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Closes: #9404

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Thanks for looking at this. Had forgotten that file existed until recently. Couple of suggestions, but also good to go if you don't want to take them.

<h3>To uninstall the IDE</h3>
<p>Deinstallation depends on the way you installed NetBeans.</p>
<p>If you are using the ZIP distribution just delete the extracted folder and
you are done.</p>
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We might not want to say "and you are done" here? Because with most of these options, including installers, you'll still have user and cache dirs in place.

Maybe an additional paragraph?

After removing or uninstalling the IDE you might still have user and cache directories on the system that you may wish to remove (see below).

used to store your user settings, options and runtime data for personal development
servers. On Microsoft Windows systems, this directory is generally found at
<code>C:\Users\</code><i>user-id</i><code>\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\</code><i>version</i>.
On Solaris and Linux, this directory is found at
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Not sure we need Solaris?! 😄 Possibly change title to NetBeans IDE user and cache directories? And maybe add a note before the "On Microsoft Windows..." sentence that the location of both can be found in the Help / About dialog?

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mbien commented May 29, 2026

if the css isn't used for other things, we could also make the font a little larger.

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Thanks for comments, updated text and decided to ditch existing CSS and replace with a minimal styling more in line with the current homepage.

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README.html has incorrect uninstall instructions for Linux.

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