Uninstall Thunderbird 10 – How to Remove Thunderbird 10 From Your PC?

Tips to Uninstall Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a very popular functional email client and RSS feed reader like Outlook Express from Microsoft. Mozilla Thunderbird of course is more powerful than Outlook Express because Thunderbird supports all popular protocols including POP, IMAP and SMTP. and moreover it is available in all platforms while Microsoft Outlook is only available for Windows (and now on Mac OS X too). With powerful email-filter, Thunderbird is able to get rid of junk mail precisely using Bayesian filtering and detects scams. The main reason of uninstalling Thunderbird is that it will also consume significant amount of system resources when running, change your system core settings and most seriously, it sometimes fail to receive e-mails with large attachment. Now, we are going to talk about how to uninstall Thunderbird to meet the requirements from a part of PC uers like you. Most of the users are confused to remove Thunderbird because it has no its own uninstall utility. It seems like that the only way to uninstall Thunderbird is to use Windows Add/Remove Programs. However, you have to delete the leftovers of it after using Windows Add/Remove Programs. It is really a time-consuming issue.

This video would show you how to uninstall Thunderbird step by step.

How to Uninstall Thunderbird Manually?

Traditional Uninstall:

Use Windows Add/Remove Programs to uninstall Thunderbird.

1. Click on “Start” — “Control Panel” — “Add/remove Programs”

2. Highlight Thunderbird and click “Remove”.

3. Click “Next” to proceed.

4. Click “Uninstall” to continue the removal.

Note: Things have not been done yet. You need to clean & delete all leftovers and associated files of Thunderbird.

Here are some of the registry entries of Thunderbird:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{29F458BE-8866-11D5-A3DD-00B0D0F3BAA7}\LocalServer32, Default – “C:\Program Files\Mozilla TB\TB.exe” /MAPIStartup
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6EDCD38E-8861-11D5-A3DD-00B0D0F3BAA7}\InProcServer32, Default – C:\Program Files\Mozilla TB\MapiProxy_InUse.dll
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Clients\Mail, Default – Mozilla Thunderbird

Some Files/Folders of Thunderbird:

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\chrome
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\chrome\icon
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\chrome\icon\default
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\components
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\messager
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\dictionaries
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\extensions
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\jsp
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\jsloader
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\jsloader\resource
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\uninstall
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\Mapiproxy.dll

You can go to: “Start” — “Run” — Type in “regedit” and delete the related reigstry entries manually.

By performing all of the steps above, you should have Thunderbird 10 successfully removed from your computer. But sometimes this method couldn’t work due to some complex problems existing in computer system or virus, malware that taking action on your computer. If you still cannot remove it by using manual method, or you think it is too complicate for you to approch that yourself, you can try to use some third party uninstaller like Max Uninstaller to help you remove then unwanted programs.

How to Uninstall Thunderbird Automatically?

Advanced Uninstall:

Use Max Uninstaller to unintall Thunderbird for you easily and completely.

Step 1. Download Max Uninstall from here and install it on your PC.( Only takes you serval seconds for downloading and installing)

Step 2. Please highlight Thunderbird and click “Run Analysis”.

Step 3. Click the “Compelet Uninstall” botton to remove the main exe file of Thunderbird.

Step 4. Follow the uninstall wizard and click “Scan Leftovers” to find out all of the registry entries and files of Thunderbird.

Step 5. Finally, the last step is to click “Delete Leftovers” to remove it completely.

It is suggested to keep a good habit of removing any programs on your computer by the uninstall tool but not the windows add/remove program, because an uninstall tool can be more professional and responsible for the program removal, it always can fully remove those related files, registry entries and those useless entries which can slow down your system performance. Max Uninstaller is such a quite good uninstallers that can keep your computer free from any uninstall errors.