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 3.9 changelog:
Improvements
- Added detection of VirtualStore registry keys for junk
- Added detection of application compatibility registry junk
- Added Portuguese translation update by Nauta
- Rewrite of message box layout - fixed and improved scaling of elements
- Try to avoid reading entire file when checking if it"s an NSIS uninstaller
Changes
- Changed Select All/None/Invert to affect CheckBoxes if they are enabled
- Changed Select All/None/Invert behavior when some selections are filtered out
- Changed Kill All in process kill window to wait until all processes close before continuing
- Changed UI language selection to show only currently available languages
Fixes
- Fixed process kill window not returning success if applications close by themselves; Added extra logging to the process kill window
- Fixed installer crashing when trying to install Net 3.5 on systems newer than Vista
- Fixed SocketException and CantStartSingleInstanceException crashes on start on some systems; Added a fall back to a safer method of running as single-instance
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 3.9 | 2.5 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Portable | 2.4 MB
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net