Uninstall should (offer to) remove old settings and config

[DavidGretzschel]

Version 10.0.18363 Build 18363

uninstalled 0.13, rebooted, installed 0.14

When I pressed win+` for the first time I saw my old profiles and "space around zones"-settings.
An uninstaller must either just remove all old settings/make it a checkbox-option to do so/point towards a folder I can delete, to do so myself. Everything else is just brutish and nasty.
Omitting this wholesale is especially rude towards beta-testers.
If I wanted to make sure that certain bugs, behaviours and issues actually are fixed now, I would want to do this from a fresh install. Without any of my old workarounds and coerced-by-bug settings (like me setting "space around zones" to 0).
Now I'm forced to figure out where PowerToys stores its settings. Uninstall again.
Delete those settings and reinstall.

[DavidGretzschel]

I tried deleting:
C:\Users\david\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys

That wasn't enough. All my settings were back.
Where is this stuff stored?

[enricogior]

FancyZones is still using the registry for its settings, in RegEdit search for SuperFancyZones.

[DavidGretzschel]

Not terribly familiar with the "registry editor". For one, I don't know where the search-function is.
Would you mind telling me an exact path or telling me, where they hid the search-function?
Should I then delete all entries containing the String "SuperFancyZones"?
Is it only one or are there multiple such entries?

[enricogior]

F3 to search or just navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SuperFancyZones\AppZoneHistory

[Jay-o-Way]

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SuperFancyZones\AppZoneHistory

Is this the only Registry entry people have to delete? I also noticed Power Toys does not clean up after itself, when uninstalling. Old settings are used when installing again. Pretty sloppy, if you ask me.

Still the case after removing 0.19.1: folder C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys (including files) is not removed.

[ukWaqas]

Can we have a manual solution to the complete removal of PT in the meantime? This can have unintended consequences in bug-fixed future versions if legacy settings persist.

[enricogior]

@ukWaqas
delete

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys

[Jay-o-Way]

It makes sense to me, but the best thing would be if the (un)installer knows the difference between uninstalling during an update, and uninstalling to actually remove.

[enricogior]

@Jay-o-Way
we are going to add a checkbox so the users can choose if they want to delete the settings, doing it automatically is not the right approach.

[crutkas]

@yuyoyuppe with upgrading moving back to proper upgrading, an uninstall should be able to fully remove settings now.

Is #10126 tracking this item?

[yuyoyuppe]

Yes, that's correct. I've added this request as a comment there.