PLEASE: Pin Instructions on Uninstalling the Gaijin.net Launcher

[Tom Vertigo]

I've personally uninstalled it as I've lost interest in the game but there are plenty of others who do not want software to persist on their system after removing a game from their system.
To remove (Win10):
- Uninstall WarThunder via Steam
- Press Windows key and type "%appdata%" and press enter. Locate the Gaijin folder and delete it. I personally used AVG to "shred" the files. Make sure when you do this that the Gaijin.net launcher is closed.
- Restart Windows
- Press Windows key and type "regedit" and press enter. Click "Yes"
- Click "Edit", hover down to "Find" and click.
- Search "Gaijin" and "Gaijin.net" and remove entries from this publisher ONLY. You are doing this AT YOUR OWN RISK. Editing/Deleting registry files can make a mess of your system if you are unsure of what you are doing. To remove entries, simply right-click them and "Delete" them.
- Search "War Thunder" or any other Gaijin game you have installed and remove entries from that publisher as well.

I'm not going to band-wagon and say it's malware but I am going to say that it's wrong to have no means to uninstall when I have no need for the software.

[relliK]

there are a few things you forgot to mention:

1. the title is kind of misleading... there may be people interested in removing / uninstalling the gaijin.net agent while keeping the game itself. those instructions should only be used after uninstalling the game itself.

2. after uninstalling War Thunder on Steam you also need to go to the Steam games folder and manually delete the War Thunder game folder... otherwise there may be several gigabyte of data remaining on your harddisk (reports on this differ though... still worth checking)

1. removing the Gaijin entries on the registry may affect other Gaijin games like Crossout and Star Conflict as well - so if you got any other Gaijin games installed better dont touch those entries.

4. depending on what you did before uninstalling the game you may still have a gaijin.net agent entry in the windows startup... though when the gaijin agent folder / files have been deleted this doesn't really matter (however there may be an entry in the windows event log about a missing file)

5. after going through those instructions there will still be some gaijin and War Thunder folder (and files) left on the system... though they are not related to the gaijin agent.

6. another (more easy) way to get rid of the gaijin agent after uninstalling the game from Steam is to download the standalone client installer from the warthunder.com website, install the launcher and then go into the windows software control panel and uninstall the launcher (or War Thunder) again - this will remove all the files (and afaik also the registry entries as long as there arent any other gaijin games installed).

this works because the standalone client is using the windows installer while the Steam install is not. edit: #2 still applies though - the standalone client uninstaller will ofc not remove the files in the Steam games folder (unless it got installed into exactly that folder) so they will still have to be removed manually (thats a Steam issue not War Thunder)

[ContraMuffin]

Thanks, really helped me out. I think it's extremely scummy to not include an uninstaller with your software.

[uɐɐılʎʇs]

Was an easy(enough) fix early on. Find all the folders, delete, recreate with exact same names, put restrictions on change/edit etc of those files so they cant be modified even the slightest. Watch launcher fail to replace those unmodifiable files.

Check running processes after each patch incase they change location.

Its just their updater, so in no way effects gameplay whether those files are there or not.

[Jaes]

Praise be to the Necro

[EDSmike74]

Easy fast and efficient --> Revo Uninstaller.
To eradicate all.

[Humpfester]

^^What he said^^

[ErickaUnlimited]

Please refrain from necroing old threads.

Locking this up now.