How to Completely Uninstall Eclipse IDE from Windows computer

Details: Written by Nam Ha Minh; Last Updated on 04 December 2020 | Print Email

In this short article, I’d like to share with you how to remove Eclipse IDE completely from Windows operating system. Suppose that you have an installation of Eclipse, which was installed by Eclipse installer program.

Eclipse doesn’t come with an uninstaller so you need to perform the following steps to completely remove Eclipse from your computer:

Delete Eclipse installation directory
Delete Eclipse shortcut on desktop at C:\Users\YourUserName\Desktop
Delete Eclipse shortcut in Start menu at C:\Users\YourUserName\Start Menu\Programs\Eclipse
Delete the .p2 directory under your user home directory C:\Users\YourUserName\ - The .p2 directory stores cache, settings and temporary files that were created by Eclipse IDE. Depending on how you use Eclipse, this directory may contain large amount of data.

NOTE: If you don’t use Maven any more, you can delete the .m2 directory under your user home. The .m2 directory stores jar files downloaded by Maven (repository) so it usually contains a huge amount of data.

Those are the steps which you need to follow in order to completely uninstall Eclipse IDE from Windows operating system. To see the steps in action, you can watch the following video:

About the Author:

Nam Ha Minh is certified Java programmer (SCJP and SCWCD). He began programming with Java back in the days of Java 1.4 and has been passionate about it ever since. You can connect with him on Facebook and watch his Java videos on YouTube.