How to uninstall Fan Control on Windows

Fan Control sets your fan curves from software, so once it is gone your fans go back to what the BIOS or the board's own tool decides. If you built curves you want to keep, save a copy of the configuration file you use before uninstalling. This guide covers Fan Control installed machine-wide from the Rem0o.FanControl winget package.

Turn off start with Windows and quit

If you set Fan Control to start with Windows, untick that option in Fan Control first. The project's release notes say this option runs it through a Task Scheduler task named "Fan Control", and that you can otherwise delete that task yourself. Then exit Fan Control from its tray icon and check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for any FanControl.exe still listed. Fan Control runs with administrator rights, so it asks for administrator access each time it starts.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

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

winget uninstall --id Rem0o.FanControl

This is a machine-wide install, so Windows asks for administrator access.

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`%ProgramFiles(x86)%\FanControl`	Program files	Removed by the uninstaller
Start Menu shortcut	Shortcut	Removed by the uninstaller
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common`	An empty per-user Common Files folder the installer created	Shared by other programs that use the same installer; leave it

Check the result

Get-Process FanControl -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName "Fan Control" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id Rem0o.FanControl
Test-Path "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\FanControl"

No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown.
If Get-ScheduledTask succeeds without suppressed errors, no output means no start-with-Windows task is left. A listed task means the option was still on; delete it in Task Scheduler.
A completed winget list query with no match means the package record is gone.
Test-Path returning False means the program folder is gone; True means files remain there.

If you installed it with winget

winget uninstall runs the same uninstaller Settings › Apps uses and removes the same files.

What Mole lists

For Fan Control installed machine-wide from winget:

The program folder, the Start Menu shortcut and a row grouping Windows' own records of when you opened the program are selected by default.
The shared %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common folder is not listed.

What this test covered

Tested on September 26, 2026 with Fan Control 279 installed through winget, machine scope, removed with its Inno Setup uninstaller running silently. Every listed row was ticked and removed in this test. Start with Windows was never turned on and no fan curve was saved, so neither was tested; the VM has no fans to control.