How do you uninstall Minecraft?

When I open the game, the screen stays at the Mojang sign and then crashes. It has something to do with my texture pack, but I can't start the game to change it and it won't let me delete the texture pack folder alone.

I've already deleted the bin and resources folders in the minecraft folder and downloaded the game again. I opened it but the same problem was still there.

How do I properly perform a clean uninstall of the game?

Solution 1:

To cleanly uninstall Minecraft you need to remove the entire .minecraft folder. If you want to keep your worlds, move the saves folder somewhere else before deleting the folder. You can always drop it back in once you reinstall Minecraft and run it once to re-create the .minecraft folder.

(The program you click isn't really Minecraft itself – it's just the launcher. You can get rid of it too if you want, but deleting it or not is separate from uninstalling Minecraft itself. It doesn't keep any settings or matter much, since it's just a convenience for launching the actual Minecraft program, which is stored in .minecraft. In fact, if you know how, you can start Minecraft without it entirely.)

In particular, I think your texture pack options are causing the crash. I've had that happen before, with an old texture pack crashing the game after I updated it.

I suspect that because, from your other question, it sounds like you were trying to use a 128x texture pack and it was crashing it. By choosing it, that choice is saved in your options.txt file in your .minecraft folder – deleting bin and resources will leave that intact! This option is probably what's crashing Minecraft. (Texture packs that are incompatible with the current version of Minecraft, or which are too large for your computer to handle well, can sometimes crash Minecraft.)

To fix it, open options.txt (using a text editor) and find the line that begins with skin:. It should say "spahx" or something like that. Change the line to:

skin:Default

And then run Minecraft. It should work now, no un/re-install needed.

Solution 2:

Super simple steps to "uninstall" Minecraft:

1. Push [Win]+R, type in %appdata% in the Run field and hit enter.
2. One of the first folders is the .minecraft folder. Delete it.
3. Go to Minecraft's Download page and get yourself a fresh copy of the game.

Keep in mind this deletes everything, including all locally saved games, texture packs, and customized settings/options.

Solution 3:

All you have to do is delete your .minecraft folder and your minecraft launcher.

To get to the .minecraft directory do: Windows key + R and type %appdata% and it should appear there.