How to uninstall Genymotion Desktop completely (purge)?

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To purge Genymotion Desktop, follow the procedure corresponding to your operating system:

Windows

1. Remove all virtual devices (right-click on the virtual device > Delete). 2. Open Control Panel > Programs and Features. 3. Right-click on the Genymotion Desktop application and select Uninstall. 4. Follow the uninstallation steps. 5. Delete the directory %LOCALAPPDATA%\Genymobile. 6. Run regedit and delete the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Genymobile.

To remove all programs used by Genymotion Desktop, you may also uninstall the VirtualBox application from "Control Panel > Programs and Features".

macOS

1. Open Applications. 2. Drag and drop the Genymotion Desktop application to the trash folder. 3. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the Genymotion Shell application. 4. Delete Genymotion Desktop data directories by running:

 rm -rf $HOME/.Genymobile
 rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.genymobile.Genymotion.plist
 rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.genymobile.genymotion.savedState
 

Linux

1. Delete Genymotion Desktop installation directory. 2. If installed in your home folder, use this command:

 rm -r $HOME/genymotion
 

3. If installed in a different folder, replace $HOME by Genymotion Desktop installation full path.

> Important: <<<ROZZ-IMPORTANT>>> If you installed Genymotion Desktop for all users, with sudo, you need to delete the /opt/genymobile folder with command sudo rm -rf /opt/genymobile > <<</ROZZ-IMPORTANT>>>

4. Delete Genymotion Desktop local data directories by running:

 rm -rf $HOME/.Genymobile $HOME/.config/Genymobile/Genymotion.conf
 

5. Delete Genymotion Desktop launcher:

 sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/genymobile-genymotion.desktop