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 4.5 release notes:
This update brings improvements to automation - less clutter on screen during automated uninstallation and new command-line utility: BCU-console.exe. This utility can be used for scripting to remove application lists fully automatically and with no GUI.
Bulk Crap Uninstaller 4.5 changelog:
- Added console utility for scripting - fully automatic uninstalls
- Added quick filters menu and new filtering presets
- Added ability to filter appications by them having startup entries
- Added ability to hide automatized uninstaller windows (enabled by default)
- Added scrollbars to setting pages that can overflow to fix cutoffs
- Uninstaller automation window now has opacity when not focused
- Improved identification of dialog boxes during automation, fixes some rare problems
- Updated taskscheduler and dotnetzip libraries
- Updated manual
- Fixed possible resource leak
- Refactoring and minor bugfixes
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 4.5 | 3.1 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 4.5 Portable | 3.3 MB
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net