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Rellwood · 09-17-2025, 01:42 PM

I was reading a post on reddit where someone is complaining that Calibre leaves a lot of things behind after uninstallation on Windows 11. This is new to me because I have never come across it leaving anything behind.

r/ereader "Is Calibre still "the tool"

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IceburgCastaway
Folks say Calibre is THE tool for ebooks. I say it's the software from hell when it comes to uninstallation from Windows 11. It leaves dozens of entries in the registry that have to be manually deleted one by one otherwise you will continue to see several meaningless calibre related entries remaining in file explorer context menus.

09-17-2025, 01:42 PM	#1
Rellwood Library Breeder (She/Her) Posts: 1,306 Karma: 1937893 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Fullerton, California Device: Paperwhite 2015 (2), PW 2024 (12 GEN), PW 2023 (11 GEN), Scribe (1st)	Does Calibre change the registry in Win 11? I was reading a post on reddit where someone is complaining that Calibre leaves a lot of things behind after uninstallation on Windows 11. This is new to me because I have never come across it leaving anything behind. r/ereader "Is Calibre still "the tool" Comment: IceburgCastaway Folks say Calibre is THE tool for ebooks. I say it's the software from hell when it comes to uninstallation from Windows 11. It leaves dozens of entries in the registry that have to be manually deleted one by one otherwise you will continue to see several meaningless calibre related entries remaining in file explorer context menus. Last edited by Rellwood; 09-17-2025 at 01:45 PM.