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How to uninstall PixPin on Windows

PixPin keeps its screenshot and OCR history in a per-user data folder that a plain uninstall does not touch. Back it up first if you want to keep that history. This guide covers PixPin installed per-user from the PixPin.PixPin winget package.

Quit PixPin first

PixPin runs from the tray. Check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for PixPin.exe and crashpad_handler.exe and close them before you uninstall.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

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

winget uninstall --id PixPin.PixPin

Where the data lives

Location What it holds What to do
%LOCALAPPDATA%\PixPin Screenshot and OCR history, right-click menu settings, cache and its own log file Back this up if you want to keep your history; otherwise safe to remove

In this test the vendor's own uninstaller removed this folder along with the program, so it was already gone by the time the review finished; back it up before you uninstall regardless.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process PixPin -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id PixPin.PixPin
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\PixPin"
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\PixPin"
  • 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.
  • The second returning True means your history folder is still there, which is expected only if you kept it on purpose.

If you installed it with winget

winget uninstall runs the same Inno Setup uninstaller Settings › Apps uses and removes the same program files and, as observed in this test, the %LOCALAPPDATA%\PixPin folder along with them.

What Mole lists

For PixPin installed per-user from winget:

  • The program folder, the Desktop shortcut, and the user Start Menu shortcuts are selected by default.
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\PixPin, where your screenshot and OCR history live, is listed but not selected.
  • PixPin's own pixpin:// link registration is selected by default and backed up to a .reg file before removal.

What this test covered

Tested with PixPin 3.5.5.1 installed through winget, per-user scope, x86 Inno Setup package. No screenshots or OCR history were created during the test, so removal of an existing history folder was not verified end to end. The test installed it from an elevated session, so its uninstaller asked for administrator access; a normal per-user install does not.