Windscribe

A way to uninstall Windscribe from your system

You can find below details on how to uninstall Windscribe for Windows. The Windows release was created by Windscribe Limited. More information about Windscribe Limited can be read here. Please open http://www.windscribe.com/ if you want to read more on Windscribe on Windscribe Limited's website. The application is usually installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe folder. Take into account that this path can vary depending on the user's preference. You can uninstall Windscribe by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\uninstall.exe. Note that you might be prompted for admin rights. WindscribeLauncher.exe is the programs's main file and it takes close to 322.88 KB (330624 bytes) on disk.

The executable files below are part of Windscribe. They take about 32.63 MB (34210192 bytes) on disk.

• ChangeIcs.exe (163.38 KB)
• subinacl.exe (289.88 KB)
• tstunnel.exe (231.38 KB)
• uninstall.exe (327.88 KB)
• windscribe-cli.exe (2.52 MB)
• Windscribe.exe (5.37 MB)
• WindscribeEngine.exe (4.51 MB)
• WindscribeInstallHelper.exe (337.88 KB)
• WindscribeLauncher.exe (322.88 KB)
• windscribeopenvpn_2_5_4.exe (736.38 KB)
• WindscribeService.exe (1.26 MB)
• windscribewireguard.exe (2.52 MB)
• wstunnel.exe (13.89 MB)
• tapinstall.exe (97.99 KB)

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This web page is about Windscribe version 2.311 alone. You can find below a few links to other Windscribe versions:

• 2.9.9
• 1.8028
• 2.4.6
• 2.316
• 2.8.6
• 1.8033
• 2.6.14
• 2.5.14
• 2.6.5
• 2.10.5
• 2.9.2
• 1.8320
• 2.4.10
• 1.8317
• 2.210
• 1.838
• 2.7.3
• 2.7.4
• 2.042
• 1.8026
• 2.4.5
• 2.21
• 2.014
• 1.8130
• 1.8113
• 1.8217
• 1.8024
• 2.019
• 1.826
• 2.7.11
• 2.10.6
• 2.310
• 2.24
• 2.5.8
• 2.8.5
• 2.4.8
• 2.032
• 2.039
• 2.5.12
• 1.8032
• 2.8.1
• 2.13
• 2.7.5
• 2.7.12
• 2.6.6
• 2.42
• 2.315
• 2.5.17
• 2.038
• 2.7.14
• 2.8.2
• 1.8141
• 2.4.11
• 2.41
• 2.5.1
• 1.8030
• 1.8110
• 1.8139
• 2.5.18
• 2.7.9
• 2.43
• 1.83.1.20
• 2.022
• 2.7.10
• 2.7.6
• 2.33
• 2.9.7
• 1.8144
• 2.5.10
• 2.9.6
• 2.5.6
• 2.10.7
• 2.25
• 2.6.12
• 2.5.7
• 2.5.11
• 1.8143
• 2.10.8
• 1.8142
• 1.8318
• 1.8031
• 2.10.2
• 2.9.4

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Some files and registry entries are usually left behind when you uninstall Windscribe.

Folders left behind when you uninstall Windscribe:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe

The files below are left behind on your disk by Windscribe when you uninstall it:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\API-MS-Win-core-xstate-l2-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\cares.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\ChangeIcs.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\concrt140.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\imageformats\qgif.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\imageformats\qico.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\imageformats\qjpeg.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\imageformats\qsvg.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\libcrypto-1_1.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\libcurl.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\libEGL.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\libGLESV2.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\libssl-1_1.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\msvcp140.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\open_source_licenses.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\platforms\qwindows.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Qt5Core.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Qt5Gui.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Qt5Network.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Qt5Svg.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Qt5Widgets.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\splittunnel\windscribesplittunnel.cat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\splittunnel\windscribesplittunnel.inf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\splittunnel\windscribesplittunnel.sys
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\subinacl.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\tap\OemVista.inf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\tap\tapinstall.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\tap\tapwindscribe0901.cat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\tap\tapwindscribe0901.sys
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\tstunnel.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\ucrtbase.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\uninstall.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\vccorlib140.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\vcruntime140.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\wgsupport.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Windscribe.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\windscribe-cli.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\WindscribeEngine.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\WindscribeInstallHelper.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\WindscribeLauncher.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\windscribeopenvpn_2_5_4.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\WindscribeService.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\windscribeservice.log
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\windscribeservice_prev.log
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\windscribewireguard.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\wintun\tapinstall.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\wintun\windtun420.cat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\wintun\windtun420.inf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\wintun\windtun420.sys
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\wstunnel.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\zlib1.dll
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\AppIconCache\250\{7C5A40EF-A0FB-4BFC-874A-C0F2E0B9FA8E}_Windscribe_WindscribeLauncher_exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\gui_2021-08-13_00-49-06.dmp
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\log_engine.txt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\log_gui.txt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\ping_log.txt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\ping_log_custom_configs.txt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\prev_log_engine.txt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\prev_log_gui.txt

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

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windscribe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{fa690e90-ddb0-4f0c-b3f1-136c084e5fc7}_is1

Use regedit.exe to remove the following additional registry values from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Windscribe.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Windscribe.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\WindscribeLauncher.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\WindscribeLauncher.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\installer.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Windscribe\Windscribe2\installer.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\Programs\Windscribe.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\Programs\Windscribe.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\bam\State\UserSettings\S-1-5-21-10322979-2660472897-2819865833-1001\\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\Windscribe.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\tapwindscribe0901\DisplayName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\windtun420\Description

A way to remove Windscribe from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Windscribe is a program offered by the software company Windscribe Limited. Some people try to remove this program. This can be troublesome because performing this manually takes some advanced knowledge regarding PCs. The best EASY practice to remove Windscribe 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, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful system utility.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


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

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate Windscribe or simply activate the Search feature and type in "Windscribe". If it exists on your system the Windscribe application will be found automatically. Notice that after you click Windscribe in the list of apps, some data regarding the application is made available to you:

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

For instance you can see that for Windscribe:

• The web site of the program is: http://www.windscribe.com/
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windscribe\uninstall.exe

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will appear. accept the removal by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically uninstall Windscribe.


8. After removing Windscribe, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of Windscribe which have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing Windscribe with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your disk.

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

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to uninstall Windscribe by Windscribe Limited from your PC, nor are we saying that Windscribe by Windscribe Limited is not a good application. This text simply contains detailed info on how to uninstall Windscribe 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.