# Can't uninstall Wowza from Windows 10

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487 "2018-01-05T10:16:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Andrea\_Paradisi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Andrea\_Paradisi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrea_Paradisi)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487/1 "2018-01-05T10:16:41Z")

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Hello there,

I can’t remove wowza from my PC. Uninstaller start but freeze on “Removing wowza Streaming Engine service”. It stops the services accordingly but it can’t go further. Any of you got same issue ?

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**Author:** ![Stuart\_Gunn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Stuart\_Gunn](https://community.wowza.com/u/Stuart_Gunn)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487/2 "2018-01-08T01:22:03Z")

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It’s pretty self contained so you could just delete the directories and use the inbuilt windows functions to remove the service.

[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/197876/how-do-i-uninstall-a-windows-service-if-the-files-do-not-exist-anymore](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/197876/how-do-i-uninstall-a-windows-service-if-the-files-do-not-exist-anymore)

I know it’s not clean like an uninstall but I think this will get you 99.99% of the way.

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**Author:** ![Andrea\_Paradisi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Andrea\_Paradisi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrea_Paradisi)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487/3 "2018-01-09T07:53:38Z")

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Already done it. However, I would like to remove also from register and from “installed application”. How should I do?

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**Author:** ![Andrea\_Avogadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Andrea\_Avogadro](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrea_Avogadro)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487/4 "2018-07-02T08:40:10Z")

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run the unistaller from:

[https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo\_uninstaller\_free\_download.html](https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html)

when stuck kill the exe and let the program clean for you

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**Author:** ![kendrick\_lamar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9c0ed/32.png) [@kendrick\_lamar](https://community.wowza.com/u/kendrick_lamar)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487/5 "2019-08-21T07:32:49Z")

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If you terminate the cmd.exe process in Task Manager’s ‘Details’ menu, the uninstall will proceed.

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**Author:** ![Enrique\_Sanjuanelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4491bb/32.png) [@Enrique\_Sanjuanelo](https://community.wowza.com/u/Enrique_Sanjuanelo)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487/6 "2021-01-19T01:46:47Z")

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I have just corrected it by closing the cmd.exe within the uninstallation process. Thanks

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cant-uninstall-wowza-from-windows-10/50487/7 "2021-01-19T19:31:37Z")

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Great! Thanks for the update.