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How To Use Citrix Receiver Clean Up Utility

Citrix has came up with an utility to fully uninstalled and removed Citrix Receiver from a workstation / server. 

Based on their article, this utility must be used in one or more of these situations :

  • Receiver or Online Plug-in is installed but the old components still exist or creating abnormal scenarios.
  • Receiver or Online Plug-in components must be cleaned before troubleshooting or installation.
  • Receiver or Online Plug-in are unable to function and the product is unable to install or uninstall.


However, not all OS can use this utility. It only can be applied to these products :

  • Windows 8 32-bit and 64-bit
  • Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit
  • Windows 2008 32-bit and 64-bit
  • Windows 2008 R2
  • Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit




Description :
To uninstall Citrix Receiver, and perform cleanup so there is  no trace of Citrix Receiver inside the workstation / server.



How To Do :
  1.  Right click at Citrix Receiver Clean Up Utility, and choose Run as administrator.

  2. Key in 1 and press Enter to properly remove Citrix Receiver.

  3. Running….
  4. Once completed, you will see this screen. Press 1 to reboot the workstation.

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