Uninstall of XAMPP fails at “No script engine for file extension”

Question

While uninstalling XAMPP it shows the following errors:

Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension ".vbs".

XAMPP uninstall not OK

Press any key to continue . . .

How do I uninstall it?

Answer 1

If you've not installed any program from it as service (MySQL or Apache), you can stop the server by running C:\xampp\xampp_stop.exe and remove the directory C:\xampp (or whatever you've installed XAMPP to).