How to remove Driver Booster

What is Driver Booster?

Driver Booster is legitimate software that is intended to speed up your computer by cleaning up unnecessary entries from the system registry, downloading and installing the latest updates for your hardware, and so on. However, its strange activity can be categorized as a potentially unwanted one. First of all, Driver Booster is distributed bundled with other applications and, mostly, end-user might not even know about it. You must agree, it gives rise to suspicion. Another unpleasant feature of Driver Boosted is a display of intrusive advertisements that you will see on every webpage you visited. Furthermore, you also may be redirected to some harmful website with dangerous content thus increasing chances of infection. Taking into account all these facts, we recommend you remove Driver Booster as soon as possible to prevent further deterioration of the situation.

How Driver Booster infects your PC?

Driver Booster adware is often distributed through trojans and pop-ups on suspicious websites. You can also get this adware on software crack, file sharing, and torrent websites.
When installing something you’ve just downloaded from the internet, be very careful, check the license agreement properly. Always choose Custom or Advanced installation type, as it can prevent you from having adware on your computer. Make it a rule to read the terms and conditions during the installation of any program you’ve downloaded from the internet.

There are three most common ways of getting Driver Booster on your computer:

1. Bundling method: this method is the most common in malware distribution. Cybercriminals put in the malware to some free software applications. The user downloads this program and installs it, but the malicious program also getting into your computer.
2. Don’t be careless, malware applications can be attached to spam emails.
3. Try to avoid visiting suspicious websites, they can infect your PC with Driver Booster.

How to remove Driver Booster from your computer?

The best and easiest way to remove Driver Booster from your computer is to use a special anti-malware program that has this threat in its database. The program is fully automated, all you need to do is to download and install it. Once you’ve installed an anti-malware application, it will scan your system and remove all the threats.

Norton Antivirus – it scans your computer and detects various threats like Driver Booster, then removes it with all of the related malicious files, folders, and registry keys. After deep scanning of your system, it will easily find and delete Driver Booster.
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How to remove Driver Booster manually

Remove Driver Booster from Control Panel

In order to get rid of Driver Booster, the first thing you need to do is to uninstall a malicious program from your computer. When removing Driver Booster, try to find suspicious recently installed programs and delete them too, as it’s pretty common that any malware comes with some other unwanted programs.

Windows XP:

1. Select Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then choose Add or Remove Programs.
4. Search for Driver Booster.
5. Click Uninstall.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Select Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Choose Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Driver Booster and choose Uninstall.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Select Search.
3. After that choose Apps.
4. Next Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Driver Booster, select it and choose Uninstall.

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, then select Settings at the top.
2. Choose App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, find Driver Booster and select it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for suspicious recently installed programs. If you still can’t locate any suspicious program or not sure what some application is for, we advise you to use SpyHunter free scanner in order to track down what malicious program is infecting your system.

Driver Booster won’t uninstall

There are a lot of options in any Windows version for removing applications. Still, not all the programs can be completely deleted using these options. Adware, Badware and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are too stubborn to be removed, more than that, there are created this way, created to be hard to get rid of them. That’s why sometimes you can’t uninstall them using standard Windows options. You’ll probably get this message: “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Driver Booster. Please, contact your system administrator.” To remove stubborn Driver Booster, you can use SpyHunter removal tool, it will completely remove Driver Booster from your computer. Or you may try to use Safe Mode:

For Windows XP, Vista, 7

1. Turn off your PC;
2. Turn it on and immediately press F8 button;
3. You’ll see Advanced Boot Options menu;
4. Select Safe Mode with arrow buttons;
5. In Safe Mode navigate to Control Panel, then choose Uninstall a program and remove “Driver Booster”.

For Windows 8/8.1 and 10

1. Press the Win+R buttons, type msconfig in box and press Enter;
2. Choose Boot tab, and click on Safe Boot check box;
3. Select the type of Safe Mode: Minimal or Network;
4. Press OK and reboot your PC;
5. In Safe Mode navigate to Control Panel, then choose Uninstall a program and remove “Driver Booster”.

You can also perform Clean Boot. You need to turn off all the startup programs that may be the reason why the program won’t uninstall.

1. Press Windows + R;
2. In the Run window type msconfig;
3. Choose Services section;
4. Find Hide all Microsoft services line, tick the box;
5. The click Disable all;
6. Return back to General section;
7. Find the line Selective startup and untick the box Load startup items;
8. Select Apply, then OK;
9. Reboot your PC;
10. Remove Driver Booster from Control Panel.