Bitwarden

How to uninstall Bitwarden from your computer

Bitwarden is a computer program. This page is comprised of details on how to uninstall it from your PC. It is developed by Bitwarden Inc.. Open here for more details on Bitwarden Inc.. Usually the Bitwarden program is placed in the C:\Program Files\Bitwarden directory, depending on the user's option during install. C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\Uninstall Bitwarden.exe is the full command line if you want to uninstall Bitwarden. Bitwarden's main file takes around 130.53 MB (136871096 bytes) and its name is Bitwarden.exe.

Bitwarden is composed of the following executables which occupy 130.82 MB (137170248 bytes) on disk:

• Bitwarden.exe (130.53 MB)
• Uninstall Bitwarden.exe (178.96 KB)
• elevate.exe (113.18 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 1.29.1 of Bitwarden. You can find below info on other releases of Bitwarden:

• 1.23.0
• 1.33.0
• 2023.3.2
• 2023.8.2
• 2024.4.1
• 2024.10.2
• 2024.11.2
• 2024.11.0
• 2023.8.4
• 2022.5.0
• 1.22.1
• 1.28.1
• 2024.4.0
• 2023.1.1
• 2024.1.0
• 1.26.0
• 1.21.0
• 2022.6.0
• 1.24.4
• 1.26.3
• 1.18.0
• 2024.3.0
• 1.31.3
• 1.31.2
• 2022.10.0
• 1.24.1
• 2023.12.1
• 1.20.1
• 1.27.0
• 2024.2.1
• 2023.7.0
• 2024.2.0
• 2023.1.0
• 2022.6.1
• 1.25.1
• 2024.4.3
• 2024.10.1
• 2022.9.0
• 1.26.5
• 1.31.0
• 2023.9.3
• 2023.5.1
• 1.20.0
• 2023.4.0
• 1.28.0
• 2024.8.1
• 2024.11.1
• 2024.6.3
• 2024.8.2
• 1.25.0
• 1.22.2
• 2024.5.0
• 2022.5.1
• 1.30.0
• 2023.9.0
• 2023.7.1
• 2022.8.1
• 2024.8.0
• 2023.3.1
• 1.27.1
• 2023.3.0
• 2024.6.0
• 1.26.4
• 1.24.6
• 2024.7.0
• 1.29.0
• 1.32.0
• 2023.5.0
• 2022.12.0
• 1.17.2
• 2024.9.0
• 1.31.1
• 2023.10.0
• 2023.9.2
• 2022.10.1
• 1.28.2
• 2023.2.0
• 2024.6.2
• 1.19.0
• 1.23.1
• 1.32.1
• 2022.9.1
• 1.17.1
• 2023.10.1
• 2024.3.2
• 1.28.3
• 2024.6.1
• 2024.6.4
• 2024.7.1
• 2022.8.0
• 2023.9.1
• 2022.6.2
• 2023.8.3
• 2022.11.0
• 2023.12.0

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After the uninstall process, the application leaves some files behind on the computer. Some of these are shown below.

Folders that were left behind:

• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden

Usually, the following files remain on disk:

• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\Bitwarden.exe
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\chrome_100_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\chrome_200_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\d3dcompiler_47.dll
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\ffmpeg.dll
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\icudtl.dat
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\libEGL.dll
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\libGLESv2.dll
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\LICENSE.electron.txt
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\LICENSES.chromium.html
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\am.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ar.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\bg.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\bn.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ca.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\cs.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\da.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\de.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\el.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\en-GB.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\en-US.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\es.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\es-419.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\et.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\fa.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\fi.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\fil.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\fr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\gu.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\he.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\hi.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\hr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\hu.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\id.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\it.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ja.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\kn.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ko.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\lt.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\lv.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ml.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\mr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ms.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\nb.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\nl.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\pl.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\pt-BR.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\pt-PT.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ro.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ru.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\sk.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\sl.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\sr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\sv.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\sw.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\ta.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\te.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\th.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\tr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\uk.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\vi.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\zh-CN.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\locales\zh-TW.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources.pak
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\app.asar
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\app-update.yml
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\elevate.exe
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\native-messaging.bat
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\ArchitectureAgnosticRegistry.vbs
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\ArchitectureSpecificRegistry.vbs
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\JsonSafeTest.wsf
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\regCreateKey.wsf
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\regDeleteKey.wsf
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\regList.wsf
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\regListStream.wsf
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\regPutValue.wsf
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\regUtil.vbs
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\resources\regedit\vbs\util.vbs
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\snapshot_blob.bin
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\swiftshader\libEGL.dll
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\swiftshader\libGLESv2.dll
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\Uninstall Bitwarden.exe
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\v8_context_snapshot.bin
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\vk_swiftshader.dll
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\vk_swiftshader_icd.json
• C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\vulkan-1.dll
• C:\Users\%user%\Desktop\Bitwarden.lnk
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater\package.7z
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater\pending\Bitwarden-Installer-1.29.1.exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater\pending\update-info.json
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\AppIconCache\125\com_bitwarden_desktop
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\app.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Cache\data_0
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Cache\data_1
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Cache\data_2
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Cache\data_3
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Cache\f_000001
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Cache\index
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Code Cache\js\index
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Bitwarden\Code Cache\wasm\index

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following keys will not be cleaned; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\bitwarden
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\173a9bac-6f0d-50c4-8202-4744c69d091a

Open regedit.exe in order to remove the following registry values:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\Bitwarden.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\Bitwarden\Bitwarden.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater\pending\Bitwarden-Installer-1.29.1.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater\pending\Bitwarden-Installer-1.29.1.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-4108309783-2771095369-227267150-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\Bitwarden\Bitwarden.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-4108309783-2771095369-227267150-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater\pending\Bitwarden-Installer-1.29.1.exe

How to uninstall Bitwarden from your computer with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Bitwarden is a program by Bitwarden Inc.. Sometimes, users choose to remove this program. This can be hard because uninstalling this manually requires some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows applications by hand. The best SIMPLE solution to remove Bitwarden is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and all around tool to take care of your system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful program.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature


5. All the programs installed on the PC will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find Bitwarden or simply click the Search field and type in "Bitwarden". If it is installed on your PC the Bitwarden app will be found very quickly. When you click Bitwarden in the list of apps, some data regarding the program is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other people have regarding Bitwarden, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. Confirm the removal by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall Bitwarden.


8. After uninstalling Bitwarden, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items of Bitwarden that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Bitwarden with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to uninstall Bitwarden by Bitwarden Inc. from your computer, nor are we saying that Bitwarden by Bitwarden Inc. is not a good software application. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Bitwarden in case you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.