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Hi! Yes, the naming is a bit confusing - especially when you've now got the Web IDE at https://www.espruino.com/ide/ as well.
Did you run the Zadig tool on your window 7 PC and change the BLE driver? more details are in the getting started instructions.
Basically:
Windows 10 handles everything in the OS, and everything works fine once paired with the OS.
Windows 7 doesn't have an OS-defined way of accessing Bluetooth LE, so the Web IDE has to connect directly to the adaptor (which means you need to run the Zadig tool to swap drivers). As a result you shouldn't be pairing with the OS at all. In fact, if everything is working then the OS shouldn't be able to find any BLE devices as the (native) Web IDE will have completely taken control of it.
The
Web Bluetoothoption won't currently work on any windows PC, and I'll see if I can do something to disable it.What's likely happening is that your Windows 7 PC hasn't had the driver swapped over with Zadig, it's not finding any BLE adaptor it can use, and it's defaulting to whatever it has, which is the Web Bluetooth option which doesn't work on Windows at the moment.
If you're still having problems after doing the Zadig thing, or if you've already done it, please can you go into
Consolein the settings page of the native Web IDE, and copy/paste what it says (from start to end) into here? It'd help to track down the problem a lot more.