IDE 2.2.1 no longer starts in Windows 11

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Dear custumors,

I had already made a lot of progress with my sketch when the Arduino IDE 2.2.1 suddenly stopped booting.

This year I bought a new laptop with Windows 11 where the compiler Arduino-IDE 2.2.1 worked fine on it. And suddenly I only got a white screen with a sort flashing logo in it, that's it.
I have removed and downloaded the software several times from the Arduino.cc website and installed it too (also as administrator) but that did not help.

If I start the PowerShell in c:\user\username\Appdata\Local\Programs\Arduino IDE and after the prompt I give the command: & “.\Arduino IDE” then the program seems to get stuck in a loop and then I get thousands read lines.
In addition to the 2.2.1 version, I also installed an older version 1.8.18 and it works fine.

Who can help me get version 2.2.1 working again?

Kind regards,
tokotommy.

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I use Win11 and IDE2.2.1 and the IDE running on a slow processor without a lot of memory. Yesterday booting the IDE was a struggle. I noticed libraries were being downloaded or updated, so I let the IDE finish its thing (after taskman/endtask a few times). Today the IDE works.

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My only suggestion is to remove the IDE and search for all the bits and pieces of the IDE that don't get removed. I've used windows enough to know where to look. However I think short of that an uninstaller (Wise free version) would be the best approach.

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That sounds good, but it doesn't work for me

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Hi JohnRob,

I have uninstalled the IDE several times and also search for all bits an pieces of the IDE but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
I have an i7 processor, so that can't be the problem.

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I don't know your level of Win11ness so if I am insulting you I don't mean to:

Did you check
C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming
and
C:\Users\john\AppData\Local

I'm john so you will have to replace "john" with your user name.

Also delete:
C:\Program Files\Arduino IDE

I also delete anything that has "arduino" from the registry but you may not feel comfortable doing this.

Are any other programs showing similar symptoms?

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Hi @tokotommy.

Please copy and paste a sample of those lines in a forum reply here.

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Hi everyone,

I've solved the problem. The Arduino IDE compiler 2.2.1 works again :blush:

@JohnRob: I had deleted all the folders that Arduino left behind every time I tried to reinstall the IDE2.2.1.
Thanks to your tip about the registry, I found several keys to Arduino that no longer worked.
After removing this, the installation went smoothly.

The Arduino IDE compiler starts up properly and quickly again.
I also had to reinstall the USB driver. I have not yet been able to test this driver, but I do not expect this to cause any problems.

I would like to thank everyone for all the ideas. Thank you all :+1:

Kind regards,
tokotommy :wave:

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