How to uninstall draw.io on Windows

Check where your diagrams are actually saved before removing draw.io Desktop. draw.io can save .drawio files to a folder on this PC or to a connected account such as Google Drive, OneDrive, GitHub or GitLab, so there is no single default location to back up; open File › Recent in draw.io and check each diagram you care about. This guide covers draw.io installed per-machine from the JGraph.Draw winget package.

Quit draw.io first

Save your diagrams and quit draw.io, then check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for any draw.io.exe still listed before you uninstall.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

Go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find draw.io, and choose Uninstall, or run:

winget uninstall --id JGraph.Draw

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`%APPDATA%\draw.io`	App-level settings and connected-account state, not your diagrams	Safe to remove
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\draw.io-updater`	Downloaded update installers	Safe to remove

A diagram saved to a device folder is an ordinary file wherever you put it; one saved to a connected cloud account lives there, not inside draw.io, so removing the app never touches it either way.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process "draw.io" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id JGraph.Draw
Test-Path "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\draw.io"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\draw.io"

No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown. A listed process means a window is still open.
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\draw.io" returning True means app-level settings are still there, which is expected unless you removed them yourself.

If you installed it with winget

winget uninstall runs the same NSIS uninstaller Settings › Apps uses and removes the same program files; it does not touch %APPDATA%\draw.io on its own.

Connected cloud accounts

Removing draw.io does not disconnect or sign you out of a Google Drive, OneDrive, GitHub or GitLab account you connected to it; those stay managed on that service's own side, independent of anything on this PC.

What Mole lists

For draw.io installed per-machine from winget:

The program folder is selected by default; in this test the uninstaller had already removed it before Mole's own step ran.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\draw.io-updater is selected by default.
%APPDATA%\draw.io is listed but not selected.
File type registrations for .drawio, .mermaid and .vsdx are left alone, since other apps that open those files share them.

What this test covered

Tested with draw.io 31.5.2 installed through winget, machine scope, using its NSIS uninstaller (Uninstall draw.io.exe /allusers /S). Every listed row was ticked and removed in this test. Not verified: a connected cloud account, or the 31.5.3 update winget offered.