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
Changelog:
Major code rewrite for application detection logic and loading UI, resulting in a speed-up and more applications being detected.
Main application
- Rewrite of application detection: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
- Automatically detect where user installs apps, and look for orphans there.
- Improved detection of missing app information.
- UI is no longer blocked during loading: Can be dragged and is more stable.
- Improved error handling in multiple locations.
- Changed closed process detection too treat access denied as closed process.
- Added checks to prevent unnecessary exceptions.
- Removed some unnecessary file accesses.
- Fixed automatization settings not being honored.
- Fixed some directories not being blacklisted properly.
- Fixed first start dialog not showing on top properly, and removed ability to maximize it.
Installer
- Added options to not install extra languages to the installer.
- Added option to show readme to installer.
- Changed app name to BCUninstaller
- Only copy CleanLogs.bat during portable install.
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 3.7 | 2.5 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Portable
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net