Hello everyone,
I entered some kind of loop which I am not able to leave. I accidently deleted my arduino folder and now I can not uninstall arduino or install it so can someone share a zip file of his intalled arduino folder or maybe the uninstall file please ?
It is arduino 1.8.10, operating system windows 10, my installation was in C:/Program Files (x86)/arduino
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spycatcher2k:
Sorry, I can't help, because I'm a woman!But you need to provice more info, WHAT areduino folder, WHAT version, WHAT operating system.
lol
sorry I forgot to share the version and os so i added them in the OP
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Restore the deleted folder from your Recycle Bin and then uninstall Arduino.
Never do what you did (for any program).
Deleting an installed windows program folder without uninstalling invariably leads to pain, because you're generally left without the uninstaller which would let you properly uninstall the program. Windows keeps it's own record of what programs are "installed" and where their uninstallers are, I think buried in the registry somewhere (I don't know what the keys you need to delete to clear them out though).
I think there are third party tools for removing such orphaned programs? Though I am careful enough about uninstalling stuff that I haven't had to use such tools myself, so I don't know what they are.
As noted above, another option is working around it by using the non-installer version of the IDE (I use non-installer versions of the IDE exclusively and never use board manager to touch the official AVR board package, but that's largely because I maintain third party hardware packages, and hence need to have a bunch of versions installed in a clean state - I think I have like 10 versions of the IDE on my dev. computer. And no, I don't know how to fix the file associations so doubleclicking on a .ino file opens the correct copy of the arduino IDE - I'd love to know this 
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spycatcher2k:
Why not just download the non install version and copy it?
It won't work, i tried it
pert:
Restore the deleted folder from your Recycle Bin and then uninstall Arduino.
Unfortunately i'm a shift delete guy 
DrAzzy:
Never do what you did (for any program).Deleting an installed windows program folder without uninstalling invariably leads to pain, because you're generally left without the uninstaller which would let you properly uninstall the program. Windows keeps it's own record of what programs are "installed" and where their uninstallers are, I think buried in the registry somewhere (I don't know what the keys you need to delete to clear them out though).
I think there are third party tools for removing such orphaned programs? Though I am careful enough about uninstalling stuff that I haven't had to use such tools myself, so I don't know what they are.
As noted above, another option is working around it by using the non-installer version of the IDE (I use non-installer versions of the IDE exclusively and never use board manager to touch the official AVR board package, but that's largely because I maintain third party hardware packages, and hence need to have a bunch of versions installed in a clean state - I think I have like 10 versions of the IDE on my dev. computer. And no, I don't know how to fix the file associations so doubleclicking on a .ino file opens the correct copy of the arduino IDE - I'd love to know this
I never do this, but when i deleted the folder i though i had the non installed version, and usually installing the program again would help clean up but in case of arduino the installer doesn't let you install again unless you uninstall first
As spycatcher2k recommended earlier, just use the "Windows ZIP file for non admin install" download from the downloads page. That doesn't require installation or uninstallation.
firashelou:
did not work out, please share the uninstall folder. I tried to show the hidden files and arduino15 did not show in roaming folder
It's in Local, not Roaming, except for a few versions of the IDE in the 1.6.x and 1.5.x version range, and maybe for CREATE.
DrAzzy:
It's in Local, not Roaming, except for a few versions of the IDE in the 1.6.x and 1.5.x version range, and maybe for CREATE.
I did not understand what is CREATE ?
CREATE == Arduino Create (AKA Arduino Web Editor)
pert:
CREATE == Arduino Create (AKA Arduino Web Editor)
Thank you pert, karma++