How to uninstall Atom Windows (Step-by-step guide with screenshots)

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Developed byGitHub,Atomis regarded as one of the best visual text editors forcross-platformapps development.

Besides being free, Atom is especially adaptive and super easy to customize amongst a whole load of other benefits. But if there’s one bone to pick with Atom, it’s the difficult uninstallation process in Windows.

That’s because when you go to the uninstall/removeprogramsoption in control panel/settings, the Atom uninstall option doesn’t work like otheruninstallersand will tend to leave someprogramfolders intact.

This means the application is only partially uninstalled. Yet you need to completely get rid of such folders to discard Atom.

Now, this article covers how to successfully uninstall Atom in windows including the said folders. So, without further ado, let’s see how to uninstall Atom Windows.

Steps to remove Atom Windows

In Windows 7

The first step is to remove Atom from the control panel .

Steps:

Locate theprogramstab and click uninstall aprogram.
Choose Atom then uninstall.

Atom will be silently removed from yourPC.

The second stage involves deleting all the Atom-relatedfoldersto ensure that none of the App’s configurations remain.

Here are the concerned folders:

Steps:

Using the previous steps, find your way to C:UsersUserNameAppDataRoaming.
Once there, find the atom folder and erase it.

Please note that in some instances, the Appdata folder is not available inWindows 7and you have to unhide first.

Here is how:

In Windows 8/8.1

You still have to delete the .atom folder as discussed here below.

How To unhide theAppData folder in Windows 8/8.1:

In Windows 10

That should do away with the basicinstallation.

Finally do away with the setup files by deleting the .atom folder.

Steps:

How To unhide theAppData folder inWindows 10:

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How to uninstall Atom Windows (Step-by-step guide with screenshots)

Steps to remove Atom Windows

In Windows 7

In Windows 8/8.1

In Windows 10