Force uninstall of Visual Studio

I was running in to the same issue, but have just managed a full uninstall by means of trusty old CMD: D:\vs_ultimate.exe /uninstall /force Where D: is the location of your installation media (mounted iso, etc). You could also pass /passive (no user input required – just progress displayed) or /quiet to the above command … Read more

Android – Preserve or delete files created by the application on uninstall

Seems like there have been some developments since 2009 :). From the documentation: If you’re using API Level 8 or greater, use getExternalCacheDir() to open a File that represents the external storage directory where you should save cache files. If the user uninstalls your application, these files will be automatically deleted. However, during the life … Read more

How to Reinstall Broken npm

Delete the Global NPM Folder https://stackoverflow.com/a/5926706/349659 npm list -g For Windows this will most likely be: %AppData%\npm\node_modules You can paste that into a folder’s address bar and it will take you there. Once there delete the folder named npm. Download the Latest Release of NPM https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/latest Grab the zip and unzip it to your node_modules … Read more

I screwed up, how can I uninstall my program?

Update, Stein Åsmul: Injecting this newer list of cleanup approaches. Find your package in C:\Windows\Installer, where Windows keeps copies of installed MSI packages. The names are generated randomly, so you’ll have to look at the creation dates of the files. Open the MSI file with Orca. (Unfortunately there is no simple download for the orca … Read more

What’s the opposite of ‘make install’, i.e. how do you uninstall a library in Linux?

make clean removes any intermediate or output files from your source / build tree. However, it only affects the source / build tree; it does not touch the rest of the filesystem and so will not remove previously installed software. If you’re lucky, running make uninstall will work. It’s up to the library’s authors to … Read more

How can I remove a package from Laravel using PHP Composer?

Composer 1.x and 2.x Running the following command will remove the package from vendor (or wherever you install packages), composer.json and composer.lock. Change vendor/package appropriately. composer remove vendor/package Obviously you’ll need to remove references to that package within your app. I’m currently running the following version of Composer: Composer version 1.0-dev (7b13507dd4d3b93578af7d83fbf8be0ca686f4b5) 2014-12-11 21:52:29 Documentation … Read more

Powershell: Uninstall application by UpgradeCode

Since you mention upgrade code, it must mean that you are talking about an MSI file (Windows Installer). As stated by others such an uninstall is normally performed auto-magically by a properly authored MSI package – it is referred to as a major upgrade – which is essentially an uninstall of the existing version of … Read more

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