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
Version 3.3 Changelog:
- Added NSIS uninstall automation (uninstall quietly even if not officially supported)
- Added generation of uninstall strings for orphaned applications
- Added detection of uninstaller type of orphaned applications and generation of quiet commands
- Added advanced filter editor and upgraded uninstall lists
- Added filtering by columns and result inversion to search box
- Added advanced clipboard copy
- Added a manual and UI buttons to open it
- Added a Store-App-styled splash screen on startup
- Added pop-up when manually forcing uninstaller to run fails during uninstall
- Added more uninstallation settings: retry if failed, automatically kill stuck
- Added a .Net 4.0 missing pop-up
- Improved detection of InnoSetup uninstallers. Added generation of quiet commands for InnoSetup uninstallers
- Decreased confidence of Store App directories in junk removal
- Disable filtering options on the sidebar if they have nothing to filter
- Changed list color legend to show only valid colors
- Changed uninstaller info export from text to XML
- Changed clipboard copies to not include program name with guids, uninstall strings, etc.
- Changed bulk uninstall progress behavior
- Changed loading box to have no border
- Changed layout of the setting sidebar
- Changed Store App directories to have bad confidence in junk uninstall
- Updated packages
- Updated some translations
- Disabled Shut-down blocking below Vista to fix crashes
- Fixed uninstall abort dialog having wrong parent window
- Fixed main window showing in a corner with default settings
- Fixed Store App uninstaller not working with spaces in path
- Fixed crash when searching invalid or protected directories for orphaned applications
- Fixed walk-away box showing up at the end of the uninstall task
- Fixed rare crash when loading Store Apps
- Fixed Store App information missing Unicode characters
- Fixed process kill window not closing when last process is killed
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 3.3 | 2.3 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Portable | 2.1 MB
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net