how do i remove/uninstall chromium?

Anonymous
2015-08-08T08:31:57+00:00

I installed chromium out of curiosity but found I prefer google. chromium is not listed in my control panel  to uninstall and google is not listed either. google chrome was listed and I successfully uninstalled that.

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Anonymous
2016-07-18T22:34:47+00:00

I have remove it without any problems on Windows 10 Chromium was not showing in Control Panel or listed in Add/Remove Programs for uninstalling.

Click Start> Settings> File Explorer Options > tab View then select> Show Hidden Files, Folders or Drives.

Click File Explorer> (C: ) Drive> Users >Your Personal Named folder >AppData> Local.

You should see the Chromium folder just delete it.

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2016-08-20T16:14:47+00:00

I had the problem where uninstalling from Control Panel's Program Files (regular or safe mode), or using CCleaner as an intermediate would do nothing after clicking Uninstall. Nothing was ever running in task manager to delete (probably because I'd somehow managed to remove part of it but not all and was left with a bad state). Then I tried the Fixit program mentioned above and it couldn't find "Chromium". CCleaner found some of the Chromium registry stuff, but the program still lived in some level in Program Files.

The way I was able to finally get rid of it was like above in the C: > Users >{Personal Named folder} >AppData> Local (I'm also on Windows 10). But with a catch; I'd already previously deleted the "Chromium" folder, but it was either there or somewhere near that I also found two folders with GUIDs for folder names, also installed on the same date that something gave me Chromium. I deleted those two folders and then was able to finally uninstall Chromium (or more accurately, went to uninstall from Program Files and it finally responded to click, saying that the program was no longer there).

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-05-27T19:21:47+00:00

    I have taken the suggestions about removing Chromium malware from my computer. But when I try to delete the Chromium folder I get the message that I cannot complete the operation because Chromium is opened in another folder. All of my browsers are also closed at the time and no other folders other than my file explorer is opened.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-01-24T00:23:37+00:00

    so here is the solution. all those malware removal software will require you to purchase the software if you want to use them. so try this and use the paying  step for the last resort.

    1. ctrl+alt+del to get to task manager 
    2. click on process tab than scroll to find  any program that says chromium on description and right click one of them to open the file location
    3. after that right click chromium and end them all one by one

    now lets move to the folder i.e. file location

    1. if you see any file with explorer.exe or chromium folder with the chromium logo drag it to recyclebin ( because it will not allow you to delete with sift+delete)
    2. and after that click on the folder local and anything you think is associated with chromium drag it to the recyclebin (again shift+delete will not work).
    3. the whole process need to be in order otherwise it will always prompt with the "file is open" so do not forget to end the chromium from the task manager first by right clicking on it.

    good luck!!

    also here is a video link by @killermaster on youtube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5DWKXaAjA

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