{"id":75551,"date":"2015-12-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/12\/22\/powertip-uninstall-module-with-powershell-5\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:35","slug":"powertip-uninstall-module-with-powershell-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-uninstall-module-with-powershell-5\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Uninstall Module with PowerShell 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to uninstall a Windows PowerShell module.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I easily uninstall a Windows PowerShell module?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the <b>Uninstall-Module<\/b> cmdlet to remove anything discovered by using <b>Find-Module<\/b>. For example, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to permanently remove the <b>LocalAccount<\/b> module, use:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Uninstall-Module LocalAccount<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/dr_scripto-102x150.gif\" alt=\" \"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to uninstall a Windows PowerShell module. &nbsp;How can I easily uninstall a Windows PowerShell module? &nbsp;Use the Uninstall-Module cmdlet to remove anything discovered by using Find-Module. For example, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to permanently remove the LocalAccount module, use: Uninstall-Module LocalAccount<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-75551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to uninstall a Windows PowerShell module. &nbsp;How can I easily uninstall a Windows PowerShell module? &nbsp;Use the Uninstall-Module cmdlet to remove anything discovered by using Find-Module. For example, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to permanently remove the LocalAccount module, use: Uninstall-Module LocalAccount<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}