How to uninstall Ditto on Windows

Ditto keeps your entire clipboard history in a database in your profile; uninstalling the app never touches it. Back it up first if you want to keep that history, or delete it yourself if you don't. This guide covers Ditto installed machine-wide from the Ditto.Ditto winget package.

Quit Ditto first

Right-click the Ditto tray icon and exit it, then check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for Ditto.exe before you uninstall.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

Go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Ditto, and choose Uninstall, or run:

winget uninstall --id Ditto.Ditto

Back up before you remove data

Copy %APPDATA%\Ditto if you want to keep your clipboard history.

Where the data lives

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process Ditto -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id Ditto.Ditto
Test-Path "$env:ProgramFiles\Ditto"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Ditto"

• No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown.
• A completed winget list query with no match means the package record is gone; a matching row means the uninstall did not finish.
• The first Test-Path returning False means the program folder is gone; True means files remain there.
• Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Ditto" returning True means your clipboard history and settings are still there, which is expected unless you removed them yourself.

If you installed it with winget

winget uninstall runs the same Inno Setup uninstaller Settings › Apps uses and removes the same program files, its Start Menu shortcut and its login item; it does not touch %APPDATA%\Ditto on its own.

What Mole lists

For Ditto installed machine-wide from winget:

• The program folder, the Start Menu shortcut and the login-item Run value are selected by default.
• %APPDATA%\Ditto, where your clipboard history lives, and HKCU\SOFTWARE\Ditto are listed but not selected.
• Two firewall rules Ditto's installer added are only reported, never removed, since Mole does not manage firewall rules.

What this test covered

Tested with Ditto 3.25.113.0 installed through winget, machine-wide scope. Not verified: syncing clipboard history between machines, or a paged clipboard history larger than the test run's.