Gpg4win Compendium -- E Uninstalling Gpg4win (2024)

E Uninstalling Gpg4win

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If you wish to uninstall Gpg4win, you should first shut down all otherapplications that are not required, and backup all certificates. Ifyou are working on a computer with restricted rights, you will need tobe registered with administrator rights for deinstallationpurposes. If the installation was already carried out through youruser account, it has administrator rights.

Important:
Before you start the deinstallation process, it is highly recommendedthat you "clean" your e-mails in Outlook which have been processedwith GpgOL of all GpgOL information. Because: Gpg4win/GpgOL sets aspecific marker for each of your crypto-e-mails in Outlook. You haveto reset this marker prior to uninstalling the program, so that othercryptography software can later read and encrypt your e-mailscorrectly.

For the purpose of this re-migration, GpgOL will make the following function available in Outlook:
Select an Outlook e-mail folder, whose e-mails you wish to reset,then click on Extras -> Remove GpgOL features fromthis folder.

You will be advised that GpgOL will be shut down (for the subsequentdeinstallation process). Confirm whether you wish to clean thee-mails of the respective folder of the GpgOL markings with Yes.
Now execute this command for all Outlook folders.

Once you have reset all folders, you can begin to uninstall Gpg4win.
There are three ways of uninstalling the program:

• Using Microsoft Windows' dashboard tools:

  Open Start -> Settings -> Controlpanel -> Software and select GnuPG for Windows.

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  Activating [Remove] will uninstall all Gpg4win programcomponents from your operating system.

• Another way of uninstalling Gpg4win is to use the exe filegpg4win-uninstall.exe. This file is supplied withGpg4win and can be found in your installation folder (usuallyC:\Programme\GNU\GnuPG\).If you have selected a path that is different from the defaultpath during the installation process, you will find thedeinstallationprogram in the corresponding location.
• This exe file is also found in the start menu under Gpg4win.

In all three cases, all Gpg4win files will be removed from theinstallation folder, and from the link in the start menu, desktop andquick start bar.

User-specific and system-wide application file folders with theconfiguration settings below will not be deleted:

• User-specific GnuPG application data
  in %APPDATA%\gnupg, generally correspondswith file folder:
  C:\Documents and settings\<Benutzername>\Application data\gnupg\

  This gnupg file folder contains all personal GnuPGinformation, hence private certificates, trust settings andprogram configurations.

• System-wide GnuPG application data
  in%COMMON_APPDATA%\GNU, usually corresponds withfile folder:
  C:\Documents and settings\AllUsers\Application data\GNU\

F.1 Uninstalling Gpg4win-1.1.3

Once Gpg4win-1.1.3 has been uninstalled, the following file folders orregistry keys will remain:

• File name:
  %APPDATA%\gnupg (Continues tobe used by a Gpg4win2 installation.)
  Important: This is where your personal private and publiccertificates and GnuPG settings are found.
• Registry key:
  HKLM\Software\GNU\GnuPG(No longer used by a Gpg4win2"=installation.)
  HKCU\Software\GNU\GPG4Win(No longer used by a Gpg4win2"=installation.)
  HKCU\Software\GNU\GpgOL(No longer used by a Gpg4win2"=installation.)
  HKCU\Software\GPGee(No longer used by a Gpg4win2"=installation.)
  

E Uninstalling Gpg4win

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