Alex opened PowerShell as Administrator. He knew you couldn’t just delete folders. WSL was a parasite—a beautiful, useful parasite that burrowed deep into the kernel. He typed the first incantation:

After the reboot, Alex ran wsl --status . The command was dead. Good. But his disk space hadn't changed. He opened File Explorer and navigated to the hidden lair: C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Packages He deleted any folder starting with CanonicalGroupLimited or TheDebianProject . Then, the real grave: C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Docker and C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\wsl . He held Shift + Delete.

One last reboot. He opened PowerShell. He typed wsl hopefully, desperately.

Alex was thorough. He opened diskpart as Admin and typed: