How to remove/reset Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Insider Build 14316
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00:00 How To Remove/Reset Windows Subsystem For Linux On Windows Insider Build 14316
00:35 Accepted Answer Score 154
01:20 Answer 2 Score 2
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 154
The following answer only applies to WSL on Windows 10 1703 and 1607. WSL on Windows 10 1709+ can be installed from within the Windows Store UWP application.
If you want to remove and reset the Linux subsystem, open a command prompt with elevated permissions and enter the following commands:
lxrun /uninstall /full
lxrun /install
On modern versions of Windows the command to uninstall the default WSL distribution is as follows:
wsl --unregister
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ANSWER 2
Score 2
I was having problems with installing BASH, it would always hang at "Expanding Filesystem...". When I ran
lxrun /uninstall /full
it would error out.
To fix this, I did a reboot. Ran this again as soon as the computer came back up. This worked. Then I found there is an issue related to installing the BASH prompt.
And someone brought up about pagefiles. I have four drives and three of them had pagefiles. I set the pagefile to one drive and set it to be automatically managed. Rebooted the computer. Then I was able to install the BASH prompt for Windows, but instead of using lxrun /install I used
bash.exe -c "ps auxf"