How to uninstall Everything on Windows

Everything ships two very different ways: a normal installer that adds a service and Start Menu entries, and a portable build that is just a folder you run and delete. This guide's test covered the portable build the way winget installs it, as an unpacked folder under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages with no separate uninstaller of its own; most people running Everything from voidtools.com's own installer will use the steps below from the vendor's documentation instead, which this guide also covers.

Quit Everything first

Everything normally runs in the background with a tray icon so it can answer searches instantly; check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for Everything.exe and quit it from its tray icon or Task Manager before removing it.

Remove the app

For the installed version, go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Everything, and choose Uninstall, or use Control Panel's Programs and Features as voidtools documents. If you installed it through winget:

winget uninstall --id voidtools.Everything

For the portable build, voidtools documents running Everything.exe -uninstall first (this unregisters its background service and any Explorer integration) and then simply deleting the folder; nothing elsewhere on the system is touched by a portable install unless you changed its settings.

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`%APPDATA%\Everything`	`Everything.ini` and your search history and bookmarks, only if you turned on "Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything" in Everything's options	Safe to remove; recreated with defaults if you reinstall
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Everything`	The file index database	Safe to remove; Everything rebuilds it by reindexing your drives
Next to `Everything.exe` (portable build, unless the option above is turned on)	`Everything.ini` and the index database	Removed automatically when you delete the portable folder

By default Everything keeps its settings and index next to the program rather than in your profile; the %APPDATA%\Everything and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Everything folders above only exist if you turned that option on.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after removing Everything:

Get-Process Everything -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id voidtools.Everything
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Everything"
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Everything"

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.
Either Test-Path returning True means you had turned on the "Store settings and data in %APPDATA%" option and that data is still there; False is expected otherwise.

If you installed it with winget

For the regular installer package, winget uninstall runs the same uninstaller Settings › Apps uses. For the portable package (what this guide's test used), winget removes the unpacked folder directly since there is no separate installer step to run.

What Mole lists

On the ARM64 test PC winget installs Everything as a portable package, an unpacked folder under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages, and that folder goes with the app row. Nothing else was listed for it.

The voidtools installer was not tested. With its APPDATA option on, the settings and index live in %APPDATA%\Everything instead; check that folder yourself after uninstalling.

What this test covered

Tested with Everything 1.4.1.1032 installed as a winget-managed portable package on an ARM64 VM; it never ran as a background process during the test, so its usual tray presence and live indexing were not exercised. Not verified: the vendor's own NSIS installer on real x64 hardware, portable use outside of winget, and the APPDATA settings option turned on.