How To Remove All Mods From Vortex

This content applies to Vortex 0.16.viii and to a higher place.

If y'all wish to stop using Vortex, follow the recommended steps below to practice so in the safest fashion.

1 Optional Steps
- one.1 Delete installed mods from Vortex
- ane.2 Delete or Move downloaded athenaeum
- i.3 Purge your mods
2 Uninstall the Vortex application

Optional Steps

These steps are not required but for a full removal of your mods, you can follow some or all of these steps.

Delete installed mods from Vortex

If you want to stop using Vortex entirely, you may likewise want to remove all mods installed by Vortex. This will clear out the install path of all files Vortex has installed. The safest fashion to do this is every bit follows:

In the Mods department, click on one of your files and press Ctrl + A to select all mods. This will reveal the batch menu at the bottom of the window.

From hither, click the "Remove" button. In the delete popup, you will have the option to besides remove the archive which was used to install the modern. After confirming, Vortex may take a few seconds to delete the requested files. Y'all will demand to do this for each game Vortex is managing.

Note: Leaving the annal intact will not remove information technology from the mods view in Vortex, it will be marked as uninstalled instead.

Delete or Move downloaded archives

If you did not choose to remove archives in the previous stride or you would like to go along the athenaeum for reinstalling mods in future, y'all can delete them or move them to a new location from within Vortex's download folder.

Navigate to the Settings > Download tab and beneath the "Download Path" header there is a clickable link that will open your download path binder. From hither you can delete the files or motion them to a new location.

Purge your mods

This step volition remove all the files/folders created by Vortex from the mods directory of your game. This can be useful to remove leftover empty directories from mods Vortex had managed.

For this option to appear, you lot will need to enable advanced mode.

Clicking the "Purge" icon will remove all Vortex managed items from your game mods folder.

Uninstall the Vortex application

To remove to Vortex, you will uninstall it from your computer similar any other app.

See this Microsoft Support article for an example.