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DavidZentner
Apr 25, 2022Copper Contributor
Program Uninstalling By Iteself
I've installed a piece of software on my computer. The last 3 weeks the software has been susccessfully removed each sunday at 1am. I install it again, the next week it's done. I've looked at event l...
Scottil
Apr 24, 2026Brass Contributor
A possible source of the mystery is a debloating or system optimization tool. For example, the Windows 11 utility Winhance creates a scheduled task called BloatRemoval after use. Its job is to run every time the system starts to ensure selected software stays uninstalled. This matches your experience perfectly: a removal task set to run periodically, which could easily be weekly, that deletes targeted software in the background.