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What is the best way to remove 100% of a software that is not yet installed?
No extra hardware required:
The "probably good enough" approach would be to make a System Restore point before installing the software and rollback to it later. Some configuration and ...
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What is the best way to remove 100% of a software that is not yet installed?
There's several solutions to this, both social and technical.
Technical Solutions
It's usually technically impossible to remove windows software after it's been run or installed. You can remove the ...
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Remove entry from Windows 10 Apps & Features
I'm adding this answer because, judging from some of the comments, it is not clear to all that Windows 10 offers two separate interfaces for uninstalling programs, and that editing the registry is ...
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Remove entry from Windows 10 Apps & Features
The location has changed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall for Windows 10
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Completely reinstall WSL
Update: This is a bit of an outdated answer at this point. If you are running an older version of WSL that was installed prior to Windows 10 or 11 22H2, then this may be the correct answer on how to ...
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How to COMPLETELY uninstall Visual Studio Code from Windows 10?
Here are the default paths where Visual Studio Code Insider saves files:
Installation path:
"%LocalAppData%\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders"
User settings and preferences:
"%UserProfile%\....
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can't uninstall Python 3.6 on windows 10
Solution:
UNHIDE ALL FOLDERS BEFORE FOLLOWING DOWN...
Go to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Programs
Delete Python Folder
Go to Control Panel >> Uninstall a Program
Right Click on Python and ...
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Completely reinstall WSL
This answer refers to the newer Store/UWP version of WSL. To confirm that you are using this newer version, run the following from PowerShell:
Get-AppxPackage |? { $_.Name -like "*...
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How to uninstall/remove Package Control from Sublime Text 3?
Press Ctrl+Shift+P (or Shift+⌘+P on a Mac)
type 'Remove'
All the packages that can be removed will be shown in the list below.
Select one and this is it.
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How to completely remove Visual Studio from mac?
In case anyone else having the same question visited here, please visit the official guide.
The following is quoted from the original guide which was updated at 2017-4-14.
Uninstall Visual Studio ...
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Cannot delete Steam, path leads to wrong disk
Can you make a symbolic link from missing Steam directory to the actual one at D:.
mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam" "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
The method avoids downloading other ...
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How to COMPLETELY uninstall Visual Studio Code from Windows 10?
After uninstalling vscode, remove:
%UserProfile%\.vscode
%AppData%\Code
%LocalAppData%\Programs\Microsoft VS Code
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What is the best way to remove 100% of a software that is not yet installed?
This might not be the best option but it was not mentioned yet so consider this more a 'nice to know'.
Windows has support for FBWF (file based write filter) or its successor UWF (unified write filter)...
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Remove entry from Windows 10 Apps & Features
Another place for uninstall keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
Software installed for a single user is here. Log in either as the specific user, or if not ...
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What is the best way to remove 100% of a software that is not yet installed?
Once you have given an invasive piece of software complete access to your machine then it is difficult to ever fully excise it. You might be able to uninstall it and that may even completely get rid ...
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How can I completely remove rEFInd from my Mac?
diskutil list | grep EFI | awk '{print $6}'
This will only output the lines of containing the string "efi" and of that line, only the 6th column, so the output is likely:
disk0s1
Now to remove ...
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Remove entry from Windows 10 Apps & Features
You can also try the old-school Control Panel; that helped me. Click "Start", type "Control Panel", and press Enter to bring up the old Control Panel app. Go to Programs > ...
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Cannot uninstall application in Windows 10
Grrr Seems that the problem is that the ppl at M$ who write the new UI don't use the same backend code as the old UI.
I was using the Apps & Features widget in the new Windows 10 UI to uninstall ...
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How to uninstall/remove "Snipping Tool" from start menu
Remove the shortcut from %programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories (You can find this folder from the Start Menu. See image at end.)
Wait for the Start Menu index to update ...
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Uninstall individual Office 2016 programs
Seems you installed Office in Click-to-Run way, unfortunately it's not possible to select what you want to install by default
But you can try changing installation config to achieve this
As the ...
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How to completely remove Visual Studio from mac?
May be this would be better solution (no need to follow each step): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs/master/mac/resources/uninstall-vsmac.sh :
#!/bin/sh
# Uninstall ...
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How to completely remove Calibre under Linux?
You can try this:
sudo calibre-uninstall
It works for me.
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Removing the avahi-daemon on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get purge avahi-daemon
To merely disable:
sudo systemctl stop avahi-daemon
sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon
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Stopping Microsoft Search from eating my hard drive
On Windows 10, there is now a menu explicitly for this.
Open Indexing Options
Click Modify
On this new window, you can click on the items in the bottom panel and uncheck their subfolders in the top ...
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How to uninstall/remove Package Control from Sublime Text 3?
Sublime Text 3
Run Sublime Text.
Select Preferences → Package Control.
Or
Use ctrl+shift+p shortcut for (Win, Linux) or cmd+shift+p for (OS X).
Select Remove Package. Package Control: Remove ...
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How to uninstall Microsoft Edge WebView2
I figured out how to uninstall microsoft edge webview2 by following the instructions found on windowsreport website:
https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-edge-webview2-runtime/
Click on the magnifying ...
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How to uninstall Windows Mail?
The OP's question was how to remove WinMail from a computer. The other suggestions will disable or only rename the file. If you want WinMail permanently gone from your system, this simple BAT file ...
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There are two different "apps" called "Add or remove programs" in Windows 10. Why? Which should I use, what are their differences?
The desktop control panel one only allows you to remove desktop applications, while the setting version also allows you to uninstall the new store apps.
And Microsoft wants to remove the desktop ...
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How do I uninstall a Chocolatey package that won't go away?
I used --force and it went away.
choco uninstall cyg-get --force
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can't uninstall Python 3.6 on windows 10
It's also possible to execute the python3 installer again, you get option to repair or uninstall. Just choose uninstall, it will be done properly.
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