I've had a problem for years where every time I install a new version of Python into a new directory using the .exe installer from python.org, the installer deletes all the main Python files, such as ...

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Hi there, thanks for reporting the issues. Unfortunately, we've seen similar issues with VS installer in the past and it's due to how the python windows installer works. So the workaround is not to ...

In this case, the Python 3.14 instance shown in green (at the top of the screen) is managed by the Python Installation Manager; the others were added by hand earlier.