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 3.19 changelog:
- Added scanning of HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer* for MSI junk
- Added scanning of HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData* for MSI junk
- Added app.manifests to helper apps (will now ask for admin rights instead of failing)
- Added credit to MFM Dawdeh for Arabic translation
- Switched preferred .Net version to v4.0 from v3.5
- Huge speed improvement of displaying junk remove window
- Speed improvement of checking/unchecking items on lists
- Updated TaskScheduler library to 2.6.3, cleaned up library references
- Fixed junk remove window getting stuck loading when a lot of junk was found
- Fixed junk scan detecting BCU itself as junk in some circumstances
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 3.19 | 2.6 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Portable
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net