Bulk Crap Uninstaller
Bulk Crap Uninstaller (BCUninstaller or BCU) is a free bulk application uninstaller that features powerful automation. It excels at removing vast amounts of programs with little to no user input and almost no technical knowledge.
It can detect most applications and games (even if they are portable or unregistered), remove remnants, force uninstall, uninstall automatically based on predefined lists, and much more. Bulk Crap Uninstaller is released under the Apache 2.0 open source license and can be used in both private and commercial settings for free and without obligation, as long as no license terms are violated.
In its most basic version, BCU is simple to use, but it also includes features for power users, system administrators, and developers.
Bulk Crap Uninstaller has the following important features:
- Normal registered apps (similar to Programs and Features and many other uninstallers)
- Hidden/protected registered applications
- Applications with corrupted or missing uninstallers
- Portable programs (may have to point BCU where to look)
- Chocolatey parcels.
- Oculus Games/Apps
- Steam Games/Apps
- Windows Features
- Windows Store apps (UWP apps)
- Windows Updates
- Quick, automatic removal.
- Uninstall any number of programs in one batch.
- Minimal to no user involvement is required for uninstallation.
- Uninstall many items simultaneously to speed up the process (with collision protection).
- The console interface can automatically uninstall applications based on conditions without user involvement.
- Many uninstallers do not support silent uninstallation.
- Uninstall apps, even if there are no uninstallers.
- Uninstall applications via the window, shortcut, or directory.
- Can deal with crashing and hanging uninstallers.
Other features:
- Find and delete remnants after uninstallation.
- Clean the Program Files directories from unneeded or empty folders.
- Manually delete any application by bypassing its uninstaller (force uninstall).
- Startup manager
- Application Ratings
- A large amount of information regarding applications is gathered and shown. Users can freely browse, filter, and export everything.
- Filtering with common presets or with fully bespoke rules with Regex support
- Validation of uninstaller certificates
- The significant degree of configurability
- Can execute user-specified tasks before and after uninstallation.
- Runs on .Net 4.0 or newer, or.Net 3.5 with restricted capability (works on Windows 7 or newer with no updates loaded). Fully portable and saves settings to a single file.
Note: Requires .NET framework.