How to remove/reset Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Insider Build 14316
Solution 1
The following answer only applies to WSL on Windows 10 1703 and 1607. WSL on Windows 10 1709+ can be installed from within the Windows Store UWP application.
If you want to remove and reset the Linux subsystem, open a command prompt with elevated permissions and enter the following commands:
lxrun /uninstall /full
lxrun /install
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Solution 2
I was having problems with installing BASH, it would always hang at "Expanding Filesystem...". When I ran
lxrun /uninstall /full
it would error out.
To fix this, I did a reboot. Ran this again as soon as the computer came back up. This worked. Then I found there is an issue related to installing the BASH prompt.
And someone brought up about pagefiles. I have four drives and three of them had pagefiles. I set the pagefile to one drive and set it to be automatically managed. Rebooted the computer. Then I was able to install the BASH prompt for Windows, but instead of using lxrun /install
I used
bash.exe -c "ps auxf"
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I installed the
Windows Subsystem for Linux
on Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14316. Now I would like to remove it or, better, revert to its factory defaults i.e. as it was when just installed.I tried, to remove it from the "Turn Windows features on or off" windows, with no luck. I tried, to mark it as "off" in the above windows and delete its files manually located in
%USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/lxss
, with no luck.Has anyone succeeded in removing/resetting the Ubuntu user-mode environment?