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Monday, 19 December 2016

Uninstall Overlook Fing 3.0 from Windows 10

I've been using Fing on my Android for a while and it's been pretty good, so I figured I'd try it on my Windows 10 PC.  I installed the app but it just seemed to hang, so as I have the Android version I figured I'd just use that and uninstall Fing from my PC.

When I tried to use "Programs and Features", the uninstall dialog popped a command window that was trying to call fing.exe with some uninstall flags, but this was just hanging.  I could see the process using process explorer but couldn't stop it.

I eventually figured out (obvious in hindsight) that Fing installs an Overlook version of Winpcap that was preventing the uninstall.  The steps that finally removed Fing from my PC were:


  1. Use "Programs and Features" to remove Overlook Winpcap
  2. Open Powershell as Admin
  3. Run "uninstall.exe" from the fing folder (something like "c:\program file (x86)\overlook.....")

Done.