There are various reasons to uninstall SAS from your machine. This SAS Note contains references to existing SAS Notes to help you choose the best method for your scenario.

• To completely remove all versions of SAS from your operating system, see:

SAS Note 37352: The procedure for completely uninstalling SAS^® software releases 8.2, 9.1.3, 9.2 and 9.3 from a Windows operating environment



• To manually uninstall SAS 9.3 from your machine and SAS 9.3 is the only release of SAS on your machine, see one of the following notes:
• For a Basic installation, see SAS Note 44362: Removing SAS^® 9.3 in Windows operating environments (for Basic installations only)
• For a Planned installation, see SAS Note 44376: Removing SAS^® 9.3 in Windows operating environments (for planned installations/deployments only)


• To manually remove SAS 9.2 from your machine and ONLY if SAS 9.2 is the only release of SAS on your machine, see one of these notes:
• SAS Note 33239: SAS^® 9.2 Foundation TS1M0 must be uninstalled in a certain order
• SAS Note 36346: SAS^® 9.2 Foundation TS2M0 must be uninstalled in a certain order


• To manually remove SAS 9.1.3 from your machine and ONLY if SAS 9.1.3 is the only release of SAS on your machine, see:

SAS Note 18453: How to uninstall SAS^® 9.1.3 and the SAS^® BI components on the Microsoft Windows platform if SAS 9.1.3 is the ONLY release of SAS installed



• To uninstall SAS 8.2, see:

SAS Note 13974 "How do I uninstall SAS 8.2?"



• To remove SAS 9.3 and keep the other version(s) of SAS installed, see:

SAS Note 46922: Removing SAS^® 9.3 on Microsoft Windows operating environments when you have other versions of SAS installed on your computer



• To remove SAS 9.2 and keep the other version(s) of SAS installed, see:

SAS Note 32077: Removing SAS^® 9.2 Foundation in Microsoft Windows operating environments when you have other versions of SAS Foundation installed on your computer

SAS Notes about Silent/Quiet Uninstallations

SAS Note 46663: Quiet uninstallation of the SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office, SAS/IML^® Studio, and SAS^® Rapid Predictive Modeler

SAS Note 18095: Silent uninstall tips for SAS^® Foundation 9.1.3 for Windows

SAS Note 39894: Using the SAS^® Uninstall Wizard to remove SAS^® 9.2 from Microsoft Windows operating environments

SAS Note 18563: How to perform a silent uninstall of SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® 4.1

Known Issues with Uninstalling

SAS Note 42510: The Version Jar Repository is not removed in SAS^® 9.3 when you uninstall SAS^® AppDev Studio™ in Windows operating environments

SAS Note 43232: To uninstall the SAS^® Rapid Predictive Modeler you also need to select both SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® and the SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office

SAS Note 45258: Errors occur in SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® 4.3 after you uninstall SAS^® 9.2

SAS Note 31385: Errors occur when you uninstall SAS^® 9.2 (TS1M0) from Windows XP operating systems (SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp)

SAS^® Documentation

• SAS Deployment Wizard and SAS Deployment Manager 9.3: User's Guide (Search for uninstall.)
• Uninstalling the SAS Intelligence Platform from the SAS(R) 9.3 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide
• SAS Deployment Wizard's User Guide for SAS 9.2 (Search for uninstall.)
• Uninstalling the SAS Intelligence Platform from the SAS(R) 9.2 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide
• User Installation Guide for SAS^® 9.1.3 Foundation for Microsoft^® Windows^® (Search for uninstall.)
• Administrator Guide for SAS^® 9.1.3 Foundation for Microsoft^® Windows^® (Search for uninstall.)
• SAS^® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform Installation Guide (Search for uninstall.)
• Installation Instructions for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of the SAS^® System for Microsoft^® Windows^®




Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64
		OS/2
		Microsoft Windows 8
		Microsoft Windows 95/98
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
		Microsoft Windows 2012
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
		Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit
		Windows 7 Enterprise x64
		Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
		Windows 7 Home Premium x64
		Windows 7 Professional 32 bit
		Windows 7 Professional x64
		Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
		Windows 7 Ultimate x64
		Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
		Windows Vista
		Windows Vista for x64

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.