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Uninstalling literally everything in my laptop including IDEs and tools. It summed up to 94 programs.

I then wrote a simple C# console app that automates the process.

It is running 28/94 currently.

I love being a programmer.

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  • 9
    Why didn't you hit refresh Windows it would have not only removed all the softwares but also would have reinstalled your windows?
  • 7
    @drekhi12

    Because it's too mainstream
  • 2
    @drekhi12
    I need to get my files first.
    I can't access my files for some reason, so I am doing many stuffs.

    I will format later.
  • 4
    I'm interested to know how you did it. Ths is something new for me, can you explain a little bit?
    I can see that you were using visual studio. So, you are going to run MsBuild directly? What about debugging? Breakpoints?
  • 3
    Or as the forks in my office say, " that has been automated using an AI based solution"
  • 1
    @babanomania Oh, yeah! I used a lot of highly professional algorithms to do this.
  • 3
    You mean your program manually uninstalled them like deleting program files, program data and some edits in the registry?
  • 2
    @Jifuna @Raamakrishnan I list all the program paths, and the script searches for uninstallers, run them, I go through the uninstall process, when the uninstaller closes, wait for additional 10 seconds, then move on.
    I will release if I am ready, I had help from other people who said that this code was "proprietary".
  • 4
    @irene I agree that can happen that's why I don't let the windows to get update. (Also most of the time I'm on Linux)
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