Remove

Uninstall is easy. Leftover associations and a second updater are why it feels haunted.

People remove WPS because ads annoyed them, because IT mandated 365, or because a crash loop will not die. Do it in order or Windows will keep offering WPS for every DOCX.

A calm desk after cleaning up software

Windows

  1. Quit WPS from the tray. Kill leftover wps.exe / et.exe / wpp.exe in Task Manager if they linger.
  2. Settings → Apps → uninstall WPS Office (and any old “Kingsoft Office” tile).
  3. If you installed from Microsoft Store, uninstall that Store app too — website and Store can both exist.
  4. Optional: after backup, delete leftover folders under %appdata%\Kingsoft and %localappdata%\Kingsoft if you want a clean slate. That also deletes local auto-backup copies.
  5. Reset file associations: Settings → Apps → Default apps. Give DOCX back to Word, PDF back to Edge or Acrobat, as you prefer.

Startup: Task Manager → Startup apps. Disable leftover Kingsoft updaters. If a splash screen still appears at login, you missed a second installer. Windows notes · will not open.

macOS

Quit the apps. Drag WPS from Applications to Trash. Check Login Items. Remove leftover containers only if you know what you are deleting — that is also your local recovery cache. Mac.

Linux

Deb: sudo apt remove the wps packages you actually installed, then sudo apt autoremove. RPM: use dnf/yum. Snap: snap remove. Old community packages and a new official Deb on the same box is how launch errors stay after “uninstall.” Linux.

Android and iOS

Long-press → uninstall, or delete from the App Store list. Sign out of WPS Cloud first if you are handing the phone to someone else. Local files in the app sandbox go with it; Drive copies do not.

You still want the files

Uninstall does not delete your Documents folder. Cloud files stay on Kingsoft’s servers until you delete them in the account. Export anything you care about as DOCX/XLSX/PDF before you burn the account. Cloud.