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Tor Browser does not affect any of the existing software or settings on your computer. Uninstalling Tor Browser will not affect your system’s software or settings.
Tor Browser does not affect any of the existing software or settings on your computer. Removing it from your system is simple:
Removing Tor Browser from your system is simple:
First locate your Tor Browser folder.
1. Locate your Tor Browser folder. The default location on Windows is the Desktop; on macOS it is the Applications folder. On Linux, there is no default location, however the folder will be named "tor-browser_en-US" if you are running the English Tor Browser.
- The default location on **Windows** is the Desktop or wherever you extracted the Tor Browser archive to.
2. Delete the Tor Browser folder.
- On **Linux**, there is no default location, however the folder will be named "tor-browser_en-US" if you installed the English Tor Browser.
3. Empty your Trash
*Optional:* If you registered Tor as an application, now is the time to unregister it.
It provides a commandline option for that:
Note that your operating system’s standard “Uninstall” utility is not used.
```
./Browser/start-tor-browser --unregister-app
```
Tor Browser does not install itself in the classical sense of applications.
You can just delete it.
- On **macOS** drag the Tor Browser application icon from the *Applications* folder to the trash as you would to uninstall any other application.
Now delete the directory which contains the Tor Browser profile.
If the Tor Browser application is in the Applications folder, the directory to remove is
```
~/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data
```
If it's not, the directory is next to the Tor Browser application.
To get to it, press cmd-shift-g while in Finder and copy/paste that directory into the box that appears.
Now empty your Trash and it is removed from your system.
Note that your operating system's standard *Uninstall* utility is not used and uninstalling Tor Browser does not affect your system's software or settings.