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
    2017-07-03T21:24:11+00:00

    How to do ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-07-06T15:57:23+00:00

    (Note: I'm on windows 10, probably above what the virus was made for, which might explain why it can show up in start up)

    1. Open task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del works)
    2. Click More details. (If this is already done, move onto the next step)
    3. Go to the top and click "Startup"
    4. You should be able to see "Chromium".
    5. Click on it, and then click "Disable" at the bottom.

    If you don't see it, it could probably be gone, or it's trying to do other things. I don't know because I disabled it on startup before it was ever able to even do anything. Hope this helped, even in the slightest.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-07-13T15:30:11+00:00

    Chromium seems to have either uninstalled itself, or, since Best Buy's Geek Squad somehow "lost" my old generic(Lenovo) computer, but on the good flipside they replaced it with a machine much better than that; I now have an [hp] Pavilionwith Windows 10, which I can finally use now that I have a machine that meets or exceeds the system requirements.  I haven't yet tried running Chrome or Chromium on my new "Penelope" yet, but i'll try to get back to  ya+report the results.

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