How to remove PC Cleaner unwanted program

What is PC Cleaner?

PC Cleaner is Potentially Unwanted Program, that is trying to make an impression of a good and proper computer’s performance booster. The developers claim that this application can clean, optimize and speed up a computer. We should warn you, that there is a catch – not only it will make up or exaggerate some issues on a computer in order to scare a user, but demand payment after scanning a system. We recommend not to buy anything they are offering you, as it may be very shady and unneeded purchase, and remove PC Cleaner.

How to remove PC Cleaner from your computer?

You may try to use anti-malware tool to remove PC Cleaner from your computer. Simple and effective.

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You can also use this software, it may help you to remove PC Cleaner:
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
HitmanPro – Malware Removal

How to remove PC Cleaner manually

Remove PC Cleaner from Control Panel

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

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Select Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Choose Uninstall a Program.
4. Find PC 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 PC 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 PC Cleaner 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.

PC 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 PC Cleaner. Please, contact your system administrator.” To remove stubborn PC Cleaner, you can use the removal tool, it will completely remove PC Cleaner from your computer.

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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 “PC 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 “PC 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 PC Cleaner from Control Panel.

There are all the manual instructions that will help you to find PC Cleaner and remove it on your computer. The most effective method to get rid of PC Cleaner is to perform the manual removal instructions and then use any automatic tool. The manual method will weaken the malicious program and the program will remove it. Thank you for your attention, we hope this instruction will help you.