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I'm using OS Windows

I'm trying to delete jenkins, that was installed as jenkins.war file. I need to delete it, because I made a lot of mistakes while configuring it.

I was trying to run the 

jenkins.war uninstall

but it does not work ( in this occurance the popup window opens and suggest me to select the program which will run this command )

Also I tried to find the jenkins sevice by running the 

service.msc

But there was not this service in the list.

Please help me to resolve this problem :)

Olena Chaban
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  • Possible duplicate of [How to uninstall Jenkins on Windows?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26677637/how-to-uninstall-jenkins-on-windows) – K. B. Mar 18 '18 at 09:08
  • @KristinaBankova i saw that answer. i was trying to do that, but it did not helped – Olena Chaban Mar 18 '18 at 09:30
  • If you made mistakes in Jenkins configurations, deleting JENKINS_HOME folder should be enough. For more info check https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Administering+Jenkins. Jenkins configuration are xml files in JENKINS_HOME folder and its subfolders. – K. B. Mar 18 '18 at 09:52
  • @KristinaBankova i had a problem with user configuration, not with some generall configuration. I just tried to delete a folder, and download again jenkins.war, started it , but the result was the same - it took me to the page on localhost with same configurations that i had – Olena Chaban Mar 18 '18 at 10:29
  • http://prntscr.com/iss870 here you can see that there is no any 'jenkins' service running :\ so i cant delete it from services – Olena Chaban Mar 18 '18 at 10:31
  • jenkins.war uninstall also does not works – Olena Chaban Mar 18 '18 at 10:32
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    Could you please give more details about the user configuration issue and which folder did you try to delete? Which Jenkins version is the war file? – K. B. Mar 18 '18 at 11:07

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If you run Jenkins again by java -jar jenkins.war from command line you can find a line like that

Jenkins home directory: C:\Users\martinruan\.jenkins found at: $user.home/.jenkins

Delete the directory .jenkins then you are able reinstall Jenkins.

Quyet Nguyen
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  • This is what fixed my issue. The uninstall command `$/Library/Application\ Support/Jenkins/Uninstall.command` itself does not removes this folder and as a result if you install jenkins again, you would see the same old data/users/jobs configured. – nr5 Sep 24 '19 at 07:42