Chatter Desktop

A guide to uninstall Chatter Desktop from your PC

This page is about Chatter Desktop for Windows. Below you can find details on how to uninstall it from your PC. The Windows release was created by Salesforce.com. More information on Salesforce.com can be found here. The application is often placed in the C: directory. Take into account that this path can vary being determined by the user's decision. The full command line for removing Chatter Desktop is msiexec /qb /x {7CF57631-7399-6EAB-37CE-B7A6716FD4FC}. Keep in mind that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you might get a notification for admin rights. Chatter Desktop.exe is the programs's main file and it takes circa 139.00 KB (142336 bytes) on disk.

Chatter Desktop is comprised of the following executables which take 139.00 KB (142336 bytes) on disk:

• Chatter Desktop.exe (139.00 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 3.2.1 of Chatter Desktop. You can find here a few links to other Chatter Desktop releases:

• 2.5.0
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.4

If you are manually uninstalling Chatter Desktop we suggest you to verify if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Folders found on disk after you uninstall Chatter Desktop from your PC:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop

Files remaining:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\Chatter Desktop.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\desktop.swf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\desktop-app.xml
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\eula.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\app_logo.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter128.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter128_badge_1.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter128_badge_2.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter128_badge_3.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter16.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter16_highlight.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter32.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter32_badge_1.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter32_badge_2.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter32_badge_3.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter48.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter48_badge_1.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter48_badge_2.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\icons\chatter48_badge_3.png
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\META-INF\AIR\application.xml
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\META-INF\AIR\hash
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\META-INF\signatures.xml
• C:\Program Files (x86)\salesforce.com\Chatter Desktop\mimetype
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu\Chatter Desktop.lnk

Registry that is not cleaned:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\13675FC79937BAE673EC7B6A17F64DCF
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\sfdc-desktop.0E7F0072024938CDBA99B20C38B5F315254C2A5B.1

Registry values that are not removed from your PC:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\13675FC79937BAE673EC7B6A17F64DCF\ProductName

A way to remove Chatter Desktop from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Chatter Desktop is an application marketed by the software company Salesforce.com. Frequently, users choose to remove it. Sometimes this can be easier said than done because removing this manually requires some skill regarding removing Windows applications by hand. The best EASY practice to remove Chatter Desktop is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and all around utility to optimize your Windows PC.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the program by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with the program's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful package of utilities.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button


5. A list of the applications existing on your computer will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find Chatter Desktop or simply click the Search field and type in "Chatter Desktop". If it is installed on your PC the Chatter Desktop application will be found very quickly. Notice that when you click Chatter Desktop in the list of applications, the following information regarding the application is available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have regarding Chatter Desktop, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the program you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove Chatter Desktop.


8. After removing Chatter Desktop, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items of Chatter Desktop which have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing Chatter Desktop with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove Chatter Desktop by Salesforce.com from your PC, we are not saying that Chatter Desktop by Salesforce.com is not a good application for your PC. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove Chatter Desktop supposing you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.