Find what an app actually left behind.
HiveSweeper maps an installed application's whole footprint — registry keys, folders, services, processes, scheduled tasks — then writes a reviewable PowerShell script to remove it.
Single.exe. No installer, no account.
It inspects and generates. It never deletes anything itself.
HiveSweeper produces a script you read before anything happens — and that script previews by
default, running nothing until you deliberately invoke it with -Execute.
What it does
- Applications — search installed software by name, with version, publisher and uninstall details.
- Store apps — list Microsoft Store and packaged (UWP / MSIX) apps and remove them the supported way, colour-coded by removal safety. System components are refused outright.
- App Overview — one consolidated view of everything related to an app, grouped by machine-wide, current user, and all user profiles.
- Registry browser — a regedit-style browser with deep search; right-click any key to add it as a cleanup step.
- Services, processes and tasks — scoped to the app you selected, not the whole system.
- Installer inspection — point it at an
.exeor.msito read its version, publisher, signature and the correct silent-install switches. - Removal script — collect the steps you want and export a
.ps1you can read, keep or hand to someone else.
Why you can trust what it finds
The risk with a tool like this is a false match — something that looks like it belongs to the app you're removing but is actually part of Windows or another program. HiveSweeper's detection is deliberately conservative about that:
- Name matches must land on a word or CamelCase boundary, so searching for "Systems" will not match "SystemSoundsService".
- Windows built-in components are excluded.
- Shared vendor keys used by several products are down-weighted rather than assumed.
- Every item carries a confidence indicator — green for anchored matches, amber for name matches, red for verify-yourself — and an Inspector panel explaining why it matched.
- Only high-confidence items are pre-selected. Everything else is your call.
Permissions
HiveSweeper builds scripts as a standard user. Actually running a removal touches machine-wide registry, Program Files and other users' profiles, so that is a separate, deliberately elevated PowerShell step that you take yourself.
There is no obfuscation or evasion behaviour anywhere in the tool, which means it is safe to run on managed estates with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or Cyber Essentials Plus controls in place.
Requirements
- Operating system
- Windows 10 or 11
- Installation
- None. A single
HiveSweeper.exe. - Interface
- Fluent nav-rail UI with 8 themes, plus a legacy two-panel view
- Price
- Free