GNU Privacy Guard

A guide to uninstall GNU Privacy Guard from your computer

This web page is about GNU Privacy Guard for Windows. Here you can find details on how to uninstall it from your computer. The Windows version was created by The GnuPG Project. You can find out more on The GnuPG Project or check for application updates here. Click on https://gnupg.org to get more data about GNU Privacy Guard on The GnuPG Project's website. GNU Privacy Guard is commonly installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\GnuPG folder, depending on the user's choice. The full command line for uninstalling GNU Privacy Guard is C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\GnuPG\gnupg-uninstall.exe. Keep in mind that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you might be prompted for administrator rights. The program's main executable file is named kwatchgnupg.exe and its approximative size is 207.00 KB (211968 bytes).

The following executables are installed beside GNU Privacy Guard. They take about 14.93 MB (15656326 bytes) on disk.

• dbus-launch.exe (12.50 KB)
• dbus-monitor.exe (19.50 KB)
• dbus-send.exe (41.00 KB)
• dirmngr-client.exe (52.50 KB)
• dirmngr.exe (211.50 KB)
• dirmngr_ldap.exe (48.00 KB)
• gdbus.exe (36.00 KB)
• gdk-pixbuf-pixdata.exe (14.00 KB)
• gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders.exe (17.00 KB)
• gio-querymodules.exe (13.50 KB)
• glib-compile-resources.exe (35.50 KB)
• glib-compile-schemas.exe (44.00 KB)
• glib-genmarshal.exe (34.50 KB)
• gnupg-uninstall.exe (121.06 KB)
• gobject-query.exe (14.50 KB)
• gpg-agent.exe (308.00 KB)
• gpg-connect-agent.exe (170.00 KB)
• gpg-error.exe (31.00 KB)
• gpg-preset-passphrase.exe (97.50 KB)
• gpg-protect-tool.exe (187.00 KB)
• gpg2.exe (805.50 KB)
• gpg2keys_curl.exe (51.50 KB)
• gpg2keys_finger.exe (73.00 KB)
• gpg2keys_hkp.exe (57.50 KB)
• gpg2keys_kdns.exe (68.00 KB)
• gpg2keys_ldap.exe (71.00 KB)
• gpg4win-uninstall.exe (151.67 KB)
• gpgconf.exe (141.00 KB)
• gpgme-w32spawn.exe (16.50 KB)
• gpgsm.exe (405.00 KB)
• gpgtar.exe (113.00 KB)
• gpgv2.exe (419.00 KB)
• gresource.exe (17.50 KB)
• gsettings.exe (24.00 KB)
• gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe (15.00 KB)
• gspawn-win32-helper.exe (14.50 KB)
• gtk-query-immodules-2.0.exe (17.00 KB)
• gtk-update-icon-cache.exe (33.00 KB)
• kwatchgnupg.exe (15.00 KB)
• md5sum.exe (19.00 KB)
• mkportable.exe (55.00 KB)
• pango-querymodules.exe (32.66 KB)
• paperkey.exe (37.50 KB)
• pinentry-gtk-2.exe (96.00 KB)
• pinentry.exe (261.00 KB)
• pinentry-w32.exe (74.50 KB)
• qdbus.exe (118.00 KB)
• scdaemon.exe (335.50 KB)
• sha1sum.exe (23.50 KB)
• sha256sum.exe (17.50 KB)
• dbus-daemon.exe (620.50 KB)
• dirmngr.exe (608.00 KB)
• dirmngr_ldap.exe (85.00 KB)
• gpg-agent.exe (397.00 KB)
• gpg-connect-agent.exe (165.00 KB)
• gpg-preset-passphrase.exe (78.00 KB)
• gpg-wks-client.exe (205.50 KB)
• gpg.exe (1.06 MB)
• gpgconf.exe (146.50 KB)
• gpgme-w32spawn.exe (16.50 KB)
• gpgsm.exe (492.50 KB)
• gpgtar.exe (158.50 KB)
• gpgv.exe (508.50 KB)
• kbuildsycoca4.exe (254.50 KB)
• kdebugdialog.exe (116.00 KB)
• kgpgconf.exe (198.00 KB)
• kleopatra.exe (3.91 MB)
• kwatchgnupg.exe (207.00 KB)
• pinentry-basic.exe (65.00 KB)
• scdaemon.exe (387.50 KB)
• gpgsm.exe (13.00 KB)
• gpgv.exe (13.00 KB)

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This page is about GNU Privacy Guard version 2.2.8 alone. You can find here a few links to other GNU Privacy Guard versions:

• 2.2.0
• 2.2.11
• 2.4.2
• 2.1.14
• 2.1.16
• 2.1.6
• 2.2.2
• 2.1.13
• 2.2.20
• 2.1.12
• 2.1.8
• 2.2.28
• 2.1.2230
• 2.2.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.2.33
• 2.1.9
• 2.2.17
• 2.3.0
• 2.1.17
• 2.2.5
• 2.2.16
• 2.3.1
• 2.2.27
• 2.2.23
• 2.1.1
• 2.2.7
• 2.1.23
• 2.1.19
• 2.2.19
• 2.1.18
• 2.2.15
• 2.2.6
• 2.2.32
• 2.1.7
• 2.4.3
• 2.1.3
• 2.1.20
• 2.2.1851
• 2.4.0
• 2.3.3
• 2.1.10
• 2.1.15
• 2.2.4
• 2.2.9
• 2.4.5
• 2.2.10
• 2.3.8
• 2.2.25
• 2.2.26
• 2.2.13
• 2.1.21
• 2.3.7
• 2.4.1
• 2.1.11
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.21
• 2.2.24
• 2.3.2
• 2.1.0
• 2.2.12
• 2.3.6
• 2.4.4

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If you are manually uninstalling GNU Privacy Guard we suggest you to check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Registry that is not removed:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GnuPG

Open regedit.exe in order to remove the following registry values:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Gpg4win\MementoSection_SEC_gnupg_w32
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\TCP Query User{A6B15FB8-9255-4DD3-90DA-34E01F494638}C:\program files (x86)\gnupg\bin\dirmngr.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\UDP Query User{A48EEE34-C6CD-42CD-BB3D-A3543DB2AE79}C:\program files (x86)\gnupg\bin\dirmngr.exe

How to remove GNU Privacy Guard from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

GNU Privacy Guard is an application marketed by The GnuPG Project. Sometimes, users want to remove this program. Sometimes this can be efortful because deleting this by hand takes some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows programs manually. One of the best QUICK solution to remove GNU Privacy Guard is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





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

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• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good system optimizer.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the applications existing on the PC will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate GNU Privacy Guard or simply activate the Search field and type in "GNU Privacy Guard". If it is installed on your PC the GNU Privacy Guard application will be found very quickly. After you select GNU Privacy Guard in the list of applications, the following data regarding the application is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have regarding GNU Privacy Guard, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the app you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for GNU Privacy Guard:

• The web site of the application is: https://gnupg.org
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\GnuPG\gnupg-uninstall.exe

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will show up. accept the removal by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove GNU Privacy Guard.


8. After removing GNU Privacy Guard, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong GNU Privacy Guard that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling GNU Privacy Guard using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your system will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove GNU Privacy Guard by The GnuPG Project from your computer, we are not saying that GNU Privacy Guard by The GnuPG Project is not a good application for your computer. This page simply contains detailed info on how to remove GNU Privacy Guard supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.