Uninstall option

[jcolesio]

Any plans to include an uninstaller in order to revert back to default installation?

[mintty]

Not sure what a "default installation" is. The next release of wsltty (in a few days) will install a Start Menu sub-folder, with setup options to install and uninstall the Explorer context menu items. I'm still thinking whether to install a desktop icon at all, but it can easily be removed anyway. See #13.
A complete uninstall option is not planned because WSL itself doesn't have one either.

[mintty]

Released install/uninstall for Explorer context menu items with 0.7.0.

[MicahZoltu]

If you won't be releasing an uninstaller, can you please list all of the things that need to be done to remove wsltty? It is causing severe problems on my machine and I need to delete it, but I don't know what registry entries it has written, folders it has created, etc.

[mintty]

The new Store-based distributions have an uninstall option, right? (The previous Bash on Windows didn't, so wsltty didn't have one either.) So I'll improve on this.

For the records: Software is installed in %LOCALAPPDATA%/wsltty, configuration directory is set up in %APPDATA%/wsltty.
Registry entries are only used for the Windows Explorer context menu integration, for which an uninstaller exists already, albeit with a problem (#52 (comment)).

[mintty]

Here is the deal: if #63 gets resolved thanks to some kind person's contribution, I will take care of a proper uninstallation feature.

[mintty]

A Windows Appx package is now available in the wsltty.appx repository.
It includes an Uninstall option. Closing this issue.

[nickdotht]

@mintty Well, cheers for the Appx package but I still can't fully uninstall the old WSLtty. I deleted the folders located at %LOCALAPPDATA%/wsltty and %APPDATA%/wsltty but the Explorer context menu entry still persists. How do you suggest I fix this?

[mintty]

Reinstall (either version, may be the appx package) and from the Start menu WSLtty subfolder, run "remove from context menu".

[Biswa96]

Universal Widows Packages aka. Appx packages has no code to uninstall. Windows has the built-in feature to delete all the associated files during uninstall. Think that feature as 'garbage collection' in managed languages (e.g. Java, C# etc.).

[nickdotht]

@mintty I reinstalled wsltty, I installed the Appx package, I ran the remove from context menu command (as Admin), then I deleted the folders located at %LOCALAPPDATA%/wsltty and %APPDATA%/wsltty, then I ran install_appx.cmd command (as Admin) once again so I can enter u to uninstall the Appx package (Nothing happened, it simply closed the Cmd window). Finally, I restarted the computer.

They are both still in the context menu and the Appx version is still installed. Am I missing something here?

[Biswa96]

Appx package and normal installation are very much different. Also their installation paths are different.

[nickdotht]

@Biswa96 I was just following @mintty's suggestion.

[mintty]

It seems that the current version of the script invocation config-distros.sh -contextmenu-remove does not match the context menu entries of early versions of wsltty anymore, due to changed parameters (particularly --WSL rather than --wsl). Please use the registry editor (regedit) to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background and find all entries referring to mintty or WSL. What's a value of them?
These entries can be removed manually.

[nickdotht]

Could not find any entries related to Mintty or WSL at those locations.

[mintty]

Please navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory, right-click on it and export the registry subtree. Upload the file here.

[nickdotht]

Here is the content of that registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\Hyper]
@="Open Hyper here"
"Icon"="\"C:\\Users\\Nick\\AppData\\Local\\hyper\\app-2.0.0\\Hyper.exe\""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\Hyper\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\Nick\\AppData\\Local\\hyper\\app-2.0.0\\Hyper.exe\" \"%V\""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\VSCode]
@=hex(2):4f,00,70,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,77,00,26,00,69,00,74,00,68,00,20,00,43,\
  00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,00,00
"Icon"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,55,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,4e,00,69,\
  00,63,00,6b,00,5c,00,41,00,70,00,70,00,44,00,61,00,74,00,61,00,5c,00,4c,00,\
  6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,73,\
  00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,20,00,56,00,\
  53,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,5c,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,65,\
  00,78,00,65,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\VSCode\command]
@=hex(2):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,55,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,4e,00,69,\
  00,63,00,6b,00,5c,00,41,00,70,00,70,00,44,00,61,00,74,00,61,00,5c,00,4c,00,\
  6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,73,\
  00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,20,00,56,00,\
  53,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,5c,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,65,\
  00,78,00,65,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,56,00,22,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shellex]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ FileSyncEx]
@="{CB3D0F55-BC2C-4C1A-85ED-23ED75B5106B}"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\VSCode]
@=hex(2):4f,00,70,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,77,00,26,00,69,00,74,00,68,00,20,00,43,\
  00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,00,00
"Icon"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,55,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,4e,00,69,\
  00,63,00,6b,00,5c,00,41,00,70,00,70,00,44,00,61,00,74,00,61,00,5c,00,4c,00,\
  6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,73,\
  00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,20,00,56,00,\
  53,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,5c,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,65,\
  00,78,00,65,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\VSCode\command]
@=hex(2):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,55,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,4e,00,69,\
  00,63,00,6b,00,5c,00,41,00,70,00,70,00,44,00,61,00,74,00,61,00,5c,00,4c,00,\
  6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,73,\
  00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,20,00,56,00,\
  53,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,5c,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,65,\
  00,78,00,65,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,56,00,22,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shellex]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ FileSyncEx]
@="{CB3D0F55-BC2C-4C1A-85ED-23ED75B5106B}"

[mintty]

Actually, there is also registry subtree HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory with subfolders Background and shell. While the wsltty installer does not touch that hierarchy, the wsltty.appx package might do.
@Biswa96, can you comment on this?
If that's the cause of your context menu entries, just delete the respective ones there, please.

[nickdotht]

Nope, found nothing related to WSL or WSLtty, nor mintty at those locations.

[Biswa96]

I made the wsltty.appx with just some primary knowledge. In this current state (till now), the Appx package doesn't touch any registry nor any context menu. If anyone want that feature then I've to read some docs.

[mintty]

Any occurrence of "mintty" in the registry? This is weird. Sure you really still have the entries in the Explorer context menu right now?

[nickdotht]

I did a full search for the term tty and deleted everything I found - except for the ones that are not related to mintty - until I reached the end of the registry - I found a lot btw. Then I restarted. It's still in my Explorer context menu.

[mintty]

Does anyone have the same issue?
Can anyone comment on this?

[mintty]

Released 3.0.5.