@osheal33, your topic has been moved to a more suitable location on the forum. Installation and Troubleshooting is not for problems with your project
See About the IDE 1.x category.
Why? What do you expect from that?
I doubt very much that changing serial settings on the Arduino will have an effect on the refresh rate of the Nonin.
Print it where? If you print it to e.g. a LCD, it will stay there till you overwrite it.