Therefore, all apps were uninstalled one by one.
CCleaner does not seem to support batch uninstallation of many apps at the same time. Test 1: How well does CCleaner uninstall apps?Īudacity, IrfanView, PowerISO, Photoscape, Steam and Winzip were all uninstalled using CCleaner version. We used jv16 PowerTools for the searching of data simply because it is the only app that we are aware of being able to search both the file system and the system registry with one tool, using multiple search words at the same time. After this, the system was again restarted and jv16 PowerTools’s Finder feature was used to list any remaining files, folders, registry keys and registry entries. After this, a software uninstaller product was installed and each of the apps uninstalled with it. These apps were included because they represent popular Windows apps, we are not implying that these software should be uninstalled.Įach of the mentioned apps were installed and the system was restarted. The installed apps were: Audacity, IrfanView, PowerISO, Photoscape, Steam and Winzip. The Windows 10 was fully updated at the time of the testing. We installed some common apps to a freshly installed Windows 10. The products were chosen for testing based on their popularity. Each product was downloaded from its official website. The tested versions were the latest available at the time of the testing. The products are listed in alphabetical order. We benchmarked the following products: Product They claim they can uninstall apps better.
This is where products claiming to uninstall apps come in. This is essentially the mechanism why Windows systems get cluttered with left-over data over time. This also means there are basically no checks to confirm that the app was correctly uninstalled or whether anything was left behind. What most people don’t know is that when you normally uninstall an app from your Windows, the entire process is performed by the app you are uninstalling. One could assume that uninstalling something from your Windows PC is trivial: You click the Uninstall button, magic happens and the app has been removed from the system. The purpose of this comparison is to evaluate which product uninstalls apps from Windows 10 with the best efficiency. Introduction – The best software uninstaller for Windows?
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