Update README.md with windows installation example

README.md

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 Note: Some parts of this package, including the `ThermoFisherVerios` class which helps implement this method on a Thermo Fisher scanning electron microscope depend on the proprietary package `autoscript_sdb_microscope_client`.
 
+## Example Installation using venv on Windows
+
+1. Create virtual environment using venv with python 3.10
+```
+<Path to python 3.10 executable e.g. C:\Users\Support\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe> -m venv <venv name e.g. venv_310>
+```
+2. Activate environment
+```
+<venv name e.g. venv_310>\Scripts\activate
+```
+3. Upgrade pip
+```
+python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+```
+4. Go to code directory
+```
+cd <path to SmartEM>
+```
+5. Install code in editable mode
+```
+python -m pip install -e .
+```
+6. Check that smartem was installed (optional)
+```
+pip list
+```
+7. Run example script
+```
+python examples\smart_em_script.py
+```
+Note: we use `python -m` in order to call `pip` through our environment's interpreter. If you omit this, you might be running a different version of `pip` that exists outside your environment.
 # Status
 
-- examples/smart_em_script.py: SmartEM script for running the SmartEM pipeline
+- examples/smart_em_script.py: SmartEM script for running the SmartEM pipeline