How to Uninstall Quicken

Quicken is a personal and business accounting and budgeting application from Inuit Inc. Quicken is a useful software, but some situations may require you to uninstall Quicken from your Windows computer.

Common reasons due to which you may need to uninstall Quicken include:

  • You are unable to install a new version of Quicken because an older version of the software already exists on your computer.
  • The Quicken software installed on your computer is corrupt.
  • You no longer require Quicken and thus want to remove the software to free up hard disk space.

Quicken, like many other software programs, can be easily uninstalled using the Windows built-in uninstaller named Add or Remove Programs.

In some cases, many find that Quicken is not present in the list of installed programs on the computer, or that the program may not be completely uninstalled when you remove it via Add or Remove Programs. In such a scenario, you may uninstall Quicken using the QCleanUI.exe utility or any other professional Windows uninstaller program.

How to uninstall Quicken using Add or Remove Programs

Windows XP

  1. Click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Add or Remove Programs.
  3. Locate and select Quicken in the currently installed programs list.
  4. Click the Remove button.
  5. Click Yes if asked to confirm deletion.
  6. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the removal process.

Windows 7/Vista

  1. Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
  2. Click Programs and Features.
  3. Locate and select Quicken in the currently installed programs list.
  4. Click Uninstall.
  5. Click Yes if a User Account Control Dialog box appears.
  6. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the uninstallation process.

After you have removed Quicken, run a registry scan using an advanced Windows registry cleaner such as RegGenie to remove all the Quicken registry entries from your Windows registry.

How to uninstall Quicken using the QCleanUI.exe utility

As mentioned above, in some cases, you may not be able to uninstall Quicken via Add or Remove Programs, or Quicken may not appear in the currently installed programs list. In such cases, you can easy uninstall Quicken using the QCleanUI.exe utility by performing the following steps:

  1. Create a new folder on your desktop.
  2. Download QCleanUI.exe and MSIzap.exe for free and save both the files in the new folder that you created in Step 1.
  3. Double click QCleanUI.exe.
  4. Select Clean all versions.
  5. Click Clean.
  6. Click Quit to close QCleanUI after the uninstallation process is complete.

Alternatively, you may use a Windows professional uninstaller tool such as Perfect Uninstaller to remove Quicken in case you are unable to uninstall Quicken via Add or Remove Programs.

Perfect Uninstaller is a top-rated uninstaller program and has the following two distinct advantages over QCleanUI.exe:

  • It is considerably faster than QCleanUI.exe
  • You can use Perfect Uninstaller to remove any installed program, whereas the services of QCleanUI.exe are limited only to the removal of Quicken applications.