As we advance in this technological era, we get different and new programs in Windows 10, although they are increasingly complex, execution becomes somewhat difficult, this may be because they are not configured correctly and their components present difficulties and the applications present different errors, in the case of these, which are natively in Windows 10, work based on services, libraries and other factors that are from external developers necessary for their correct operation, but if the services fail the application as well.
For this case, the utility that MinGW has is presented; which is focused on solving these failures of the applications that Windows 10 has within its systematic environment, this development is free software and completely compatible for this task with this operating system. The fact is that if at any time we must do without this good service we must do so effectively; And this takes some essential steps to get rid of it completely.
What are the parts that you must take into account to uninstall MinGW?
There are factors that you must know to carry out the uninstallation successfully, because it is not easy to achieve and it has a route to do it; Knowing its always active parts is essential to identify them, to start the uninstallation there in a specific order, which if not done as it is will give an unwanted result.
First you should know that this is a minimalist program with different execution tools, and that it is not to emulate the Microsoft Windows system and run it, it means that MinGW is there to avoid conflicts arising from the execution of programs and applications, it behaves autonomously, that is, it does not need to Third-party software to function, such as programs that depend on a C-Runtime opencl.DLL to run, is sometimes the basis of the problem.
The command line installer
In this case it is named after G ++ whose function is to be a command line compiler, which links C ++ programs, it generates an executable file, which is needed to execute C ++ commands, for this a terminal window or console to do it, that is, this installer compiles and organizes the command lines so that they run correctly and avoid failures, this is one of those that are always running and we must identify it for its correct uninstallation.
A GNU Compiler Collection port
The purpose is not to generate an emulation of the programs, so that they run, but rather manage to offer a minimal environment, where you can use the GNU compiler; and other basic Windows tools, this gives us a reference that it is specifically designed for use in this operating system, from here executable files such as .exe and .dll can be compiled.
This being an alternative to Microsoft Visual C ++, in this case there is a standard library, although basic, it is used to interact with this system, but without the restrictions imposed by the licenses; this is also another factor that we cannot ignore when uninstalling.
GUI configuration tool (mingw-get-setup)
In this case, the initial configuration tool, which comes with the compiler, is used to determine how it will work and in which areas it will work inside of the Microsoft Windows operating system. This part is the installable and executable, You must also take this part into account for its uninstallation.
What steps should you follow to carry out the complete uninstallation of MinGW?
The uninstallation can be carried out, taking into account the above, you must remember that to carry out this type of uninstallation everything must be done to the letter, and thus avoid this process from being left half, because this particular program does not work properly. traditional as we are used to. Let us begin:
- From the start menu we look for “MinGW Installation Manager”.
- The pop-up screen will open where we will locate the services that run in real time.
- These are (mingw32-mingw-get-bin, mingw32-mingw-get-gui and mingw32-mingw-get-lic) the three are followed one by another respectively.
- The uninstallation of these is carried out by secondary clicking on each one and marking the option “mark for removal”.
- Then, the boxes of the components are marked, we look at the top right in “Installation” and here we mark “Apply Changes”.
- A new window is displayed and again we click “Apply” and then Close.
- Then, you look for the MinGW folder in Windows Explorer and delete it.
- Now we remove the shortcut.
How can you verify that the application was uninstalled correctly?
Although the above is correct for this uninstall, we must ensure that there is no trace of MinGW, because if this is not verified later there will be more difficulties. For this we must follow these steps.
- We check in the path Control Panel> System and security> system.
- In system we look on the left for “Advanced system configuration” and in the pop-up window you enter “Environment variables”.
- In the next window in the section “System variables” we are going to look for “Path” which is a line.
- From here we give it edit and verify that there is no MinGW path and thus we will know that it was effectively uninstalled.
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