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authorBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000
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+Uninstalling Vim on Dos and MS-Windows.
+
+There are three ways to remove Vim:
+
+1. With the GUI uninstaller.
+ This is only available when Vim was installed with the self-installing
+ executable. This has a minimal number of questions. It can delete
+ everything that was installed. This also unregisters the VisVim.dll
+
+2. With uninstal.exe.
+ This removes most installed items, but does not delete the files you
+ unpacked.
+
+3. By hand.
+ This is a bit more work, but you can decide exactly what you want to
+ remove. For uninstalling the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry you still
+ have to use uninstal.exe.
+
+It's recommended to use the method that matches with how you installed Vim.
+Thus if you installed Vim by hand, deleted it by hand.
+
+The first two methods should be available from the Add/Remove software window
+and the Vim entry in the Start menu. If these have been removed already, find
+"uninstall-gui.exe" or "uninstal.exe" in the Vim directory.
+ Running these programs should be self-explanatory. Carefully read the
+messages to avoid deleting something you want to keep.
+
+Here are guidelines for removing Vim by hand:
+
+1. Remove the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry, if it exists. This will only
+ be on MS-Windows 95/98/NT. This is done by running the uninstal.exe
+ program. It removes the registry entries for the "Edit with Vim" popup
+ menu entry. You only need to run uninstal.exe when you have installed the
+ menu entry. You can also run uninstal.exe from the Control panel with the
+ Add/Remove programs application.
+ Note that uninstal.exe offers you to uninstal other items. You can skip
+ this.
+
+2. Only if you have used the OLE version of gvim: Remove the registration of
+ this program by running "gvim -unregister" in a console window.
+
+3. Delete the executables. If you copied the executables to another location,
+ you will have to delete them from where you copied them to. If you don't
+ remember where they are, look in the directories from the $PATH environment
+ variable.
+ If you created .bat files when installing Vim, also search for vim.bat,
+ gvim.bat, etc.
+
+4. If you completely want to delete vim, and are not going to install another
+ version, you can delete the vimrc files that you created. These are
+ normally located in a directory like "C:\vim". If the $VIM environment
+ variable is set, it will tell the name of the directory. Normally you can
+ delete everything in this directory. Warning: You might have put some
+ files there that you would like to save. If you did remove it all, you can
+ skip the next step.
+
+5. Delete the distributed files. If you followed the directions, these will
+ be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim54". If the $VIM environment
+ variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim54. Delete the "vim54"
+ directory and all that is in it. Warning: If you changed any of the
+ distributed files, or added some of your own files, you might want to save
+ these first. But normally you would not have changed or added files here.
+
+6. Remove setting the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME environment variable and adjust
+ $PATH. $VIM only needs to be removed if you are not going to install
+ another version of Vim. $VIMRUNTIME is mostly not set. Check if $PATH
+ contains the path of the vim directory. Note that $PATH may be set in
+ several places, you will have to find the right one, and only delete the
+ Vim path from it. You can most likely find the lines that set $PATH, $VIM
+ and/or $VIMRUNTIME in C:\autoexec.bat. Under Windows NT you might need to
+ use the "System Properties" editor to change the environment variables, if
+ they are not in the C:\autoexec.bat file. You can start it by selecting
+ Start/Settings/Control Panel and then "System".
+
+7. If you added a Vim entry in the start menu, delete it.
+
+8. If you created icons for Vim on the desktop, delete them.
+
+Vim does not use .ini files. The above should remove all Vim files, except
+the ones that you moved elsewhere yourself.