IntelliJ IDEA won’t uninstall

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IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2021.3.2
Windows 10

I tried uninstalling IntelliJ from the control panel but was not able to do so and there was this popup which said –

Uninstall hasn't detected folder of IntelliJ Installation. Probably Uninstall.exe was moved from the installation folder.

I updated the IDE, tried restarting it, and even tried restarting my system.

The problem persists and I get the same popup.

I referred to this thread and was able to solve my problem in this way –

This happened because IdeaWin64.dll file was missing from the bin folder where IntelliJ was installed.

The installation by default takes place in – C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2021.3.2

The solution is to create the required file in the bin folder and then proceed to uninstall from the control panel.

Follow these steps –

  1. Open command prompt in administrator mode.
  2. Navigate to your bin folder inside the installation folder, for me the path looked like this – cd 'C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2021.3.2\bin'
  3. Create the dll file – cd .>IdeaWin64.dll
  4. Close the control panel, go to your control panel and now uninstall IntelliJ IDEA.

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