Step 4: Wipe out possible junk files in the Registry editor (find details on registry cleaning at the end of article). Then seek leftover files and delete those as well. Open the Roaming folder and check for a uTorrent folder. Go to AppData (Win+R), type Appdata in and press Enter. right-click a desktop shortcut and choose “Open file location”. Choose the View tab, check “Show hidden files, folders and drives” option and click Apply. Step 1: To see hidden files and folders, use the Search – type in File Explorer Options and press Enter. Also, manual removal is not just deleting a folder with an application – we will also need to detect any hidden folders that could remain, delete leftover files and clean up the registry. Simple and reliable way to properly remove a program. Uncheck the “Start uTorrent when Windows starts” and “Start minimized” options. In case the app is not displayed there, go to torrent settings (General). Step 2: Tap Startup on the top, locate uTorrent, right-click it and choose Disable. In the Processes tab, locate the app in the list, click it once and then the End Task button in the bottom. Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination and select Task Manager, or Ctrl+Shift+Esc combination to go there directly. It means one has to finish the running process, as well as disable automatic startup on Windows launch. Despite this, there are user-friendly methods to get rid of it: manual deleting of any associated files, via Windows tools, and/or third-party software. How to uninstall uTorrent on Windows 10?įirst of all, open the uTorrent folder and find out that it has no built-in uninstaller. Anyhow, here are several ways to remove the app from Windows 10. In some cases, the free version is bundled with suspicious software: browsers, crypto-mining software, adware, etc. Also, in most cases, a torrent client launches automatically with the OS, runs in the background, and loads CPU. Often, people wish to remove it is the abundance of inescapable advertising.

Our goal in this series of posts is just to guide a user on how to uninstall uTorrent or any other client completely and properly. Of course, there’s a controversial debate on legality, we won’t go there. It is especially fit in regards to large size files. UTorrent is the most popular BitTorrent download manager that is widely used for direct file sharing between users.

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