Completely manual uninstall

[sp823]

Are there instructions somewhere for how to do a completely manual uninstall? The installer has been blacklisted by my company so I can't run it to uninstall or interact with that file at all and EP is currently non-functional and now preventing explorer from loading. The only workaround I have right now is to run explorer from task manager half a dozen times until EP gives up and lets the vanilla explorer load, which is annoying to have to do every time the machine is started. I don't care so much about removing the files as much as just preventing it from loading on startup. Not sure if that is triggered through registry entries I could remove or some other way.

[pyrates999]

how to disable explorer patcher:

1. rename C:\Windows\dxgi.dll to C:\Windows\dxgi.dll.old
2. open up task manager
3. kill explorer.exe
4. run explorer.exe

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See the release notes here for the powershell script you can run that excludes all the directories necessary in windows defender: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases

The powershell script you must run with elevated privileges (right click on powershell and select run as administrator).

Future updates to EP won't be flagged then.

You can also set windows defender to exclude the directory that you manually download EP to so you can install it without windows defender blocking it.

if you get the error: 0x800106ba, it means Windows Defender is not active. You may have another antivirus program active, which means you need to add those files and directories to be excluded in your antivirus program.

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Once you've done the above, then reinstall the latest version. Then you can uninstall it.

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If you don't have admin privileges now, you must talk to your IT department about them removing it for you by following the above instructions.