No uninstall documentation for the native Claud Code build (Windows)

Resolved 💬 15 comments Opened Aug 31, 2025 by eikowagenknecht Closed Jan 6, 2026

Environment

  • Claude CLI version: 1.0.98
  • Operating System: Windows 11

Bug Description

While installing Claud Code is easy (irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex), there's no documented way to uninstall it when it was installed that way.

I tried to return to the npm version (reasons not relevant here) by just deleting ~/.claude and ~/.local folders and then installing the npm version, but that only leads to the errors:

Directory C:\Users\<user>\.local\bin does not exist
Claude command not found at C:\Users\<user>\.local\bin\claude.exe

Neither the AI agent on the antropic page not Claude itself can help with this and I can't see it anywhere in the docs either.

Expected Behavior

It would be nice to have a way to actually uninstall Claud Code native. Or if there is one, have it documented.

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