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 3.6 focuses on improving junk detection and manual uninstall:
- Added dialog to close running apps during junk removal.
- Added detection of Windows Error Reporting junk.
- Added detection of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing junk.
- Added detection of \FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules junk.
- Added extra confidence to directories that will be empty after removing junk.
- Added option to still show leftover list if all items have low confidence.
- Added "Task" in front of task junk paths.
- Added a new feedback box.
- Improved matching of junk to product names.
- Improved detection of registry junk.
- Fixed junk search not scanning some subdirectories.
- Fixed names of some apps being set to empty.
- Fixed crash on invalid disabled registry startup entries.
- Fixed nullref when opening a registry key fails
- Fixed custom application install paths not working if surrounded with quotes
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 3.6 | 2.5 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Portable
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net