KiCad 8.0

A guide to uninstall KiCad 8.0 from your PC

This info is about KiCad 8.0 for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your computer. It is made by KiCad. Further information on KiCad can be seen here. The program is usually located in the C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0 directory (same installation drive as Windows). You can remove 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. The program's main executable file is called kicad.exe and it has a size of 6.06 MB (6349640 bytes).

The following executable files are contained in KiCad 8.0. They occupy 29.95 MB (31407667 bytes) on disk.

• uninstall.exe (131.38 KB)
• bitmap2component.exe (3.57 MB)
• crashpad_handler.exe (625.82 KB)
• dxf2idf.exe (131.82 KB)
• eeschema.exe (2.30 MB)
• gerbview.exe (1.71 MB)
• idf2vrml.exe (292.82 KB)
• idfcyl.exe (50.82 KB)
• idfrect.exe (44.82 KB)
• kicad-cli.exe (3.72 MB)
• kicad.exe (6.06 MB)
• pcbnew.exe (2.30 MB)
• pcb_calculator.exe (1.71 MB)
• pl_editor.exe (2.01 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 8.0.1 of KiCad 8.0. Click on the links below for 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
• 8.0.2
• 8.0.6
• 8.0.51

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Following the uninstall process, the application leaves some files behind on the PC. Part_A few of these are shown below.

Folders remaining:

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

The files below were left behind on your disk by KiCad 8.0 when you uninstall it:

• 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

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\.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

Registry values that are not removed from your computer:

• 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-8.0.1-x86_64.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\kicad-8.0.1-x86_64.exe.FriendlyAppName

A way to delete KiCad 8.0 with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

KiCad 8.0 is a program offered by KiCad. Sometimes, people choose to remove this application. Sometimes this is difficult because deleting this by hand takes some know-how regarding PCs. One of the best SIMPLE practice to remove 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 already installed on your Windows system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around tool to take care of your Windows computer.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful system optimizer.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the applications installed on your computer will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find KiCad 8.0 or simply click the Search field and type in "KiCad 8.0". If it exists on your system the KiCad 8.0 program will be found very quickly. Notice that when you select KiCad 8.0 in the list of applications, the following data regarding the application is available to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have regarding KiCad 8.0, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the application you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will appear. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall KiCad 8.0.


8. After uninstalling KiCad 8.0, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Click Next to start the cleanup. All the items of KiCad 8.0 that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing KiCad 8.0 with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice to uninstall KiCad 8.0 by KiCad from your PC, we are not saying that KiCad 8.0 by KiCad is not a good software application. This text simply contains detailed info on how to uninstall 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.