Hey all, i have installed KDE4.1 on Windows Vista x64 and am experiencing some issues with Plasma and Amarok, I understood that KDE 4.1 for Windows is still in development at it's early age atm, however, I would like remove it from Windows Vista. So, there seems to be a problem, " There's no Uninstaller to remove KDE " . Hence, why i am asking since there is not Topic or How to guide mentioning " how to remove it from Window " Any help would be appreciated.

There should be an uninstaller of some description in C:Program FilesKDE however it should have added change / remove links in Add / Remove programs.

just remove the folder where you installed kde, if you want to remove config files too they are in %appdata%.kde

The installer also has an option to Remove everything. If it doesn't work then Brandon's suggestion works too.

Hm.. never thought that this issue is so popular... though, there're some people from time to time that pop up on the irc with this question.

So, let's clarify things.

1. KDE does not mess with your Widnows' registry (yet). This means that Windows does not know that you've installed KDE at all. Thus, you won't see the KDE-related entry in the "Add/Remove programm" section of Control Panel.
2. Since it doesn't affect your registry or system mechanics in any way - you don't need special tools or actions to uninstall KDE on windows. Just plainly deleting the KDE installaton directory will do the trick. If you don't want to leave any configs from KDE - you would probably want to remove .kde directory which resides in the user's home directory (for Windows XP - it's C:Documents and settings).
3. If you don't want to delete it yourself, or you'd prefer using some uninstall programm - run the installer. The second page of the installer allows you to chose between upgrading and removing packages. Just use the second option and the whole KDE installation will be removed.

Later, when we'll have to mess with registry settings we should provide you with some means of uninstalling it and restoring the registry settings as they were before using KDE. For now, it's only like that.

Kraplax wrote:Hm.. never thought that this issue is so popular... though, there're some people from time to time that pop up on the irc with this question.

So, let's clarify things.

1. KDE does not mess with your Widnows' registry (yet). This means that Windows does not know that you've installed KDE at all. Thus, you won't see the KDE-related entry in the "Add/Remove programm" section of Control Panel.
2. Since it doesn't affect your registry or system mechanics in any way - you don't need special tools or actions to uninstall KDE on windows. Just plainly deleting the KDE installaton directory will do the trick. If you don't want to leave any configs from KDE - you would probably want to remove .kde directory which resides in the user's home directory (for Windows XP - it's C:Documents and settings).
3. If you don't want to delete it yourself, or you'd prefer using some uninstall programm - run the installer. The second page of the installer allows you to chose between upgrading and removing packages. Just use the second option and the whole KDE installation will be removed.

Later, when we'll have to mess with registry settings we should provide you with some means of uninstalling it and restoring the registry settings as they were before using KDE. For now, it's only like that.

Don't forget the Start menu items!

Cheers

I accidentally installed KDE on the "User" in Windows Vista and now it doesn't allow me to cancel the folders manually nor am I able to uninstall them from the installation file (I don't understand where) like Kraplax suggested. Can anyone please help me?

Also, I wanted to install amarok, but it doesn't appear between the programs that you can install. Is that possible?

Thanks a lot in advance

To install Amarok you should use the amarok-nightly repository:
http://mafia-server.net/amarok-nightly/README
Also take a look at this thread if you have problems reproducing songs:
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=83285

Regarding the uninstall there should be an "Remove installed packages" option somewhere in the Installer. Remember to deselect the "Skip basic settings" (or something like that) in the first page of the wizard.
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on ... _system.3F

seems like now, in 2010, we should kill a bunch of processes manually before uninstall KDE. the processes were run automatically.

also i found lots of registry entries for kde.

well... you still don't want to make proper uninstall for it? it will be very helpful to have an option to uninstall kde but keep data/settings/etc.

my point here is: i want to reinstall x64 kde, it's x32 now. but i have to cast some magic to remove it properly.

thank you in advance,
Andrey

hlopetz wrote:also i found lots of registry entries for kde.

So strange... from what I remember the default behaviour is to don't touch anything in the registry. What kind of entries are you seeing?

Hi,

I use KDE on Fedora, at present I have no more need for KDE on Windows.
Hence I also wish to uninstall, complete cleanup.

Jerrypetersons wrote:Step 2 :

Now run the KDE4.1 Installer Package, here you may have option that Repair/Remove. select remove option.

As of today, the FAQ also refers to this method.

However, using the latest version (0.9.8-0) of the kdewin installer, I could not find this option anywhere.

I have tried to select every installed package (in package manager mode) and change them to remove ("recycle bin" icon), but it doesn't seem to have any effect, either.

To the opposite, it even updated all packages and downloaded new ones After the update, repeating the operation does not seem to help, even partially : nothing gets removed.

Could anyone please tell how to competely, manually remove any KDE component and registry settings ?

KDE is 4.5.4 (stable/latest today), OS is XP SP3.

Thanks!
Xavier

The option to remove an install only shows up if you select to skip basic settings on the first screen of the installer; in that case, the second screen will give you a choice between update/install more packages and remove installed packages.
It may take running the installer all the way through once if the skip basic settings checkbox isn't available on the first screen.

airdrik wrote:The option to remove an install only shows up if you select to skip basic settings on the first screen of the installer; in that case, the second screen will give you a choice between update/install more packages and remove installed packages.

Thanks airdrik,

OK, I found this screen now, but it still does not help me (see 2).


1. About the "Remove install package" screen in the installer

Apparently, it is also required, to have left the installer mode as "End-User" during the last time the installer was executed.

So, if it was not the case (but in "Package Manager" mode) :

• Open the installer
• Unckeck "basic settings"
• Change the mode to "End-User"
• Validate pressing "Finish" on the last screen (otherwise, the basic settings are not saved, apparently).
• Then as you say, restart the installer and skip basic settings.

Now yes, the screen does appear.

But if the installer is instead, in "Package Manager", then I confirm that here :

• This essential screen does not appear here, even if basic settings are skipped.
• Then in the "Package manager" screen, changing any package icons into the "recycle bin" one, do not have any effect either.

So, thank you once again airdrik, you made me perseveer I suspect this feedback could help others, since the installer rather has a weird bahaviour all together. I'm sure it will get improved soon.


2. When selecting "remove install packages"

Then, I am asked to confirmed if I want to remove all apps from ( my install path). I confirm and continue.

Then, I am informed that "There are KDE applications running, etc.". I check all processes in memory, but I cannot see any KDE related process (I also use the excellent Process Explorer from Sysinternals), besides :

• the kdewin installer itself
• the dbus common process (although it does not show up any more, as I repeat these steps).

Then the installer exists. No error, no message... and nothing happens.
The last entry of the log file is :

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[2011-01-07 19:07:07] Debug: static\gui\installerenginegui.cpp 725 run "C:\Archivos de programa\KDE/bin/kdeinit4.exe" ("--list") without errors "path: C:/Archivos de programa/KDE/bin name: kdewin-installer-gui-0 pid: 4944
path: C:/Archivos de programa/KDE/bin name: kdeinit4 pid: 4828


At present, the installer have no access to the repo cache ("download folder"), it is located on an external drive, which is not avail. at the moment. Could this be related ?

Note: the installer has not expressed any complain, it simply felt back to the "bin" subfolder within KDE program folder apparently, by default. Should it require this repo cache to uninstall ?


3. Other ways to unistall

Could anyone please help fixing the installer?

(or faster I suppose)

Could anyone please precise the list of steps required to entirely, cleanly remove any "KDE on Windows" component from XP SP3 ?

• Remove the KDE program folder(s) (easy)
  %ProgramFiles%\KDE
  ...
  
• Remove all per-user preference folders (easy)
  %USERPROFILE%\.local\share\akonadi
  %APPDATA%\.kde
  %APPDATA%\KDE
  ...
  
• Remove all registry entries (fine and fast, as long as you know all keys)
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\kde.org
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu\*\KDE *.*.* (depending on each user menu customization)
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech\OrganizationDefaults\Qt Factory Cache 4.4\com.trolltech.Qt.QIconEngineFactoryInterface:\C:\Archivos de programa\KDE (or the whole Trolltech Branch ?)
  ...

Thanks,
Xavier

xaho, would you mind updating the FAQ by creating a new page "How to uninstall KDE from Windows" or linking your forum post from the FAQ page?

It would be really helpful to have general instructions for both installing and uninstalling on Windows on http://userbase.kde.org. We have a category "KDE on Windows" defined, but so far no-one volunteering to write this up. If anyone is willing to give it a try, feel free to contact me for help.