windows/2016/4 "2018-08-03T12:10:31Z")

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I just went into Vivaldi settings and completely cleared all history/cache - did a shift-F5 just for luck and now its fine in Vivaldi as well