How to uninstall Eclipse

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I want to uninstall Eclipse version Mars 2, but it doesn't appear in the "Programs and Features" area of the Windows Control Panel. The installer has installed start menu shortcuts and other artifacts, so it's not just a matter of deleting the installation folder.

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Right click on eclipse icon and click on open file location then delete the eclipse folder from drive Save backup of your eclipse workspace if you want   Also delete eclipse icon  Thats it

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There is no automated uninstaller    You have to remove Eclipse manually  At least Eclipse does not write anything in the system registry  so deleting some directories and files is enough   Note  I use Unix style paths in this answer but the locations should be the same on Windows or Unix systems  so   refers to the user home directory even on Windows   Why is there no uninstaller   According to this discussion about uninstalling Eclipse  the reasoning for not providing an uninstaller is that the Eclipse installer is supposed to just automate a few tasks that in the past had to be done manually  like downloading and extracting Eclipse and adding shortcuts   so they also can be undone manually  There is no entry in  Programs and Features  because the installer does not register anything in the system registry   How to quickly uninstall Eclipse  Just delete the Eclipse directory and any desktop and start menu shortcuts and be done with it  if you don t mind a few leftover files   In my opinion this is generally enough and I would stop here  because multiple Eclipse installations can share some files and you don t accidentally want to delete those shared files  You also keep all your projects   How to completely uninstall Eclipse  If you really want to remove Eclipse without leaving any traces  you have to manually delete   all desktop and start menu shortcuts the installation directory  e g    eclipse photon   the p2 bundle pool  which is often shared with other eclipse installations    The installer has a  Bundle Pools  menu entry which lists the locations of all bundle pools  If you have other Eclipse installations on your system you can use the  Cleanup Agent  to clean up unused bundles  If you don t have any other Eclipse installations you can delete the whole bundle pool directory instead  by default   p2     If you want to completely remove the Eclipse installer too  delete the installer s executable and the    eclipse  directory   Depending on what kind of work you did with Eclipse  there can be more directories that you may want to delete  If you used Maven  then    m2  contains the Maven cache and settings  shared with Maven CLI and other IDEs   If you develop Eclipse plugins  then there might be JUnit workspaces from test runs  next to you Eclipse workspace  Likewise other build tools and development environments used in Eclipse could have created similar directories   How to delete all projects  If you want to delete your projects and workspace metadata  you have to delete your workspace s   The default workspace location is     workspace     You can also search for the  metadata directory to get all Eclipse workspaces on your machine   If you are working with Git projects  these are generally not saved in the workspace but in the   git  directory

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The steps are very simple and it ll take just few mins  1 Go to your  C drive and in that go to the  USER  section  2 Under  USER  section go to your  name e g- user1   and then find  quot  eclipse quot  folder and delete that folder 3 Along with that folder also delete  quot eclipse quot  folder and you can find that you re work has been done completely

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Look for an installation subdirectory  likely named eclipse  Under that  subdirectory  if you see files like eclipse ini  icon xpm and  subdirectories like plugins and dropins  remove the subdirectory parent   the one named eclipse    That will remove your installation except for anything you ve set up  yourself  like workspaces  projects  etc     Hope this helps

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