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title: Uninstalling an instance in KIM
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can use [Kentico Installation Manager](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/external-utilities/kentico-installation-manager.md) to uninstall Kentico instances, including their project folders in the file system, websites in IIS and databases on a database server.

1. Select the instance (or multiple instances) that you want to uninstall and click **Uninstall** on the main toolbar.
   - KIM displays a dialog box showing the name and path of the website to be uninstalled.
2. Click **Next**.
3. Choose which parts of the installation you want to uninstall:

   - **Remove all** – removes the instance completely, including its file system folder, IIS website, database and registration in KIM.
   - **Remove only the following items** – removes only the parts of the installation selected by the check boxes below.
     - **file system** – deletes the instance's project folder and files, services (Health Monitor and Scheduler) and diagnostic tools (removes performance counters and event log sources).

       > **Note:** **Note**: [MVC sites](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/mvc-development-overview.md) run using a separate web project from the Kentico administration interface. KIM only deletes MVC project files if they are located within the same folder as the related administration interface project.
     - **IIS** – removes the instance's websites from IIS. If the website is installed in a custom application pool not shared with another website, the pool is deleted as well.
     - **database** – removes the instance's database from the database server.
     - **remove instance from list after successful uninstallation** – unregisters the instance from KIM so that it is no longer visible in the managed instances list.
4. Click **Uninstall**.

KIM displays a log, showing the progress of the uninstallation.