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authorBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2019-09-27 13:08:36 +0200
committerBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2019-09-27 13:08:36 +0200
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-Uninstalling Vim on MS-Windows.
-
-There are three ways to remove Vim:
-
-1. With the GUI uninstaller.
- This is only available when Vim was installed with the self-installing
- executable. This has a minimal number of questions. It can delete
- everything that was installed. This also unregisters the VisVim.dll.
-
-2. With uninstal.exe.
- This removes most installed items, but does not delete the files you
- unpacked.
-
-3. By hand.
- This is a bit more work, but you can decide exactly what you want to
- remove. For uninstalling the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry you still
- have to use uninstal.exe.
-
-It's recommended to use the method that matches with how you installed Vim.
-Thus if you installed Vim by hand, delete it by hand.
-
-The first two methods should be available from the Add/Remove software window
-and the Vim entry in the Start menu. If these have been removed already, find
-"uninstall-gui.exe" or "uninstal.exe" in the Vim directory.
- Running these programs should be self-explanatory. Carefully read the
-messages to avoid deleting something you want to keep.
-
-Here are guidelines for removing Vim by hand:
-
-1. Remove the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry, if it exists. This is done by
- running the uninstal.exe program. It removes the registry entries for the
- "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry. You only need to run uninstal.exe when
- you have installed the menu entry. You can also run uninstal.exe from the
- Control panel with the Add/Remove programs application.
- Note that uninstal.exe offers you the option to uninstal other items. You
- can skip this.
-
-2. Only if you have used the OLE version of gvim: Remove the registration of
- this program by running "gvim -unregister" in a console window.
-
-3. Delete the executables. If you copied the executables to another location,
- you will have to delete them from where you copied them to. If you don't
- remember where they are, look in the directories from the $PATH environment
- variable.
- If you created .bat files when installing Vim, also search for vim.bat,
- gvim.bat, etc.
-
-4. If you want to completely delete vim, and are not going to install another
- version, you can delete the vimrc files that you created. These are
- normally located in a directory like "C:\vim". If the $VIM environment
- variable is set, it will tell the name of the directory. Normally you can
- delete everything in this directory. Warning: You might have put some
- files there that you would like to save. If you did remove it all, you can
- skip the next step.
-
-5. Delete the distributed files. If you followed the directions, these will
- be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim81". If the $VIM environment
- variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim81. Delete the "vim81"
- directory and all that is in it. Warning: If you changed any of the
- distributed files, or added some of your own files, you might want to save
- these first. But normally you would not have changed or added files here.
-
-6. Remove setting the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME environment variable and adjust
- $PATH. $VIM only needs to be removed if you are not going to install
- another version of Vim. $VIMRUNTIME is mostly not set. Check if $PATH
- contains the path of the vim directory. Note that $PATH may be set in
- several places, you will have to find the right one, and only delete the
- Vim path from it. You might need to use the "System Properties" editor to
- change the environment variables. You can start it by selecting
- Start/Settings/Control Panel and then "System".
-
-7. If you added a Vim entry in the start menu, delete it.
-
-8. If you created icons for Vim on the desktop, delete them.
-
-Vim does not use .ini files. The above should remove all Vim files, except
-the ones that you moved elsewhere yourself.