# Plots not working on Windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-not-working-on-windows/88322>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [October 6, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-not-working-on-windows/88322 "2022-10-06T00:58:06Z")\
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On your screenshots, your artifacts folder is empty, this explain the error loading the `dll`s.  
Delete it, and then run `pkg> instantiate`: it should download the artifacts and you should see `bin` and / or `lib` with `dll`s in it.

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