

My OS thinks I currently have 1.5.56 installed, (it shows up in my Apps & Features screen) and I thought I did too, but it’s unexpectedly missing from my Start menu, and I can’t find it anywhere on my HD. Windows 10 Home, Version 2004, installed (updated) 6 July 2020. So far none of the suggestions are working, and the installer hangs at around 33%-ish. Hope my above experience in resolving similar issue as yours helped. “CCleaner” used to be my ‘must-have’ program in Windows but I no longer install or use it unless I absolute need to. Health Check feature) built into “CCleaner”. Note: I am not promoting CCleaner as I disliked Piriform’s current marketing ploy (i.e. In this instance, “CCleaner” worked for me.

I then run the “balenaEtcher-Setup-1.5.95” again and this time it worked/installed without any issues. I then clicked “Delete” to remove balenaEtcher from the list of installed progrm.

The “uninstall” feature couldn’t work too as it couldn’t find the program. I then installed CCleaner and it listed balenaEtcher in list of programs I have in my system. registry, etc.), so I went into Windows Start-Settings-Apps-Apps & features to remove/reinstall but balenaEtcher wasn’t listed therein. I suspected balenaEtcher setup version wouldn’t reinstall proper because of previous installation traces still in Windows system (i.e. The portable version 1.5.95 works fine though. I had then downloaded setup file for 1.5.95 and the installer would just stop/freeze as in the screenshot provided by I thought that the 1.5.95 is buggy and tried reinstalling version 1.5.93. However, I accidentally wiped my Windows 10 “C:\Users\AppData\Local” folder in safe mode recently, and my balenaEtcher no longer works. I had installed the setup version of 1.5.93 without problems. Just to share my experience on this topic.
