How to remove History Cleaner

What is History Cleaner?

History Cleaner– is a browser extension that allows to automate the process of clear browsing data. Except that its usefulness is questionable, History Cleaner also causes many problems related to browsing experience. After getting into the system, it affects your browser configurations by injecting bunch of ads. That way, developers are able to generate revenue from displaying advertising. To that end, History Cleaner is main culprit responsible for constant and sudden redirects to the ad-supported pages making the Internet surfing an uncomfortable. If you want to get rid of ads by History Cleaner and remove this adware, then you can easily do that by following this guide. To do this, you should remove History Cleaner components installed as Windows application and other browser extensions related to this adware. There are perhaps more malicious programs on your computer similar to History Cleaner. In this case, it’s better to use automated removal tools for eliminating similar threats.

How to remove History Cleaner from your computer?

The best and easiest way to remove History Cleaner from your computer is to use 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 anti-malware application, it will scan your system and remove all the threats.

It scans your computer and detects various threats like History Cleaner, 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 History Cleaner. Use this removal tool to get rid of History Cleaner for FREE.
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How to remove History Cleaner manually

Remove History Cleaner from Control Panel

In order to get rid of History Cleaner, first thing you need to do is to uninstall malicious program from your computer. When removing History Cleaner, 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 History Cleaner.
5. Click Uninstall.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Select Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Choose Uninstall a Program.
4. Find History Cleaner 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 History Cleaner, 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 History Cleaner and select it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Mac OSX:

1. Launch Finder
2. Select Applications in the Finder sidebar.
3. If you see Uninstall History Cleaner or History Cleaner Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
4. Drag unwanted application from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

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.

History Cleaner 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 History Cleaner. Please, contact your system administrator.” To remove stubborn History Cleaner, you can use SpyHunter removal tool, it will completely remove History Cleaner 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 “History Cleaner”.

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 “History Cleaner”.

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 History Cleaner from Control Panel.

Step 2: Remove History Cleaner from browsers

Once you’ve uninstalled the application, remove History Cleaner from your web browser. You need to search for recently-installed suspicious add-ons and extensions.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Choose Tools.
4. Select Extensions.
5. Search for History Cleaner.
6. Select the trash can icon to remove it.

Safari:

1. Click Preferences from Safari menu
2. Select Extensions.
3. Find History Cleaner or other extensions that look suspicious.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Select History Cleaner.
4. Choose Disable or Remove option.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Choose Manage Add-ons option.
4. Click Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Next select Disable History Cleaner.
6. Choose More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

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