How To Uninstall — Wsl [repack]

Alex was thorough. He opened diskpart as Admin and typed:

select vdisk file="C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\disk.vhdx" detach vdisk The virtual hard disk disconnected. He then ran the Windows Disk Cleanup tool as administrator, clicked "Clean up system files," and checked in the list. One final purge. how to uninstall wsl

'wsl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Alex leaned back. The fan on his laptop spun down. The 40 gigabytes of phantom data were gone. No more grep in the wrong window. No more mysterious init processes. The ghost was dead. Alex was thorough

For six months, Alex had loved WSL. It was the perfect bridge between his Windows gaming rig and his developer need for a Linux terminal. But lately, his SSD was groaning. Every time he opened PowerShell, a forgotten Ubuntu instance would spin up its background services. His docker-desktop was orphaned, and a legacy Debian distribution he’d installed once for a tutorial was eating 12 gigabytes of space. It was time. The ghost in the terminal had to go. One final purge

wsl --terminate Ubuntu wsl --unregister Ubuntu A pause. Then, the confirmation: Unregistering... The distribution was gone. Not just deleted— unregistered . Its file system, its home folder, its bash history—poof. He did the same for Debian and docker-desktop . The list was now empty.

One last reboot. He opened PowerShell. He typed wsl hopefully, desperately.

wsl --list --verbose The screen returned a ghostly list: