Manually Uninstalling Link

Instruction to manually uninstall Link.

In the case of Link installation if it gets corrupted and uninstall procedure does not work. Follow these steps to manually uninstall Link application.
  1. Open the windows terminal with administrative privileges
  2. Uninstall Link services:
    1. To uninstall Link WEB UI run commands:

      sc stop hcllinkwebui.exe

      sc delete hcllinkwebui.exe

    2. To uninstall Link Application Server Service run commands:

      sc stop HCL-Link

      sc delete HCL-Link

    3. To uninstall Link Redis Service run commands:

      sc stop “redis server for hcl link”

      sc delete “redis server for hcl link”

  3. Cleanup registry (it is recommended to make a backup of the registry keys before modifying the keys).
    1. Run command regedit
    2. Navigate to registry key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HCL\Link
    3. Delete the registry key
    4. Navigate to registry key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Apache Software Foundation\Procrun 2.0\HCL-Link
    5. Delete the registry key
    6. Search for string ‘HCL Link’ Under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
    7. Delete the registry Key containing the String ‘HCL Link’
  4. Restart the computer
  5. Delete the Link installation folder, for example C:\HCL\Link_<version>