Unknown origin of Cypress, no uninstaller, not a node user

[TilKenneth]

Current behavior

Cypress 10.11.0 existing on my computer, filetimes claim since 25.07.2023 (dd.mm.yyyy).

Desired behavior

In this situation, as expected, a) uninstall.exe, b) uninstallable entry in currently "Installed Apps", formerly 'Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features'.

Cypres.exe does have a digital signatur (‎thumbprint: 1961d209c4d95ab0940b056f312f0aded17b0f15, Validity from ‎tue ‎15. ‎juni ‎2021 16:31:48, to ‎fri ‎14. ‎juni ‎2024 16:31:48), but its the same name.

Test code to reproduce

Browsing C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Cypress\Cache\10.11.0\Cypress.

Cypress Version

10.11.0

Node version

I don't node.

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Version 10.0.22631.4317

Debug Logs

I need to know how (by your own tools/uninstaller), or where to clean up, what filenames to look for, registry changes (unknowingly may be changed).

Other

I don't do node, the only node I know i have "touched" is locked safely inside inside a docker-container, and that isnt running most of the time.

Don't know where your product came from (into my pc), why, who, or really when, via what. I don't know about your product, except no uninstall.exe, for all I know you have a good product, if the number of issues is a fair enough metric to go by, actively enough used.

I dont do yarn, gem, gum, nim, npm, mnp ...etc, Re #29478 to https://docs.cypress.io/guides/getting-started/installing-cypress#Installing

Searched for 'remove', only 1 place https://docs.cypress.io/faq/questions/using-cypress-faq

Not relevant; https://docs.cypress.io/guides/cloud/integrations/source-control/github#Uninstall-the-Cypress-GitHub-app

Checked VSCode' extensions; https://docs.cypress.io/guides/tooling/IDE-integration#Visual-Studio-Code

Also found #26283

But I am not a voluntary user. Thanks in advance for understanding.

[MikeMcC399]

@TilKenneth

You should be able to resolve your issue by deleting the Windows directories

• %LOCALAPPDATA%\Cypress
• %APPDATA\Cypress

[TilKenneth]

I 7-Zip'ped the mentioned directories, deleted the directories, time went by and no unexpected events as result.

There were some firewall rules, they needed to be removed aswell. Discovered only a few days ago. They were identified by the path to the mentioned locations above. I was not able to provide a removal script for automation.

There are a few remnants in the Registry, appears to be part of Windows' housekeeping, or mitigations of sorts, as paths were located in subdirectories of the mentioned locations above.

Examples

• \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AlignedHistogramBucketExemplarReservoir.js\{e428c6ff-dd67-2324-c181-46687e0ccc2f}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\createBatchingExecutor.d.ts\{917cf911-9a0d-1512-e3ae-edb7809697ba}

But my subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options is literally flooded from .log files, picture files .jpg, PDF/HTML, to executables and scripts.

Thank you.

[MikeMcC399]

@TilKenneth

• Firewall rules would have been added manually and they would depend on which Firewall is active / installed.
• The entries in the Windows Registry are also not put there by Cypress, at least not directly.

In the meantime a documentation section Uninstall Cypress has been added that details the manual steps necessary to uninstall.