thank the gods

great idea
ty r4

its gotta be a duplicate or partial file left somewhere, i might be able to walk you thru it via phone , i have windows 10 and we could go click by click to try and figure this out, i sent a private message

so it started the install or restarted your computer?

I am so confused, when i click download it reads file name Minecraftinstaller.msi and save as type windows installer package. I have no idea why its downloading different for you with 2 folders

select launcher

hopefully you have one that says this Minecraftinstaller.msi , what do the folders say you have?

verify where its downloading it to after the download go back to that folder and click on it not the shortcut on the desktop, that might be a remnant of the old copy

@ExoticButterz_ yes I purchased from Mojang

i ask because there were some purchased from microsoft and a gaming site that act different,. but a direct mojang one is the best, great, did you do the step by step, what did you get when you tried to download? did the window open showing destination??

ok lets go step by step.
go to here
click login, you do have a login and you did purchase your copy from mojang correct?
click download on upper left corner of page
click show all options
click downloads for windows
did a download window open saying it windows installer and list the file name Minecraftinstaller.msi as the file destination?