{"id":470,"date":"2020-10-15T18:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/?post_type=knowledgebase&#038;p=470"},"modified":"2024-12-04T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:42:22","slug":"how-to-completely-uninstall-mediamonkey","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/how-to-completely-uninstall-mediamonkey\/","title":{"rendered":"How to completely uninstall MediaMonkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If for some reason, your installation of MediaMonkey is corrupted and want to do a clean install of MediaMonkey or you no longer wish to use MediaMonkey, you can uninstall MediaMonkey as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Close MediaMonkey and verify via the Windows Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DELETE) that it&#8217;s no longer running.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uninstall MediaMonkey via the Windows Control Panel. This will remove the application, file associations, and registration information.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On <strong>Windows 10<\/strong>: Via the Start menu > Settings > Apps select MediaMonkey and use the Uninstall button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On <strong>Windows 8<\/strong>: Type &#8216;control panel&#8217; in the search bar to launch the Control Panel, click &#8216;Programs and Features&#8217;, select &#8216;MediaMonkey&#8217;, and then click &#8216;uninstall&#8217;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On <strong>Windows 7<\/strong>: Launch the Control Panel via the Start menu, click &#8216;Uninstall a program&#8217;, select &#8216;MediaMonkey&#8217;, and click &#8216;uninstall&#8217;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On <strong>Windows XP<\/strong>: Launch the Control Panel via the Start menu, click &#8216;Add or Remove Programs&#8217;, select &#8216;MediaMonkey&#8217;, and click &#8220;Change\/Remove&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For most users that&#8217;s sufficient, but if you want to remove any traces of the MediaMonkey and its database (e.g. if you&#8217;ll never need it again or if it was corrupted) then you can proceed with the following additional steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Delete the contents of %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\\MediaMonkey 5 <em>(for MediaMonkey 5+)<\/em> or %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\\MediaMonkey <em>(for older versions of MediaMonkey).<\/em> This removes any scripts, plugins, and configuration files that you may have added.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delete the folder that contains the .ini and database file(s)&#8211;there may be more than one if you&#8217;ve installed multiple versions. This can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/modifying-the-mediamonkey-db-and-ini-files\/\" data-type=\"knowledgebase\" data-id=\"412\">following location<\/a>.<br>NOTE: Deleting the database is only required if you&#8217;re having database problems, wish to completely reset your synchronization profile or wish to completely remove MediaMonkey.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>To remove a portable installation of MediaMonkey, simply delete the folder where you installed MediaMonkey. This folder contains all the files used by MediaMonkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point all remnants of MediaMonkey have been removed. If you wish to re-install:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empty your browser&#8217;s cache and download the latest version of MediaMonkey.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Install MediaMonkey, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/purchasing-licensing-mediamonkey-for-windows\/retrieve-a-lost-license-key\/\" data-type=\"knowledgebase\" data-id=\"365\">register it<\/a> (if you have a license key).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatively, MediaMonkey 4+ allows you to use a Portable Installation to test a clean installation. Just check the option Portable Installation during the Setup wizard and choose a different folder to install than you used previously. That way, the portable installation will not have any effect on your current installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once you remove the database file there is no recovery for playlists, play history, device profiles, podcast subscriptions, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If for some reason, your installation of MediaMonkey is corrupted and want to do a clean install of MediaMonkey or you no longer wish to use MediaMonkey, you can uninstall MediaMonkey as follows: For most users that&#8217;s sufficient, but if you want to remove any traces of the MediaMonkey and its database (e.g. if you&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[109],"knowledgebase_tag":[102,103],"class_list":["post-470","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-mediamonkey-install-config","knowledgebase_tag-mmw4","knowledgebase_tag-mmw5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163491,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/470\/revisions\/163491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}