A Perfect uTorrent Uninstall

With one point or another, this happens to every computer user on the globe: You install uTorrent, find out you don't like it, or need this, or that its plain useless for your task you wanted to use it for and you intend to uninstall uTorrent. So you open the Windows Add/Remove tool, click the button to uninstall uTorrent... and listen to that you cannot uninstall this program. In this article I will endeavor to explain how to force uninstall uTorrent, that you cannot uninstall when using the Windows Add/Remove tool. Before in which, however, I will try to go into detail what happens during installation.

What you should know to uninstall a software manually
There are several things that happen during the installation of a program.
First, of course, is the copying of files on the specified program folder (which is normally somewhere inside the Program Records folder). Also some files like shared libraries (. dll files) can be copied into a folder inside Program Files called Common Files and a few files such as drivers or shared libraries (again) are copied into your 'WINDOWS\System32' and 'WINDOWS\System32\drivers' folders.

After that the installer makes some changes into the windows registry. The windows registry is really a unified place where all your settings for programs and pertaining to windows itself are stored. The installer can make changes inside the registry for a few reasons. For example if a shared library needs to be registered. Or if certain types of files ought to be associated with the program being installed, so that the individual could open them (e. gary the gadget guy. if you install Microsoft Phrase, then you will be capable to open Microsoft Word documents). After this is done, a key is put into the windows registry in a location where the Windows Add/Remove tool seeks installed programs. During the installation most of these operations are logged in an exclusive file (e. g. setup. log), and the installation program commonly puts that file inside the application's folder and also the uninstaller. When a user tries to eliminate uTorrent through the Add/Remove application, windows looks for the registered uninstaller into the registry, and executes it. The uninstaller undergoes the log file and undoes every one of the changes done during installation. That is certainly, it deletes all the files which have been copied, all the registry tips the installer created etc.
Even so, if there is no record file, or if there is not any record of the changes designed to the registry the uninstaller might forget to uninstall uTorrent, and it will remain there untill it is eliminated by other means.

So in the event uTorrent won't uninstall, how can you perform a force uninstall?
Nicely, if you know how to cooperate with the windows registry, you probably can perform a manual force uninstall.
Before I go into detail about how to do this manually, I'd like to say that is pretty advanced stuff, if you're not a power individual, then perhaps you should consider using specialized software for example the uninstall tool which allows you to do this in just a few important.
If you are a strength user, then let's continue. Primary, let's see how to eliminate the program from the list regarding installed programs. To do you'll want to open the registry browser:

Click Start and choose Run in the menu (If you're using Home windows Vista then press Win+R with your keyboard).

Type regedit and reach Enter.

On the left side is the registry settings tree, use it to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Inside that key you'll find lots of keys that belong to different programs. Some are named following your program's name, others as combining numbers and letters that can make no sense. Look through every one of them until you find one that has the key DisplayName (on the right) along with your program's name in it.

Notice the key UninstallString - this tips to the uninstall program, plus the log file usually resides in the same folder as that software.

If you delete the enter in which you've found the DisplayName key while using value equal to your program's identify, then your program won't appear within the Add/Remove programs list.

Some programs create new entries in the registry to store their setting options, these entries can usually be obtained in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software or in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE - hunt for the program name or the name from the company that made the software package. Don't delete Microsoft though - which contains Windows settings as well. Click here to watch the video demo.