How to uninstall Native Access on Windows

Native Access only installs, updates and activates Native Instruments products. Instruments, libraries and plug-ins you installed through it are separate installs and stay where they are, and your licenses stay with your Native Instruments account, so there is little to back up. You will need Native Access again to install, update or reactivate those products later. This guide covers Native Access 2 installed per-user from the installer on native-instruments.com, which puts its program files in %ProgramFiles%\Native Instruments\Native Access.

Quit Native Access first

Let any download or installation finish, then close the window. Native Access runs several processes, so check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for any Native Access.exe still listed. It added no startup entry in this test.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

Go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Native Access, and choose Uninstall. There is no winget package for this install.

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`%ProgramFiles%\Native Instruments\Native Access`	Program files	The uninstaller removes it
`%ProgramFiles%\Native Instruments`	Vendor parent folder	Empty after the uninstall unless other Native Instruments products live there; remove it only if it is empty
`%APPDATA%\Native Instruments\Native Access`	Settings, sign-in state and web caches	Remove it for a clean start; sign in again after a reinstall
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\nativeaccess2-updater`	Downloaded update installers	Safe to remove
`HKCU\Software\Native Instruments\Native Access`	App settings	Safe to remove once the app is gone
`HKCU\Software\Native Instruments\Shared` and `%APPDATA%\Native Instruments`	Shared by Native Instruments products	Leave them while you use any other Native Instruments product
`HKCU\Software\Classes\native-access`	The `native-access://` link registration	Left by the uninstaller; safe to remove once the app is gone

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process "Native Access" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-ItemProperty HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Where-Object DisplayName -like "Native Access*"
Test-Path "$env:ProgramFiles\Native Instruments\Native Access"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Native Instruments\Native Access"
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\nativeaccess2-updater"
Test-Path HKCU:\Software\Classes\native-access

No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown.
Get-ItemProperty returning values means the entry remains. With no output, check for permission or other query errors before deciding that it is absent.
The first Test-Path returning False means the program folder is gone.
The next two returning True mean the settings folder or the update cache is still there.
The last Test-Path returning True means the link registration is still there.

Account and licenses

Uninstalling does not deactivate your products or remove them from your Native Instruments account. Your serial numbers and downloads stay in the account.

What Mole lists

For Native Access installed per-user from the vendor installer:

The program folder goes with the app row.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\nativeaccess2-updater, which holds only downloaded update installers, is selected by default.
%APPDATA%\Native Instruments\Native Access is listed but not selected. The caches inside it (Cache, Code Cache, Crashpad, DawnGraphiteCache, DawnWebGPUCache and GPUCache) are listed on their own and selected.
The desktop and Start Menu shortcuts are selected by default.
HKCU\Software\Native Instruments\Native Access is listed but not selected, and backed up to a .reg file before removal.
The native-access:// link registration was not listed in this test; check it and remove it yourself after the uninstall.
The shared Native Instruments folders and keys, and the empty %ProgramFiles%\Native Instruments folder, are not listed.

What this test covered

Tested on 2026-09-28 with Native Access 3.26.0 from the Native Access 2 installer, per-user scope, on an ARM64 virtual machine. Its NSIS uninstaller ran silently. Every listed row was ticked and removed in this test. Not verified: a signed-in account and installed Native Instruments products.