Ghostscript

How to uninstall Ghostscript from your PC

Ghostscript is a software application. This page holds details on how to remove it from your PC. The Windows version was developed by GNU. Further information on GNU can be seen here. Please open http://www.ghostscript.com/ if you want to read more on Ghostscript on GNU's page. Usually the Ghostscript application is installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gszedo directory, depending on the user's option during setup. The complete uninstall command line for Ghostscript is C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gszedo\Uninstall.exe. The program's main executable file occupies 136.00 KB (139264 bytes) on disk and is named gswin32.exe.

Ghostscript contains of the executables below. They occupy 319.20 KB (326858 bytes) on disk.

• Uninstall.exe (71.20 KB)
• gswin32.exe (136.00 KB)
• gswin32c.exe (112.00 KB)

 For other Ghostscript versions please click below:

• 8.14

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

The files below were left behind on your disk by Ghostscript when you uninstall it:

• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\Recent\license-ghostscript.rtf.LNK
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\ghostscript.ini.lnk
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\ghostscript.lnk
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\license-ghostscript.rtf.lnk

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the data below:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GPL Ghostscript
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\gszedo

Registry values that are not removed from your computer:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-1893617252-2863932215-1354174514-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume5\software\PrintFab1-(www.Patoghu.com)\PrintFab1-(www.Patoghu.com)\Setup\ghostscript\Setup Ghostscript.exe

A way to uninstall Ghostscript from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Ghostscript is a program offered by GNU. Some people want to erase this program. Sometimes this can be troublesome because removing this manually takes some skill related to PCs. One of the best SIMPLE solution to erase Ghostscript is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very efficient uninstaller and all around utility to optimize your Windows computer.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the program by pressing the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire the program's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful system utility.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the programs existing on your PC will appear

6. Navigate the list of programs until you find Ghostscript or simply click the Search field and type in "Ghostscript". If it exists on your system the Ghostscript program will be found automatically. Notice that when you click Ghostscript in the list of apps, the following data about the program is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). This explains the opinion other users have about Ghostscript, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the app you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Ghostscript:

• The publisher is: http://www.ghostscript.com/
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gszedo\Uninstall.exe

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. Confirm the removal by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall Ghostscript.


8. After uninstalling Ghostscript, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Ghostscript that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing Ghostscript with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry items, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

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

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Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to uninstall Ghostscript by GNU from your PC, nor are we saying that Ghostscript by GNU is not a good application. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Ghostscript supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.