When the adaptation for PC just came out, we all saw it as an advance, although today perhaps it was not the great success that we all thought. No matter what reason you have, here we will teach you how to block, uninstall or completely remove any WhatsApp program from your Windows 7, 8 or 10 PC.
How to know if my phone is connected to WhatsApp Web
To make sure we are connected, we simply look at the WhatsApp settings. We go to the application, and press the three points that are in the upper right corner; there we click on ‘WhatsApp Web’. If the device is linked, we will find a screen with a section that says ‘Device status’; under it, the information of the search engine and platform that we are using.
How to log out of WhatsApp Web from PC
Once we open the application on the web, we can display a different format. On the right screen, we can see the usual WhatsApp format, where the three adjustment points are also found. We press there We click on ‘Close session’ and the account is automatically unlinked.
How to close WhatsApp Web from my cell phone
We go to the settings by pressing the three points in the upper corner, we click on ‘WhatsApp Web’ > ‘Device status’; we click the platform in which we have opened the account, and a pop-up window will open. We select ‘Sign out’, and we verify on the PC.
How to block WhatsApp Web on a computer
Blocking WhatsApp on a PC with a Windows operating system is extremely easy, this option is considered a bit drastic, although effective to maintain parental control of children over a PC or it can also be useful to block work PCs and prevent the different employees are distracted using WhatsApp from the PC.
- The first thing is to put the address ‘C:WindowsSystem32driversetc’.
- From the ‘Notepad’ we will execute the file Hosts. We can also use any other text app.
- With this we are going to associate the subdomain ‘web.whatsapp.com’ to the IP address 128.0.0.1.
- This will take care that from now on when trying to open WhatsApp Web from any browser, it will give us an error on the PC, as a result of the blocking that we have just carried out.
Although this method looks complicated, it is not. In addition to its simplicity, it will guarantee that WhatsApp will not be able to be used from that computer with any browser that we have available.
How to uninstall WhatsApp Web from PC
- We open the Windows control panel, to do this we press the key with the Windows logo on our keyboard plus the ‘R’ key, then we will enter the term ‘control’.
- Once we do the previous step, a screen will be displayed in which we will select ‘Programs’.
- Then we will click where it says ‘Programs and Features’.
- Once we are in “Programs and Features”. We must locate the option ‘Uninstall a program’
- By pressing ‘Uninstall a program’ a list of the programs that are on our PC will be displayed, we select WhatsApp and click on the ‘Uninstall’ option that will be found at the top of the screen.
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The program will be uninstalled automatically, we will be able to observe in the aforementioned list, that indeed, it is no longer within the programs installed on the PC.
We can carry out this series of steps in any of the Windows 7, 8 or 10 operating systems, with these simple steps we will be able to eliminate the WhatsApp program from our computer.
Other options to uninstall WhatsApp correctly from your PC
Another option that we have is about using the settings menu, although this option is only available for the Windows 8 and 10 operating systems.
- The first thing is to click on start (the button with the Windows logo) and select the gear icon that will appear on the screen.
- In the screen that will appear after the previous step, we will look for the option that says ‘System’, this will show us a screen in which we will look for ‘Applications and Features’.
- After this we select the WhatsApp application and then the ‘Modify’ and ‘Uninstall’ options will be enabled, our goal today is to uninstall the program, so we click on ‘Uninstall’.
- A confirmation message will appear specifying that all the information related to the application will be deleted, we will press ‘Uninstall’ again.
After following these steps we will have effectively uninstalled WhatsApp from our system, whether it is Windows 8 or Windows 10.
Why delete WhatsApp?
Today it has become an essential telecommunications tool, having the ability to send voice messages, images, text documents, etc. WhatsApp is part of our daily life.
The problem with your computer program is that it is totally unnecessary. We can easily enter from the web without having the app installed by logging in through your phone on WhatsApp Web. In addition, from our mobile phone we have to have access to the internet for everything to work and the connection to be verified.
That is why having the program on our computer is actually unnecessary, we hope that these procedures have helped you and that if you know of someone who needs it, they will send it to you.
