You uninstall Abel, deleting it from your hard disk, in the same way as you'd delete any other package installed on your PC. This varies slightly according to the version of Windows you're using. You start by going to the Windows Settings (Control Panel in older versions of Windows); you can do this by clicking on the Start menu button (usually found in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen), then selecting the Settings icon or Control Panel.

When Settings/Control Panel appears, for older versions of Windows, select (double click) "Add/Remove Programs"; for newer Windows versions, select "Programs/Apps and Features" (you may need to select System first). In both cases, a list of the programs installed on your PC will appear.

Now select Abel from the list, and click "Change/Remove" or "Uninstall/Change"; you will be asked to confirm that you want to uninstall Abel, and if you do so Abel will be uninstalled.

This removal process will only delete folders that were copied to your computer when you originally installed Abel. Updates of Abel may have copied method files to C:\ProgramData\AbelSim; you can delete this folder after uninstalling Abel. Abel and/or Windows may also have made local copies of Abel option files etc for each user that has used Abel on the PC: if you want to delete these, you can typically find them in an AbelSim subfolder of C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local (on XP also look in <username>\Local Settings); on Vista/W7/W8/W10 also look in <username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files(x86)).

See also:

  Welcome to Abel for Windows
  End user licence and guarantee
  Restrictions, features and bugs