Adafruit ESP32-S3 Manual page 189

Arduino IDE Setup
The ESP32-S2/S3 bootloader does not have USB serial support for Windows 7 or
8. (See https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/5994) please update
to version 10 which is supported by espressif! Alternatively you can try this
community-crafted Windows 7 driver (https://github.com/kutukvpavel/Esp32-Win7-
VCP-drivers)
The first thing you will need to do is to download the latest release of the Arduino
IDE. You will need to be using version 1.8 or higher for this guide
The ESP32-S2/S3 Arduino board support package is currently part of the 2.0.0 or
later release. To use the ESP32-S2/S3 with Arduino, you'll need to follow the steps
below for your operating system. You can also
repository for the most up to date details on how to install
After you have downloaded and installed the latest version of Arduino IDE, you will
need to start the IDE and navigate to the Preferences menu. You can access it from
the File menu in Windows or Linux, or the Arduino menu on OS X.
A dialog will pop up just like the one shown below.
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