uninstall

[Sian Doherty]

Thanks for the advice. I found a stack overflow post that suggested just
removing manually and cleaning out the registry too. I think I have it
under control but I haven't gotten around to reinstalling it yet.

On Sun, 2 May 2021, 10:05 Mats Wichmann, <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 4/29/21 6:59 PM, Sian Doherty wrote:
> > I’m trying to uninstall Python 3.8.5 on Windows 10 Pro 20H2 as I had
> multiple environments and as a result corrupted them.
> >
> > When I uninstall from control panel, it takes less than a second and
> says it uninstalled successfully but I can still access python through the
> command prompt by typing python.
> >
> > Is there a different way to uninstall that isn’t through the control
> panel? I would have thought I would do that and then clean out the registry
> separately and the %localappdata%\pip folder.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> There are some uninstall tools, of varying quality. Some depend on you
> having been running them while the install happened, which is probably
> not the case for you. Once you've messed up Windows' idea of the install
> subsystem, it's not that easy to recover. Though some may disagree,
> that's not really Python's fault, the install system seems pretty
> fragile.  Sometimes if the the files needed to process the uninstall
> have been removed but the uninstall itself didn't finish you're in
> trouble - which isn't really the fault of the install system, but then
> you ask how that scenario arose? anyway...
>
> You could look for this tool:
> MicrosoftProgram_Install_and_Uninstall.meta.diagcab - an Internet search
> should find it. it usually does a fairly good job of cleaning up messes
> (well - it's worked well for me in a few dire situations).
>