KiCad 8.0

How to uninstall KiCad 8.0 from your computer

This page contains complete information on how to remove KiCad 8.0 for Windows. The Windows release was created by KiCad. Open here for more info on KiCad. The application is frequently installed in the C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0 folder (same installation drive as Windows). You can uninstall KiCad 8.0 by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\uninstall.exe. Keep in mind that you might get a notification for administrator rights. kicad.exe is the KiCad 8.0's primary executable file and it occupies close to 4.89 MB (5125960 bytes) on disk.

The executables below are part of KiCad 8.0. They occupy an average of 26.69 MB (27990067 bytes) on disk.

• uninstall.exe (131.38 KB)
• bitmap2component.exe (3.60 MB)
• crashpad_handler.exe (625.82 KB)
• dxf2idf.exe (131.82 KB)
• eeschema.exe (1.91 MB)
• gerbview.exe (1.72 MB)
• idf2vrml.exe (292.82 KB)
• idfcyl.exe (50.82 KB)
• idfrect.exe (44.82 KB)
• kicad-cli.exe (2.55 MB)
• kicad.exe (4.89 MB)
• pcbnew.exe (1.91 MB)
• pcb_calculator.exe (1.72 MB)
• pl_editor.exe (1.81 MB)
• python.exe (101.32 KB)
• pythonw.exe (99.32 KB)
• venvlauncher.exe (110.82 KB)
• venvwlauncher.exe (108.82 KB)
• _freeze_module.exe (2.81 MB)
• f2py.exe (117.78 KB)
• t32.exe (95.50 KB)
• t64-arm.exe (178.50 KB)
• t64.exe (105.50 KB)
• w32.exe (89.50 KB)
• w64-arm.exe (164.50 KB)
• w64.exe (99.50 KB)
• cli-32.exe (75.82 KB)
• cli-64.exe (84.82 KB)
• cli-arm64.exe (145.82 KB)
• cli.exe (75.82 KB)
• gui-32.exe (75.82 KB)
• gui-64.exe (85.32 KB)
• gui-arm64.exe (146.32 KB)
• gui.exe (75.82 KB)
• normalizer.exe (117.75 KB)
• pip3.exe (105.86 KB)
• wheel.exe (117.73 KB)

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The information on this page is only about version 8.0.2 of KiCad 8.0. You can find here a few links to other KiCad 8.0 versions:

• 8.0.5
• 8.0.3
• 8.0.0
• 8.0.02
• 8.0.4
• 8.0.21
• 8.0.12
• 8.0.7
• 8.0.1
• 8.0.6
• 8.0.51

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If you are manually uninstalling KiCad 8.0 we suggest you to verify if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Folders that were found:

• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\KiCad
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\org.kicad.kicad
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\kicad

Check for and delete the following files from your disk when you uninstall KiCad 8.0:

• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_cvpcb.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_eeschema.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_freeze_module.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_gerbview.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_kipython.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_pcb_calculator.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_pcbnew.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_pl_editor.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\bitmap2component.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_atomic-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_chrono-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_container-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_date_time-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_filesystem-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_locale-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_prg_exec_monitor-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_random-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_regex-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_serialization-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_system-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_thread-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_unit_test_framework-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\boost_wserialization-vc143-mt-x64-1_83.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\brotlicommon.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\brotlidec.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\brotlienc.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\bz2.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\cairo-2.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\cairo-script-interpreter-2.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\charset-1.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\crashpad_handler.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\crashpad_wer.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_asyncio.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_bz2.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_ctypes.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_decimal.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_elementtree.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_hashlib.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_lzma.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_msi.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_multiprocessing.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_overlapped.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_queue.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_socket.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_sqlite3.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_ssl.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_uuid.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\_zoneinfo.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\bz2.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\ffi-8.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\libcrypto-3-x64.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\libexpat.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\liblzma.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\libssl-3-x64.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\pyexpat.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\select.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\sqlite3.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\winsound.pyd
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\DLLs\zlib1.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\dxf2idf.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\eeschema.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\ffi-8.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\fontconfig-1.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\freetype.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\gerbview.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\getopt.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\git2.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\glew32.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\harfbuzz.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\harfbuzz-subset.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\iconv-2.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\icudt74.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\icuin74.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\icuio74.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\icutu74.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\icuuc74.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\idf2vrml.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\idfcyl.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\idfrect.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\intl-8.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\jpeg62.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kicad.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kicad_3dsg.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kicad-cli.exe
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kicad-cmd.bat
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kicommon.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kigal.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\legacy.dll
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__future__.py
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__hello__.py
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__phello__\__init__.py
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__phello__\ham\__init__.py
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__phello__\ham\eggs.py
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__phello__\spam.py
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__pycache__\__future__.cpython-311.pyc
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__pycache__\_compat_pickle.cpython-311.pyc
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__pycache__\_compression.cpython-311.pyc
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__pycache__\_markupbase.cpython-311.pyc
• C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\Lib\__pycache__\_strptime.cpython-311.pyc

Registry that is not cleaned:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_pcb
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_pro
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_sch
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_wks
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\kicad.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\KiCad.kicad_pcb.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\KiCad.kicad_pro.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\KiCad.kicad_sch.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\KiCad.kicad_wks.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\KiCad.pro.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\KiCad.sch.8.0
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\KiCad
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\RADAR\HeapLeakDetection\DiagnosedApplications\kicad.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\KiCad 8.0

Additional registry values that are not cleaned:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_pcb\OpenWithProgids\KiCad.kicad_pcb.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_pro\OpenWithProgids\KiCad.kicad_pro.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_sch\OpenWithProgids\KiCad.kicad_sch.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.kicad_wks\OpenWithProgids\KiCad.kicad_wks.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pro\OpenWithProgids\KiCad.pro.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sch\OpenWithProgids\KiCad.sch.8.0
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\eeschema.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kicad.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\pcbnew.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\pl_editor.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\kicad-8.0.2-x86_64.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\kicad-8.0.2-x86_64.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-3897055142-2524515420-2046182087-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\gerbview.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-3897055142-2524515420-2046182087-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\kicad.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-3897055142-2524515420-2046182087-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\pcb_calculator.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-3897055142-2524515420-2046182087-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\UserName\Downloads\kicad-8.0.2-x86_64.exe

How to erase KiCad 8.0 from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

KiCad 8.0 is a program released by the software company KiCad. Sometimes, users try to uninstall this application. This is hard because doing this by hand takes some know-how regarding Windows internal functioning. One of the best SIMPLE practice to uninstall KiCad 8.0 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, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and all around utility to maximize the performance of your Windows computer.

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• visit Download Link
• download the program by pressing the DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire the program's interface and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful program.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the applications existing on your PC will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you locate KiCad 8.0 or simply click the Search feature and type in "KiCad 8.0". If it is installed on your PC the KiCad 8.0 program will be found very quickly. After you click KiCad 8.0 in the list of programs, some information regarding the application is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have regarding KiCad 8.0, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the application you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will come up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove KiCad 8.0.


8. After removing KiCad 8.0, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong KiCad 8.0 which have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling KiCad 8.0 with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and able to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove KiCad 8.0 by KiCad from your computer, nor are we saying that KiCad 8.0 by KiCad is not a good application. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to remove KiCad 8.0 supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.