so, I tried to uninstall the Arduino IDE because I did it wrong. Anytime I try to uninstall it starts the process, but immediately the first error message appears, saying the Arduino IDE would still be running and need´s to be closed, but there isn´t anythin running. I checked the running tasks, the services and processes (everythin in taskmanger) and there´s nothing i could connect with the Arduino IDE.
After clicking OK the uninstaller tries to close the Arduino IDE but doesn´t succeed, giving me the option to retry or to cancel. Retrys don´t work.
Anyone any idea what´s wrong? I couldn´t find something similiar. Im using a Win10 system version 21H2.
I did, serveral times. Should have mentioned that.
I searched for any still running arduino process, restartet the computer a few times and tried it with another account( with admin privileges). Everything without any results
Try a clean boot.
Google it, and take notes of what is disabled.
After the clean boot, uninstall the IDE.
Then reenabble the disabled services and restart.
Then you're ready to reinstall.
Hi @BigMac. The developers are tracking reports of a similar problem when uninstalling the previous version during an update here:
Unfortunately, the cause of that has not yet been determined. If you have a GitHub account, you can subscribe to that issue to get notifications about any new developments related to the subject.
This might be relevant. Please provide a detailed description of exactly what you mean by "did it wrong".
The "wrong" part was that i opened the installer with another windows account, one with admin privileges, and installed it with only for the admin account, not every user on the pc. To change that i wanted the new installation, but the the problem occured. I will explain it on github, too.
Good morning from here.
I didn´t try it that way, until now. I needed to grant my useraccount the privileges to access the user´s folder where the IDE was installed. Unfortunately, this didn´t help either.
But thank you for your suggestion.
Sadly I wasn´t able to uninstall. I reported to the Github problem and waiting for a solution over there.
I´m on a coorporate computer and not a member of our IT department, so i couldn´t try out the clean reboot option. Maybe i can replicate the problem at home, there I could try it. I´ll let you know. Thanks so far.
I am totally confused by GitHub... I dont have it installed, and dont want it.
I do not know what is meant by "a nightly build" ?
I downloaded the arduino-ide_2.0.1_Windows_64bit.exe and it has the same problem as this topic. ie will not uninstall.
There is no solution in this topic, else I can not see it.
But the nightly build is only recommended for advanced users who want to do beta testing, or for normal users in specific cases where they are impacted by a bug present in the latest release, but fixed in the nightly build.
In this specific case, the nightly build is identical to the newly released Arduino IDE 2.0.1, so you don't need to worry about the nightly build at all.
I couldn't unistall the IDE. But deleted it from it's file location. You can search the IDE's file location in your PC, and can delete it. It worked in my case.
