calibre

How to uninstall calibre from your computer

calibre is a computer program. This page holds details on how to remove it from your PC. It is written by Kovid Goyal. Further information on Kovid Goyal can be found here. More information about the program calibre can be found at https://calibre-ebook.com. The program is usually placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2 directory. Keep in mind that this path can differ depending on the user's decision. The full command line for uninstalling calibre is MsiExec.exe /I{85DA0866-A250-4D59-966D-4509B85DCDCF}. Keep in mind that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you may receive a notification for admin rights. calibre.exe is the programs's main file and it takes about 56.50 KB (57856 bytes) on disk.

The following executables are installed alongside calibre. They occupy about 5.61 MB (5879296 bytes) on disk.

• calibre-complete.exe (22.50 KB)
• calibre-customize.exe (22.50 KB)
• calibre-debug.exe (22.50 KB)
• calibre-parallel.exe (22.50 KB)
• calibre-server.exe (22.50 KB)
• calibre-smtp.exe (22.50 KB)
• calibre.exe (56.50 KB)
• calibredb.exe (22.50 KB)
• ebook-convert.exe (22.50 KB)
• ebook-device.exe (22.50 KB)
• ebook-edit.exe (85.00 KB)
• ebook-meta.exe (22.50 KB)
• ebook-polish.exe (22.50 KB)
• ebook-viewer.exe (78.50 KB)
• fetch-ebook-metadata.exe (22.50 KB)
• lrf2lrs.exe (22.50 KB)
• lrfviewer.exe (78.50 KB)
• lrs2lrf.exe (22.50 KB)
• markdown-calibre.exe (22.50 KB)
• web2disk.exe (22.50 KB)
• calibre-eject.exe (31.00 KB)
• calibre-file-dialog.exe (35.00 KB)
• cjpeg-calibre.exe (601.00 KB)
• jpegtran-calibre.exe (324.00 KB)
• JxrDecApp-calibre.exe (417.50 KB)
• optipng-calibre.exe (140.50 KB)
• pdfinfo.exe (1.04 MB)
• pdftohtml.exe (1.23 MB)
• pdftoppm.exe (1.18 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 3.10.0 of calibre. You can find here a few links to other calibre releases:

• 5.24.0
• 2.65.0
• 3.19.0
• 3.22.1
• 5.39.1
• 2.65.1
• 1.36.0
• 0.9.34
• 0.9.41
• 2.23.0
• 5.10.1
• 2.20.0
• 2.0.0
• 2.35.0
• 0.9.12
• 3.17.0
• 3.30.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.22.1
• 3.48.0
• 2.18
• 1.45.0
• 3.31.0
• 1.34.0
• 5.16.1
• 5.29.0
• 3.23.0
• 2.68.0
• 3.47.1
• 3.1.0
• 3.27.1
• 0.9.30
• 2.44.1
• 3.8.0
• 5.1.0
• 2.39.0
• 2.44.0
• 0.9.26
• 0.9.37
• 0.9.16
• 3.22.0
• 2.7.0
• 3.26.1
• 0.9.39
• 1.0.0
• 5.3.0
• 0.9.38
• 3.24.1
• 5.21.0
• 1.33.0
• 1.16.0
• 0.9.18
• 2.73.0
• 2.33.0
• 2.43.0
• 5.27.0
• 1.13.0
• 3.24.2
• 2.28.0
• 2.83.0
• 0.9.44
• 5.33.2
• 3.43.0
• 1.11.0
• 3.18.0
• 0.9.11
• 3.15.0
• 2.66.0
• 0.9.22
• 2.25.0
• 3.39.0
• 5.42.0
• 4.17.0
• 1.19.0
• 3.28.0
• 3.4.0
• 2.85.1
• 0.9.25
• 3.26.0
• 2.70.0
• 4.3.0
• 3.39.1
• 0.9.29
• 0.9.13
• 3.33.1
• 1.18.0
• 1.28.0
• 1.41.0
• 5.37.0
• 3.47.0
• 1.31.0
• 3.41.1
• 0.9.10
• 5.4.2
• 3.20.0
• 3.13.0
• 4.9.0
• 2.37.1
• 3.41.3
• 2.84.0

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

Folders found on disk after you uninstall calibre from your computer:

• C:\Program Files\Calibre2
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\calibre-cache
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_ffsjo5
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_nuilak

Generally, the following files are left on disk:

• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_ctypes.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_ctypes_test.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_elementtree.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_hashlib.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_msi.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_multiprocessing.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_patiencediff_c.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_regex.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_socket.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_sqlite3.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_ssl.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_testcapi.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_win32sysloader.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\_winxptheme.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\apsw.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\bz2.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\bzzdec.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\calibre-eject.exe
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\calibre-file-dialog.exe
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\calibre-launcher.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\certgen.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\chm_extra.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\chmlib.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\cjpeg-calibre.exe
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\cPalmdoc.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._AES.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._ARC2.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._ARC4.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._Blowfish.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._CAST.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._DES.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._DES3.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Cipher._XOR.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Hash._MD2.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Hash._MD4.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Hash._RIPEMD160.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Hash._SHA224.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Hash._SHA256.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Hash._SHA384.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Hash._SHA512.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Random.OSRNG.winrandom.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Util._counter.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\crypto.Util.strxor.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\dukpy.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\expat.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\freetype.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\freetype263MT.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\html.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\html5_parser.html_parser.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\hunspell.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\icu.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\icudt57.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\icuin57.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\icuio57.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\icule57.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\iculx57.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\icutu57.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\icuuc57.dll
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\imageops.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\DLLs\jpeg8.dll

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the keys below:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\calibre
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\calibre
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{85DA0866-A250-4D59-966D-4509B85DCDCF}

Use regedit.exe to delete the following additional registry values from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Program Files\Calibre2\
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Windows\Installer\{85DA0866-A250-4D59-966D-4509B85DCDCF}\

A way to remove calibre from your PC with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

calibre is a program by Kovid Goyal. Sometimes, users decide to erase it. Sometimes this is efortful because uninstalling this manually takes some skill regarding Windows program uninstallation. The best QUICK solution to erase calibre is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and general utility to take care of your Windows PC.

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• go to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the DOWNLOAD NOW button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with the program's design and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of tools.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature


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

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find calibre or simply click the Search field and type in "calibre". If it exists on your system the calibre application will be found automatically. Notice that when you click calibre in the list , the following information regarding the application is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have regarding calibre, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the application you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for calibre:

• The software company is: https://calibre-ebook.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /I{85DA0866-A250-4D59-966D-4509B85DCDCF}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically uninstall calibre.


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

Your Windows PC will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove calibre by Kovid Goyal from your computer, nor are we saying that calibre by Kovid Goyal is not a good application for your computer. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove calibre supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.