How to uninstall cloudflared on Windows

Keep tunnel configuration and connection details before uninstalling cloudflared. A configured Windows service needs separate attention.

Quit the app

Close cloudflared and any work it is running, then use Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) to check for its remaining processes.

Use its uninstaller

Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find cloudflared and choose Uninstall. Use the vendor uninstaller rather than deleting its program folder.

winget uninstall --id Cloudflare.cloudflared --exact

For this installation, winget invokes the registered removal method. It is not a separate cleanup of user data. Windows may ask for administrator approval.

Check the result

winget list --id Cloudflare.cloudflared --exact

Read winget's result as well as its exit status: an explicit no-installed-package result concerns only this package, while a source, access or query error leaves the answer unknown. The commands do not delete anything.

What Mole lists

The recorded review contained no extra rows. This does not prove that no data exists elsewhere.

The MSI removed the program with no additional Mole rows. The PATH entry for %ProgramFiles(x86)%\cloudflared remained. No tunnel service had been installed in this test, so it does not verify removal of a configured connector.

What this test covered

Recorded on 2026-10-20: cloudflared, version 2026.10.1, machine-wide, MSI, winget package Cloudflare.cloudflared. The evidence comes from an ARM64 Windows test environment and a development build of Mole. It does not certify the current downloadable package or removal of real signed-in accounts, synchronized data or production projects.

Vendor documentation. The paths and removal results above are observations from the Windows test unless explicitly attributed to the vendor.