How to completely remove a module

If you have a conflict with a module then you may need to remove it from your machine.

The remove-module commandlet DOES NOT remove the module from your machine, it only:

Removes modules from the current session.

In other words it reverses:

Import-Module -- which adds modules to the current session.

It does not reverse:

Install-Module -- (with which a "package provider" downloads and installs a module from a "package source")

You need to find where the module sits (each module is a directly full of files) and delete that folder. (Or move it out of harm's way)

get-module -listavailable

Shows you where each of the modules are located,

e.g.

Directory: C:\Users\Agatha\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules
Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Code Owls LLC

...and others.

And the results you see from get-module will depend upon where you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Powershell. And which user.

(A module is a "package" -- a specific type of package which exports a bunch of cmdlets.)

Then delete the files of the module (and the folder it is in, which is named after itself)

How to completely remove a module

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