Altium Designer 20

How to uninstall Altium Designer 20 from your system

This page is about Altium Designer 20 for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your PC. It was coded for Windows by Altium Limited. Additional info about Altium Limited can be read here. More information about Altium Designer 20 can be found at http://www.altium.com. Altium Designer 20 is normally installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\AD20 folder, subject to the user's decision. You can remove Altium Designer 20 by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\AD20\System\Installation\AltiumInstaller.exe. Keep in mind that you might receive a notification for administrator rights. The program's main executable file is labeled AltiumMS.exe and its approximative size is 12.88 MB (13501344 bytes).

Altium Designer 20 installs the following the executables on your PC, taking about 157.02 MB (164647720 bytes) on disk.

AltiumMS.exe (12.88 MB)
X2.EXE (40.54 MB)
7za.exe (722.50 KB)
ADElevator.exe (11.82 MB)
DxpPdfViewer.exe (5.19 MB)
ExtractDDB.exe (2.96 MB)
PCadB2AConverter.exe (112.50 KB)
CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe (9.00 KB)
AltiumInstaller.exe (17.28 MB)
NDP461-KB3102436-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe (64.55 MB)
TouchProxy.exe (997.00 KB)

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This data is about Altium Designer 20 version 20.1.14.287 alone. You can find below info on other versions of Altium Designer 20:

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After the uninstall process, the application leaves some files behind on the PC. Some of these are shown below.

Directories that were found:

C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {40578D56-4436-4186-87A8-C660E0D33D23}
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Altium\Altium Designer {40578D56-4436-4186-87A8-C660E0D33D23}

Generally, the following files are left on disk:

C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium Designer.DesignSpace
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium.Designer.InteractiveProperties.ins
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium.Designer.SystemDesign.Common.dll
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium.Designer.SystemDesign.dll
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium.Designer.SystemDesign.UI.dll
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium.Designer.SystemDesignerDrawing.ins
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium.Designer.SystemDesignerDrawing.rcs
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\Altium.Designer.SystemDesignerDrawing.tlt
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\altium-designer-preferences-32x32.png
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\altium-designer-preferences-48x48.png
C:\Program Files\Altium\AD18\System\LayerStackManager\Altium.Designer.LayerStackManager.dll
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}\CEF_debug.log
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}\DXP_Shutdown.log
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}\DXP_SplashScreen.log
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}\DXP_Startup.log
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C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}\UIThemeCache\Radio.bmp
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C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}\UIThemeCache\SideBarArrow.bmp
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C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {40578D56-4436-4186-87A8-C660E0D33D23}\DXP_Shutdown.log
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {40578D56-4436-4186-87A8-C660E0D33D23}\DXP_SplashScreen.log
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {40578D56-4436-4186-87A8-C660E0D33D23}\DXP_Startup.log
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {40578D56-4436-4186-87A8-C660E0D33D23}\mc.log
C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Altium\Altium Designer {40578D56-4436-4186-87A8-C660E0D33D23}\Mesh\MZ_1E00F5AC
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Registry keys:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Altium Designer {145950B1-5F68-4447-990C-E419BD847F6A}

A way to uninstall Altium Designer 20 using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Altium Designer 20 is a program released by the software company Altium Limited. Some computer users choose to uninstall it. This can be troublesome because uninstalling this manually requires some advanced knowledge related to Windows internal functioning. The best QUICK way to uninstall Altium Designer 20 is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:

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5. A list of the programs installed on the computer will appear

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate Altium Designer 20 or simply click the Search field and type in "Altium Designer 20". The Altium Designer 20 application will be found very quickly. After you select Altium Designer 20 in the list of apps, the following information about the application is available to you:

Star rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about Altium Designer 20, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
Technical information about the application you wish to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Altium Designer 20:

The publisher is: http://www.altium.com
The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\AD20\System\Installation\AltiumInstaller.exe

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. accept the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall Altium Designer 20.

8. After removing Altium Designer 20, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Altium Designer 20 that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing Altium Designer 20 with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your system.

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to uninstall Altium Designer 20 by Altium Limited from your computer, nor are we saying that Altium Designer 20 by Altium Limited is not a good software application. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Altium Designer 20 in case you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2020-07-22 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2020-07-22 14:30:17.800

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A way to uninstall Altium Designer 20 using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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