Bulk Crap Uninstaller is a free (as in speech) program uninstaller. It excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal user input. It can clean up leftovers, detect orphaned applications, run uninstallers according to premade lists, and much more. Even though BCU was made with IT pros in mind, by default it is so straight-forward that anyone can use it effortlessly!
Bulk Crap Uninstaller features:
- Detect and uninstall Windows Store apps
- Uninstall multiple items at once to speed up the process (with collision prevention)
- Uninstall any number of applications in a single batch
- Minimal user input is required during uninstallation
- Can find and remove leftovers after uninstallation
- Can uninstall some apps even if they don"t have any uninstallers
- Detects applications with damaged or missing uninstallers
- Adds quiet uninstall options to some uninstallers, even if they do not support them by default
- Uninstall lists for automation
- Startup manager
- Verification of uninstaller certificates
- Fully portable, settings are saved to a single file
Bulk Crap Uninstaller 3.17 changelog:
Junk detection
- Major refactoring/rewrite of junk scanning, much easier to add new rules
- Added RegisteredApplications registry junk scanner
- Added scanning of WER\ReportQueue when searching for WER junk
- Search in bin32 and bin64 subfolders for executables
- Look for app executables even if the trimmed app name is short
- Big speedup of CLSID junk scanning
- Speedup of WER search
- Fixed WER search sometimes failing to find raports
- Fixed some store app junk getting flagged as unsafe to remove when it wasn"t
Junk view window
- Split junk results into specific groups
- Changed directory junk open action to open parent folder and focus on the directory, instead of directly opening it
- Improved how registry key values are displayed in junk list
Translations
- Merged update to Portugese translation by Artur A. Pereira
- Fixed some translation configuration issues
- Fixed missing string placeholder in Portugese Progress_Registry_Processing
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 3.17 | 2.6 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Portable
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net