How to uninstall Quark Cloud Drive on Windows
This record covers Quark Cloud Drive (夸克网盘), registered version 3.24.0, installed through winget Alibaba.QuarkCloudDrive with user scope. Files uploaded to Quark stay in the account, but unfinished transfers stop; let transfers finish and check important uploads on the web version before uninstalling.
Close the app
Quit Quark Cloud Drive from its tray icon. It runs about a dozen QuarkCloudDrive.exe processes; check in Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) that every process whose path belongs to the app has ended.
Data and settings
| Location | Action |
|---|---|
%APPDATA%\quark-cloud-drive |
Settings and local cache; the vendor uninstaller removed it in this test, so back it up first if you want to keep it |
Remove with the vendor uninstaller
Find the app in Settings › Apps › Installed apps and uninstall it, or run the command below. Although it installs per user, its uninstaller still shows a UAC prompt and continues only once approved; use the uninstaller rather than deleting the program folder.
winget uninstall --id Alibaba.QuarkCloudDrive --exact
Check the result
Get-Process -Name 'QuarkCloudDrive' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id Alibaba.QuarkCloudDrive --exact
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\quark-cloud-drive"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\quark-cloud-drive"
No process output means no matching process was observed. A completed installation query with no match means the measured registration is absent; a query error does not prove removal. Test-Path returns True if the folder remains and False if absent.
What Mole lists
%APPDATA%\quark-cloud-drive listed but unchecked. Selected by default: the program folder, the desktop and Start menu shortcuts, the qkclouddrive protocol, the QuarkCloudDrive.torrent file type, the file and folder context menu entries Upload to Quark, Send to phone and Back up this folder, and Chrome's cn.quark.pan native messaging host. Registrations are backed up before removal; files go to the Recycle Bin. Items already removed by the vendor read Missing. Its machine-wide "Office to PDF" context menu handler in HKLM is not listed; the handler names left after uninstalling point to a removed component and no longer show in File Explorer.
What this test covered
Recorded in Windows 11 ARM64 source tests on 2026-10-16, uninstall type Inno Setup. The released download, account sign-in, synced content, version upgrades and other installation channels were not verified.