During the installation of programs, as a rule, a separate folder is created on the hard disk of the computer, an additional section is placed in the main menu, a shortcut is created on the desktop, and changes are made to the system registry. When you uninstall this program, its uninstaller should eliminate all of the above. However, he does not always succeed in doing this in full, and as a result, unused residues of deleted programs accumulate in the system registry and on the hard disk.
Instructions
Step 1
Expand the main menu of the operating system if you want to delete the partition left after uninstalling the application from it. Go to this section and right-click on it. In the pop-up context menu, select the "Delete" line, and answer in the affirmative to the request to confirm the operation - click the "Yes" button.
Step 2
Run the file manager if you need to clean the hard drive from unnecessary files left after uninstalling the program. In Windows, this can be done by pressing the Win and E keys. Go to the Program Files folder on the system drive - this is where, by default, applications place their directories. Find the folder whose name matches the name of the remote program and click it once with the mouse. To delete the directory with all its contents to the trash can, press the Delete button, and to permanently delete (bypassing the trash) use the Shift + Delete key combination.
Step 3
Go to the folder named ProgramData - it is located at the same level of the directory hierarchy as Program Files. In it, application programs store temporary files with data used in the process of work. As in the previous step, find and delete the folder related to the non-existent program. If your version of the operating system does not have the ProgramData directory, then the corresponding temporary data folder should be looked for in the Application Data directory. It is placed in a folder, the name of which corresponds to your account (by default - Admin), and this folder, in turn, is located inside the Documents and Settings directory of the system drive.
Step 4
Run the Windows Registry Editor if you also want to delete unused entries of the uninstalled program from it. This can be done by pressing the Win + R keyboard shortcut followed by the regedit command and pressing the Enter key. Use the hotkeys Ctrl + F to open the search dialog, and then enter the name of the remote program or part of it and click the Find Next button. When the editor finds entries in the registry related to the program you are interested in, before deleting them, be sure to make sure that this is exactly what is required - there is no undo operation in the registry editor.
Step 5
Use specialized programs to clean the registry - they have functions for finding and removing entries that are not related to any of the installed programs. It is not difficult to find such an application on the Internet - for example, it can be a free version of the Uniblue RegistryBooster program (https://uniblue.com/ru/software/registrybooster).
