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A guide to uninstall BleachBit from your system

BleachBit is a software application. This page is comprised of details on how to uninstall it from your PC. The Windows release was developed by BleachBit. More information about BleachBit can be seen here. You can see more info about BleachBit at . The application is frequently found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit directory (same installation drive as Windows). You can uninstall BleachBit by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\uninstall.exe. Note that you might be prompted for administrator rights. BleachBit's primary file takes about 59.19 KB (60608 bytes) and its name is bleachbit.exe.

The following executables are contained in BleachBit. They take 337.35 KB (345442 bytes) on disk.

  • bleachbit.exe (59.19 KB)
  • bleachbit_console.exe (59.68 KB)
  • fc-cache.exe (20.00 KB)
  • gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe (14.00 KB)
  • gspawn-win32-helper.exe (14.00 KB)
  • uninstall.exe (170.48 KB)
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The information on this page is only about version 4.6.0.2537 of BleachBit. You can find below info on other versions of BleachBit:

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Following the uninstall process, the application leaves leftovers on the computer. Part_A few of these are shown below.

Folders found on disk after you uninstall BleachBit from your computer:
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit
  • C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\BleachBit

The files below were left behind on your disk by BleachBit's application uninstaller when you removed it:
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_bz2.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_ctypes.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_decimal.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_elementtree.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_hashlib.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_lzma.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_scandir.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_socket.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_sqlite3.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\_ssl.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\bleachbit.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\bleachbit_console.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\cacert.pem
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\COPYING
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\data\app-menu.ui
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\dbus-1\system.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\10-base-rendering.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\20-unhint-small-vera.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\28-user.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\29-local.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\30-metric-aliases.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\30-urw-aliases.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\31-cantarell.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\35-repl-custom.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\37-repl-webfonts.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\38-repl-webfonts-custom.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\40-nonlatin.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\40-non-latin-microsoft.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\40-non-latin-misc.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\45-latin.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\45-latin-microsoft.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\45-latin-misc.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\49-sansserif.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\50-user.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\51-local.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\57-dejavu-sans.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\57-dejavu-serif.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\60-latin.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\65-fonts-persian.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\65-nonlatin.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\67-override-aliases.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\68-override.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\69-unifont.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\80-delicious.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\82-no-embedded-bitmaps.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\82-no-force-autohint.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\82-no-ttf-as-bitmap.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\83-yes-bitmaps.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\83-yes-postscript.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\88-forced-synthetic.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\90-non-tt-fonts.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\90-synthetic.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\90-tt-fonts-microsoft.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\90-tt-fonts-misc.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\92-selective-rendering-microsoft.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\92-selective-rendering-misc.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\93-final-rendering.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\94-no-synthetic.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\95-reject.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\97-selective-rendering-custom.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\conf.d\README
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\fonts\fonts.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\gtk-3.0\im-multipress.conf
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\pango\pango.aliases
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\etc\pango\pango.modules
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\fc-cache.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\gi._gi.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\gi._gi_cairo.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\gi.overrides._gi_gst.pyd
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\gspawn-win32-helper.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\Atk-1.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\cairo-1.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\DBus-1.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\DBusGLib-1.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\fontconfig-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\freetype2-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GDesktopEnums-3.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\Gdk-3.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GdkPixbuf-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GdkWin32-3.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GdkX11-3.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\Gio-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GIRepository-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GL-1.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GLib-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GModule-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\GObject-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\Gtk-3.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\HarfBuzz-0.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\libxml2-2.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\Pango-1.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\PangoCairo-1.0.typelib
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\lib\girepository-1.0\PangoFT2-1.0.typelib

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following data will not be uninstalled; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shell\shred.bleachbit
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\BleachBit
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\BleachBit

Additional values that you should delete:
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\bleachbit.exe.FriendlyAppName
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-2230268489-3071004656-2794553689-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\bleachbit.exe


How to erase BleachBit from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

BleachBit is a program released by BleachBit. Some people choose to erase this application. Sometimes this can be troublesome because doing this by hand takes some knowledge regarding PCs. The best SIMPLE approach to erase BleachBit is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows PC, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around utility to optimize your Windows PC.

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  • navigate to Download Link
  • download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
  • install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good Windows optimizer.

3. Press the General Tools button
Go to General Tools


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. A list of the programs installed on the PC will appear

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate BleachBit or simply click the Search feature and type in "BleachBit". If it exists on your system the BleachBit application will be found very quickly. After you click BleachBit in the list of applications, the following information about the application is available to you:


  • Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have about BleachBit, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Details about the program you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.
For example you can see that for BleachBit:





  • The web site of the application is: https://www.bleachbit.org/
  • The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\BleachBit\uninstall.exe
7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will show up. Confirm the removal by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove BleachBit.
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8. After removing BleachBit, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items that belong BleachBit that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling BleachBit using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and able to serve you properly.

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to uninstall BleachBit by BleachBit from your PC, we are not saying that BleachBit by BleachBit is not a good application for your computer. This text simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall BleachBit in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2023-11-06 / Written by Daniel Statescu for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2023-11-06 09:06:49.530