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From the screenshot you shared, I can see there is something special about the C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino folder because it has a different icon from the other folders with that arrow overlayed on it. Do you know what that is?
The folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino" is a mount point where I have mounted a disk partition so that Arduino has a disk area all of its own, and its files doesn't get physically interlaced with the files of other applications. I do this for all the larger applications/games I have installed. I have never gotten the "EvalSymlinks: too many links" message from any of them.