How to Uninstall All Apple Applications including iTunes completely

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If you have installed iTunes to manage your music, your iPhone, iPad or your iPod, you may have noticed that the software was cumbersome and slowed down your computer.

Indeed, when you install iTunes on your computer, while many other Apple software is installed at the same time: Hello, QuickTime, Apple Mobile Device Support Apple Software Update, Apple Application Support, etc..

Some of these software runs as a service and work continuously on your computer, while consuming resources (CPU, memory) and slowing down Windows.

Or if you have opted for another media player lighter and is compatible with Apple devices, like Foobar2000 for example, and you uninstall iTunes, other programs and services of Apple are still present on your computer!

Find out in this guide how to completely uninstall iTunes, Apple's other software and all the traces they leave on your hard disk and the Windows registry.

Save this artist:

Before uninstalling iTunes, you should save in a safe place all the music purchased from the iTunes Store or retrieved from your CDs and your playlists.

• In iTunes, click the File menu. Click Library and then click Save to Disk.
  
  
• Verify that Back up entire iTunes library and playlists "is selected.
  
  
• Insert a blank CD or DVD into your drive and click the Save button.
  
  
• Once the burn is complete, click OK. Your music and playlists will be saved. You can retrieve them easily with iTunes or any other media player software.

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Using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall the Apple software:

Revo Uninstaller is a freeware that allows you to uninstall iTunes, Apple's other programs and their traces on your computer. You can download it from here.

• Once it is downloaded , run the installer.
  
• After a few seconds, Revo Uninstaller list all software installed on your computer. To better highlight those from Apple, click the arrow to the right of the View menu and click Details.
  
• Click on the column to sort the software company by the name of its publisher.
  
• All Apple software are now grouped and identified by the company Apple Inc..
  
• Apple software for each of the list you will have to do the following manipulations. For example, click the right mouse button on the iTunes software and click Uninstall.
  
• Click OK.
  
• Select Advanced and click Next.
  
• The uninstaller software is then executed. Follow him to uninstall it.
  
• After uninstalling "official" finished, click Finish, but do not restart your computer.
  
• Return to Revo Uninstaller, and click Next.
  
• The registry is then analyzed so that your hard drive for files or keys "forgotten". Click Next.
  
• Click Select All and then click Remove.
  
• Click Yes then click Next. The forgotten elements in the registry are erased.
  
• The list of remaining files and folders found on your hard disk is displayed. Click Select All and then click Delete.
  
• Click Yes to confirm the release of the trash files.
  
• Click Next and then Finish.
  
• Close Revo Uninstaller then restart your computer before starting the operation with other Apple software in Revo Uninstaller.

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Remove the remaining files:

Although Revo Uninstaller deleted files and folders forgotten by Apple during the uninstall, there may be other files created by iTunes have been forgotten. Here's how to find and delete them. Note that if you did not uninstall software you want Apple to continue to use it properly (like Safari for example), you should avoid performing the following manipulations.

• Above all, open Windows Explorer by clicking the Start menu and click Computer and click on the Tools menu (press the Alt key if the menu is not displayed) and click Folder Options.
  
• Open the View tab and select Show files, hidden folders and drives. Confirm.
  
• Then open the folder:
  

  C: \ Users \ yourname \ AppData \ Roaming

• Delete files Apple Computer and Apple still have empty folders and files. Just click on it with the right mouse button and click Delete.
  
• Confirm the setting to Yes to the basket.
  
• Repeat the operation in the following folders:
  

  C: \ Users \ yourname \ AppData \ Local

  C: \ Users \ yourname \ AppData \ LocalLow

• It'll then have to empty the Trash by clicking on its icon on the desktop with the right mouse button and select Empty Trash command.
  
• Finally Confirm with Yes.

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Check the traces in the registry:

Despite cleaning Revo Uninstaller, some keys may remain in the registry. Here's how to remove them with the freeware CCleaner .

• Run CCleaner by double clicking its shortcut on the desktop.
  
• Click Register.
  
• Then click on Check for errors.
  
• The software then detects any errors Registry, which keys Apple forgotten. Click Fix selected errors.
  
• Click Yes and click Save to create a backup of what will be deleted from the registry.
  
• Click Fix all errors selected.
  
• Then click Close.
  
• You can finally close CCleaner. There remains then no trace of iTunes and other Apple software on your computer.