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Uninstalling IDEasy from "Programs & features"/"Apps" screen does not work on windows #2473
Currently, when we use the "Uninstall" option for IDEasy in the windows settings, the process reports back as to the uninstallation being succesful, but IDEasy is not actually uninstalled.
Note: It does seem like the IDEasy PATH variables get removed as we cannot use the ide command afterwards, but generally, the rest of the installation persists on the system.
Reproduce
Go to windows settings or control center
Go to either "Programs and features" (Control Center) or "Apps" (Windows settings)
Try uninstalling all of the IDEasy entries
You will notice when checking THE "_ide" and projects folder, that actually nothing happened and IDeasy is still installed on your system. However, most likely you won't be able to use the ide command in the console anymore. So the uninstallation is basically only partial.
Expected behavior
Uninstalling IDEasy via these options should launch either the ide uninstall command somehow or trigger an uninstall flow using the MSI installer. However, further research is needed here, how to do this in detail.
IDEasy status
IDE_ROOT is set to C:\Users\lfaber\projects
You are not inside an IDE project: C:\Users\lfaber\projects
Your version of IDEasy is 2026.09.001.
You are using the latest stable version of IDEasy and no update is available.
Your operating system is windows(10.0)@x64 [Windows 11@amd64]
You are online.
Found bash executable at: C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe
Found git executable at: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe
Successfully completed ide (status)
Activity
devonfw#2473: fix Windows MSI uninstall
devonfw#2473: added CHANGELOG.adoc entry