Besides being free, Atom is especially adaptive and super easy to customize amongst a whole load of other benefits. But if there’s one bone to pick with Atom, it’s the difficult uninstallation process in Windows. That’s because when you go to the uninstall/remove programs option in control panel/settings, the Atom uninstall option doesn’t work like other uninstallers and will tend to leave some program folders intact. This means the application is only partially uninstalled. Yet you need to completely get rid of such folders to discard Atom. Now, this article covers how to successfully uninstall Atom in windows including the said folders. So, without further ado, let’s see how to uninstall Atom Windows.

Steps to remove Atom Windows

In Windows 7

The first step is to remove Atom from the control panel . Steps:

  1. Locate the programs tab and click uninstall a program.
  2. Choose Atom then uninstall. Atom will be silently removed from your PC.

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The second stage involves deleting all the Atom-related folders to ensure that none of the App’s configurations remain. Here are the concerned folders:

C:UsersUserName.atom C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalatom C:UsersUserNameAppDataRoamingAtom

Steps:

  1. Using the previous steps, find your way to C:UsersUserNameAppDataRoaming.
  2. Once there, find the atom folder and erase it. Please note that in some instances, the Appdata folder is not available in Windows 7 and you have to unhide first. Here is how:

In Windows 8/8.1

You still have to delete the .atom folder as discussed here below.

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How To unhide the AppData folder in Windows 8/8.1:

In Windows 10

That should do away with the basic installation. Finally do away with the setup files by deleting the .atom folder. Steps: How To unhide the AppData folder in Windows 10: RELATED STORIES

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