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 4.8 changelog:
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Added scanning of drive roots for common application folders
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Added ability to scan removable drives for portable apps (off by default)
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Added detection of PortableApps and LiberKey portable app stores
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Added option to disable highlighting of special uninstallers (can completely disable colors on the list now)
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Added more descriptive error message when opening invalid uninstall lists
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Added check for Translations not added to supported cultures
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Added cache stat logging
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Improved accuracy of linking startups to applications
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Replaced references to CCleaner with BleachBit
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Specified support for Windos 10 in application manifest
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Standardized UpdateHelper I/O and error codes, fixes some crashes
Fixes
- Fixed store apps not being cached properly
- Fixed startups that point to invalid file paths causing errors
- Fixed possible NullRef crash when saving settings
- Fixed nullref crash in TryCacheItem
- Fixed invalid InstallLocations crashing AudioPolicy junk scan
- Fixed double dots in log file names
- Fixed crash when trying to get invalid cache entry
- Fixed crash when scanning services caused by WMI problems
- Fixed crash when closing UninstallProgressWindow with reboot prevention
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 4.8 | 3.3 MB (Open Source)
Download: Bulk Crap Uninstaller 4.8 Portable | 3.7 MB
View: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Home Page | Project Page @SF.net
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