How to install and use Bulk Crap Uninstaller (basics)

Winget command:

winget install -e --id Klocman.BulkCrapUninstaller

Terminal window:

Enter key on the keyboard:

In the future I plan making Winget tutorial.

In the address area of desired web browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Brave, …) type in or copy paste BCU website address and press enter key on the keyboard.

If there is some existing web address in the URL area, left mouse button click in the empty part of URL area so current address is selected and you can start typing your address. If URL area is empy, you can just left mouse button click somewhere inside and start typing.

BCU website:

https://www.bcuninstaller.com/

Website URL/address area:

Enter key on the keyboard:

You can download it from dAppCDN or SourceForge. For this tutorial I used SourceForge.

At the time of making this tutorial is latest version is v5.9.

If Microsoft Defender SmartScreen notification window shows up, first left mouse button click on the More info and then click Run anyway.

You can read the license agreement if you desire.

If you clicked Browse button in new window with left mouse button click on the desired folder and then click button OK.

Don't create Start Menu folder if you do not want it left mouse button click on the chexbox to select it!

If you left mouse button click on the Back button you can change previously defined settings in this installation window.

In case you selected for BCU to open on finished installation you may see notification Windows User Account Control if you want to open the BCUninstaller.exe just left mouse button click on the Yes button to confirm.

You can upack with archive program like 7zip, WinRAR, … but for this tutorial I am using Windows 11 (also available in Windows 10) integrated archive extractor.

If Show extracted folder when completed checkbox is selected upon of finished extracting extracted folder will be open inside Windows file manager.

.exe extension may be shown or not, it depends on your Windows settings.

If Windows User Account Control asks you if you want to open the BCUninstaller.exe just left mouse button click on the Yes button to confirm.

Now you should be able to use the BCU.

If you want to change the program language left mouse button click on the Default and change the program language where after selecting left mouse button click on the Apply button to confirm your selection.

Left mouse button click on the checkboxes to select/deselect desired options:

• Show uninstallers in groups Uninstallers will be grouped by the first character of the uninstaller title.
• Select using checkboxes If you want to uninstall multiple programs at once, but I prefer checked it off to do one at a time.
• Highlight certified uninstallers Highlight uninstallers certified by relevant authorities.

Left mouse button click on the checkboxes to select/deselect desired options:

• Higlight invalid uninstallers to higlight invalid/corrupted uninstallers.
• Show unregistered applications in the list Check to show programs that are not registred in Windowsbut it is part of the main program.

Left mouse button click on the checkboxes to select/deselect desired options:

• Automatically look for updates on aplication start To check for BCU updates when it starts up.
• Automatically send anonymous usage statistics If you allow the BCU to send usage statistics to it’s owner.
• Enable user ratings of aplications Usable to know if program is on good or bad standing. I think if there is no rating for a program BCU will post it as one star.

Left mouse button click on the checkboxes to select/deselect desired options:

• Uninstall If you want to uninstall desired program with his official uninstaller.
• Quiet Uninstall program without any user input of the official program uninstaller.

With left mouse button click on the program to stop from the list and then click Kill button. In case there is more than one program on the list, you can close them all at once with left mouse button click on the Kill all button. When program is killed, left mouse button click on the Continue button.

When uninstallation is finished in BCU window you will see the check. In some cases some uninstallers will open some kind of window like an website, close that window or windows to proceed to left mouse button click on the Close button.

You can just left mouse button click on the Delete selected button but you can do few stuff:

• Checked checkbox means that leftover will be deleted, while unchecked will not.
• You can select different confidence levels, Good and Very good are in almost all cases okay to delete while Questionable or Bad be carefull about. All results bellow the selected confidence will be ignored. It may be that non of the leftovers are available. If you select Bad you will get an notification if you really want to show them because it can be dangerous! To confirm left mouse button click on the Yes button.

I used Windows Desktop for registry leftovers backup in this tutorial.

Now the program and the traces should be removed.