How to uninstall a program in Windows 10 – 9 ways

Uninstalling programs in Windows 10 is the process of uninstalling software that almost all users of the operating system face on their computers. Most users have to remove unnecessary third-party programs or pre-installed Windows 10 apps from their PC.

The reasons for uninstalling programs can be very different: for example, the application was installed on the computer initially, but it is not used, due to lack of space on the system disk, due to excessive consumption of PC resources, due to poor performance, etc. Therefore, the user needs to remove unnecessary software from his computer.

Content:

1. How to uninstall a program from a Windows 10 computer from the Settings app – 1 way
2. How to remove unnecessary Windows 10 programs from the “Apps and features” section – method 2
3. How to uninstall a program from the start menu in windows 10 – 3 way
4. Uninstalling a program using the “Control Panel” – 4 way
5. Deleting an application from the program folder – 5 way
6. Uninstalling a program on the command line – 6 way
7. We remove programs through Windows PowerShell – method 7
8. How to remove unnecessary programs in Windows 10 in CCleaner – method 8
9. Uninstalling the program using the uninstaller
10. Article Conclusions

Some of the built-in Windows 10 applications and programs from the Microsoft Store (Microsoft Store) are removed quite simply, without any additional steps. Another part of the pre-installed Windows applications can only be removed using specially written scripts or third-party utilities.

Removing programs created by third-party manufacturers from a Windows 10 computer usually proceeds as follows: the system tool launches a special application on the computer – an uninstaller from the developer of the software being removed, which uninstalls (removes) the program from the computer.

Specialized third-party programs uninstall applications more thoroughly than when using the Windows system tool. Often, after uninstalling a program, a lot of traces of the removed application remain on the computer: various files, folders, libraries, etc.

The uninstaller program removes an unnecessary program, scans the Windows operating system, finds the remnants of the removed software, and then cleans the PC of the remaining traces. This method is the most complete cleaning of the system from the remaining debris.

In this guide, you will find instructions on how to uninstall a program in Windows 10 in different ways:

• from Windows 10 settings;
• using the Apps & Features tool;
• uninstalling a program from the Start menu;
• from the command line;
• using Windows PowerShell;
• from a computer optimization program;
• using the uninstaller program.

First, let’s understand where is uninstall programs in Windows 10. The user can open the system tool to uninstall programs through Settings app or Control Panel. Other methods involve the use of commands or the help of third-party applications.

How to uninstall a program from a Windows 10 computer from the Settings app – 1 way

Now we will remove unnecessary Windows 10 programs using the operating system.

Do the following:

1. Enter the start menu.
2. Launch the Settings app.
3. Sign in to Applications.
4. The Apps & Features section contains a list of all programs installed on the computer. Left-click on the program you want to remove from your PC.
5. Additional buttons will open below the program name. Click on the “Delete” button.

1. The process of uninstalling the unnecessary application will start on the computer. To uninstall a pre-installed Windows 10 application, you will need to confirm the action, and when you remove third-party software, an uninstaller from the official developer of the application to be removed will start.

From here, you can uninstall some Windows applications, for other pre-installed applications, the uninstall button will be inactive. These built-in applications can be uninstalled in other ways.

Read more: How to remove unwanted Windows 10 apps – 5 ways

How to remove unnecessary Windows 10 programs from the “Apps and features” section – method 2

This method is identical to the previous one, only the way to access the uninstall programs section is different.

Go through the steps:

1. Right click on the start menu.
2. From the right-click menu that opens, select Apps & Features.

1. Next, select and then uninstall the program using the method described in the previous method.

See also: Optimizing Windows 10 to speed up your PC

How to uninstall a program from the start menu in windows 10 – 3 way

The Windows operating system has a way to quickly uninstall programs without using the Settings app or the tools in the Control Panel.

Go through the following steps:

1. Left click on the start menu.
2. Find the application you don’t need in the list of programs.
3. Right-click on it, select “Delete” from the context menu.

In some cases, the program has a folder in the Start menu that contains the official uninstaller for that application. You need to open the program folder, and then click on the uninstaller file. This file will have similar names: “Uninstall” or “Uninstall XXX”.

Uninstalling a program using the “Control Panel” – 4 way

The Windows 10 Uninstall Tool can be launched from the Control Panel of the operating system.

Do the following:

1. Launch the Control Panel in one of the convenient ways.
2. In the “Programs and Features” window, the “Uninstall or change a program” section will open, in our case, Windows
3. Right-click on the unwanted application, and in the context menu, click “Delete”. Another way: select the program, and then click on the “Uninstall” button located on the panel above the list of programs.

Deleting an application from the program folder – 5 way

This is a more complicated option for uninstalling a program for cases when, for some reason, the application does not appear in the list of programs. We will use the built-in uninstaller of the program, which we will launch from the folder with the installed program.

First of all, we need to find an unnecessary application in the system folder, which is usually located on the Local drive “C:”:

1. Open the system drive in Explorer.
2. Depending on the bitness of the program to be removed, enter the “Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)” folder.
3. Find the program, open the folder with the program.
4. Double-click the left mouse button on the “Uninstall” file to launch the Uninstall Wizard for this application.

When uninstalling programs at the command prompt or in Windows PowerShell, only applications installed using the Windows Installer are displayed in the console. Not all programs use “.msi” installation packages for installation on a PC, so the list of programs available for removal by these methods will not be complete there.

Uninstalling a program on the command line – 6 way

Now we will try to uninstall the program through the Windows 10 command line:

1. Run Command Prompt as Administrator .
2. In the command line interpreter window, enter the command, and then press the “Enter” key:

wmic product get name

This command displays a list of installed programs on the computer.

To uninstall an application, we need the name of the program from the “Name” column in the command prompt window.

1. Enter the command to uninstall the program:

wmic product where name=”XXX” call uninstall /nointeractive

In this command, “XXX” is the name of the program displayed in the command line interpreter window in English or Russian. The “/nointeractive” parameter cancels the input of additional dialogs to start the removal of the application immediately.

For example, to remove Alice’s voice assistant, I entered the following command:

wmic product where name=”Alice Voice Assistant” call uninstall /nointeractive

We remove programs through Windows PowerShell – method 7

Similar to the command line, you can remove an unnecessary program using the Windows PowerShell system tool. Windows 10 pre-installed apps are removed using other commands.

You need to do the following:

1. Run Windows PowerShell as an administrator.
2. In the “Administrator: Windows PowerShell” window, run the command to display a list of installed programs:

Get-WmiObject Win32_Product | ftname,version,vendor,packagename

1. To remove the program, run the command:

(Get-WmiObject Win32_Product -Filter “Name = ‘XXX'”).Uninstall()

In this command: “XXX” is the name of the program in the “name” column. Instead of “XXX” enter the name of the program to be removed.

See also: How to uninstall programs using the command line or Windows PowerShell

How to remove unnecessary programs in Windows 10 in CCleaner – method 8

The uninstall function is available in programs for optimizing the Windows operating system. Now we will remove the unnecessary program using the free CCleaner program.

In the CCleaner program window, do the following:

1. Enter the “Tools” tab.
2. In the “Uninstall programs” section, select an unnecessary program, and then click on the “Uninstall” button.

Uninstalling the program using the uninstaller

Specialized programs for uninstalling unnecessary applications from a computer remove not only the programs themselves, but also the remnants of these programs remaining in the operating system. This is a more advanced uninstall than the standard Windows uninstall feature.

On my site there are many articles about the use of such programs.

Read more: The best uninstallers – programs for uninstalling programs

Using the example of the Uninstall Tool program, I will show the process of uninstalling an application from a computer in normal mode:

1. In the Uninstall Tool program window, right-click on the unnecessary program, and select “Uninstall …” from the context menu.

1. Agree to remove the program, the Uninstall Tool will launch the uninstaller of the application to be removed.
2. Next, the “Uninstall Wizard” scans the system for the remaining traces of the removed program.

1. Delete found files from your computer.

Article Conclusions

To remove programs in Windows 10, the user can use several methods: remove an unnecessary application with a standard Windows tool or uninstall a program using third-party software. The built-in system tool is launched in various ways, and there are also many third-party software for removing programs from a PC.