How to Uninstall Spotify Completely From Your PC?

Do you want to uninstall Spotify from the computer? Encounter errors when trying to remove or update Spotify? Have trouble completely remove the software? Take it easy. This post shows you how to manually uninstall this program entirely.

How to uninstall Spotify manually from your PC?

Step 1. Exit Spotify before uninstalling it

If the software 8 is still running, you have to shut it down before uninstalling. Just right click on its icon in the system tray, and select Exit. You can also launch Task Manager to make sure there is no related process running on the background.

Right click the taskbar at the button and select Task Manager option.

Select the processes related to Spotify and then click End Task.

Step 2. Uninstall Spotify from your Windows

Windows 10:

Click Start menu, choose Settings in the menu.

Click on System in the opened settings window.

Click on Apps & Features on the left side and select the unwanted program on the right side.

Click on Uninstall button and click Uninstall when a window appears.

Windows 8:

Right click Start icon and select Programs and Features option from the list.

In the installed programs list, scroll down to locate Spotify, and click on it and select Uninstall button to start the uninstall.

Windows 7/Vista:

Access Control Panel from Start menu, and click Uninstall a program in the Control Panel.

Scroll through to locate Spotify, highlight it and then click Uninstall button.

Windows XP:

Click on Start and select Control Panel, and double click Add/Remove Programs.

Fin the unwanted software from the list, highlight it and then click Uninstall button.

After that, restart your computer if necessary. That is the standard way to uninstall windows programs. For the program that has a dedicated uninstaller, you can right click the program shortcut > choose Open file location > run the file named uninstall.exe (or unins000.exe) in the installation folder to perform normal uninstall.

Step 3. Remove leftovers using the Windows Registry

If you're comfortable working with the Windows Registry yourself, you can perform a manual force uninstall. Be careful when working in your operating system's database as you don't want to accidentally delete essential files. It goes without saying that this is pretty advanced stuff, and if you're not a power user, then perhaps you should consider downloading an uninstaller.

1. Delete registry entries of Spotify

Find the directory for the application and delete all the files in the directory. Delete the directory.

Open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE and find the folder for the application. Delete the folder.

Open regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE and find the folder for the application. Delete the folder.

To remove the application entry from Add/Remove Programs (if present) open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and find the folder for the application. Delete the folder.

Some applications have Services attached to them. If this is the case, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services, locate and delete the service.

Notice: We only recommend advanced computer users to manually delete Spotify leftovers in Windows Registry. Any improper modification may result in severe problem or even system crash. Always backup your registry before making any change there. Also, you can use a registry cleaner instead to save troubles.

2. Delete Junk files/folders in hard disk

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs and delete relevant entries.

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and delete relevant entries.

C:\Documents and Settings\%YourUserID%\Start Menu\Programs and delete relevant entries.

[Do this for each User ID listed]

C:\Documents and Settings\%YourUserID%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and delete relevant entries.

[Do this for each User ID listed]

If no entries were found in the previous step and the application launches automatically, navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows

and delete the entry.

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