PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.8.1

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.8.1 — its own update-signing key

No feature changes. This release exists to fix one thing: the auto-updater
trusted the same signing key as PC Tweaker and Redaxa — three separate
products verifying updates against one shared private key. A compromise of
that one key, together with push access to any one of the three
repositories, could have signed a malicious update for all three install
bases at once, not just the product actually breached.

What changed

• A new, Uninstaller-only Ed25519 keypair now signs its updates. This
  release is still signed with the old shared key, because that is the
  only key existing 0.8.0 installs trust — it is what lets this update
  reach them at all. From the release after this one onward, the
  Uninstaller signs only with its own key.
• Nothing else moved: same binary, same behaviour, same detection logic.

If you're on 0.8.0 already

You update to this release exactly as you would any other — nothing to do
by hand. If you skip checking for updates for a long stretch and land
directly on a future release without passing through this one first, the
auto-update check for that one jump may fail silently, since your app would
still be trusting the old key. A normal manual install fixes it, the same
as installing 0.8.0 the first time did.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.8.0 — Microsoft Store apps

Microsoft Store apps are now listed and removable

Until this release the app read the three registry Uninstall views and nothing else — the same ones Add/Remove Programs has read for twenty years. Modern Windows keeps a second, parallel inventory: MSIX packages, listed in Settings > Installed apps, mentioned in no registry key at all. On a normal Windows 11 machine that is over a hundred programs an uninstaller was quietly claiming did not exist.

• Store/MSIX packages appear in the same list, searchable and sortable alongside everything else, with their own badge and install date.
• The Removal Confidence Score bands them from evidence Windows itself reports: frameworks and shell components are Keep, packages signed as part of Windows are Review, ordinary Store installs are Safe.
• Frameworks, resource packages and components Windows gives no display name to sit behind the existing Show hidden toggle rather than cluttering the list — the same treatment registry system components already get.
• Removal goes through the Windows package manager API, the same one Settings uses. Deliberately not Remove-AppxPackage: this app refuses to run interpreters for registry uninstalls, and shelling out to PowerShell here would have made that rule cosmetic.
• No residue step for these — MSIX removal is contained by the packaging format, and the app says so rather than running a scan that would find nothing.

One limit, stated plainly

Without administrator rights Windows gives no way to tell an app that shipped with the system from one you installed: Notepad and Spotify report identical evidence. Rather than hardcode a list of Microsoft package names and present a guess as evidence, inbox apps can land in Safe — and Safe for an MSIX package says what it means: removal leaves nothing behind, and the app can be reinstalled from the Store.

23 new tests, including live ones that exercise the real package manager on the machine running them.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.7.1

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.7.1

Bug fix: a program could stay listed after being uninstalled.

Fixed

Many third-party uninstallers — NSIS or Inno Setup based, common for
Electron apps — copy themselves to a temp file, relaunch that copy, and
exit almost immediately. The original process reported success while the
real removal work (deleting the registry key, the install folder) was
still running in the detached child, so refreshing the list right after
ran too early and the program appeared not to have been removed.

Executable-kind uninstalls now wait (up to 5 seconds, checking every
250ms) for the registry entry to actually disappear before the report is
returned. MSI uninstalls are unaffected — msiexec.exe performs the
removal synchronously and already reported correctly.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.7.0 — Pro takes shape

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.7.0 — Pro takes shape

Uninstaller Pro now unlocks the two power features, priced at €13.99/year (€4.99/year with an active PC Tweaker Pro subscription):

• Residue cleanup — the post-uninstall leftover scan stays free for everyone: you always get to see what an uninstaller left behind. Moving it to the Recycle Bin is Pro.
• Safe Batch — selecting and previewing a batch stays free; executing it is Pro.

Single uninstalls — with the Confidence Score, the Removal Brief, restore points, the ledger and all relationship warnings — remain free. Always.

Delivered automatically via the built-in updater.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.6.0 — Uninstaller Pro

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.6.0 — Uninstaller Pro

Uninstaller Pro can now be purchased from inside the app.

• €13.99 / year — or €4.99 / year with the loyalty price for accounts with an active PC Tweaker Pro subscription. The price is decided server-side against your verified account, never by the app.
• Checkout runs in your system browser through Stripe; the app never sees your card.
• Your Pro status appears in the account menu and follows your account across machines.

All Removal Intelligence features remain available to everyone in this release.

Delivered automatically via the built-in updater.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.5.0 — Safe Batch

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.5.0 — Safe Batch

Removal Intelligence is complete. The final piece: removing several programs at once, without giving up a single safety guarantee.

• Select multiple, uninstall once — checkboxes on every removable program, a batch bar with live count and total size.
• Protected entries can't even be selected — system components, shared runtimes, drivers and your PC Tweaker suite are excluded at the checkbox, not at the last moment.
• Safe order, guaranteed — contained programs (a game under its launcher) are removed before their containers, so their own uninstallers still exist when their turn comes.
• Same machinery per item — restore point, verified freed space, a ledger receipt for each program; one failure never stops the rest.

With Confidence Score, Removal Brief, the Ledger, Residue Intelligence, the Relationship Map and Safe Batch, the full Removal Intelligence vision is shipped.

Delivered automatically via the built-in updater.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.4.0 — Relationship Map

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.4.0 — Relationship Map

Programs are not islands. This release maps how they relate — from evidence, never guesses — and warns you before a removal breaks something else.

• Dependents — a program installed inside another's folder (a Steam game under steamapps, a plugin under its host) is its dependent. The confirmation dialog now names them: "Removing this also takes down: ...".
• Installed via — the contained program gets the mirror warning: "Installed via Steam — consider removing it from there instead."
• Publisher context — "5 other programs from this publisher are installed" before you remove one of a family.
• Conservative by design — bare drives and shallow paths never form trees; identical install locations are not each other's dependents. Every claim traces to a registry value.

Delivered automatically via the built-in updater.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.3.0 — Residue Intelligence

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.3.0 — Residue Intelligence

Uninstallers lie. They finish "successfully" and leave folders, shortcuts and registry keys behind. This release finds them.

• Scan for leftovers — after a successful uninstall, one click finds what survived: the install folder itself, AppData/ProgramData folders, Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts, and registry keys.
• Conservative by design — a leftover is only proposed on an exact normalized-name match against the program's name or publisher, with a stoplist of shared vendor names. A "Microsoft" folder is never residue.
• Reversible by design — everything you clean goes to the Recycle Bin, not into the void. Per-user registry keys are the one flagged exception; machine-wide keys are listed but never touched.
• Validated twice — the cleanup engine re-checks every path against the same rules that proposed it. Nothing outside those rules can be removed, by construction.

Delivered automatically to existing installs via the built-in updater.

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.2.0 — Removal Intelligence

PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.2.0 — "Removal Intelligence"

The first public release. Most uninstallers show you a list and a button. This one shows you evidence — because the scariest part of removing software isn't clicking Uninstall, it's not knowing what you're about to break.

Removal Intelligence for Windows

• Removal Confidence Score. Every program is banded Safe to remove, Review before removing, or Keep — system-related, from visible evidence in the Windows registry: shared runtimes other apps depend on (Visual C++, .NET, WebView2, Java), driver and chipset packages, game launchers, missing publishers, broken uninstall entries. Every verdict explains itself line by line — and every verdict is labeled for what it is: a guide, never a certainty.
• The Removal Brief. Before anything runs, you see the method, the privileges required, the estimated space you'll get back, the confidence band with its reasons, and the exact command that will execute. You also see what will not be removed automatically — no pretend deep-cleaning.
• The Clean Removal Ledger. Every removal leaves a local receipt — successes and failures alike — with the restore-point outcome and disk space verified by measuring the install folder before and after, not just repeating the registry's claim. Export it as JSON anytime. It lives on your PC and never leaves it.

Built on a paranoid core

The command that runs is rebuilt from the registry at execution time and re-validated — the preview you confirmed is display-only, so nothing can swap a different command underneath your click. MSI removals are reconstructed as msiexec /x {GUID} /qn /norestart with the GUID as the only registry-derived byte. Script-based uninstallers are refused outright. One UAC consent per machine-wide removal, with a System Restore point attempted first. No silent deletions. No shell. Ever.

Also in this release

• Automatic updates — signed builds verify their signature and update in place.
• Five languages (EN, IT, FR, ES, DE) and eight themes, both remembered.
• One suite account with PC Tweaker: sign in with the same credentials, and a verified PC Tweaker Pro subscription unlocks Uninstaller Pro at €4.99/year. Plans and registration live on pctweaker.app.

Download for Windows 10/11 — and if your PC deserves more than a cleanup, PC Tweaker 1.0 "Control Room" shipped today too.