How to remove The Game Finder

What is The Game Finder?

The Game Finder is a web portal where any user can play the casual games for free. That sounds tempting, isn’t that? However, developers spread their games for a reason, they makes money in a such way through advertising. Be aware, installing their game, you also install adware. It’s a fresh application but many users already complain about the program’s work. In particular, many complains about high CPU usage by the program that, of course, causes slowness of the system. The Game Finder makes changes to the system registry and browser settings without user agreement. The consequences of these changes: a lot of annoying ads that will show on the every page you visit and constant redirections that can occur at any moment.

Another unpleasant feature of The Game Finder is spying on your browsing habits. In order to match you relevant advertising content, it observes user’s browsing habits by collecting personal data like IP address, browsing activity history, searching results and so on. Thereafter, these data can get to scammers that will only worsen the situation. If you want to get rid of ads by The Game Finder and remove this adware, then you can easily do that by following this guide. To do this, you should remove The Game Finder components installed as Windows application and other browser extensions related to this adware. There are perhaps more malicious programs on your computer similar to The Game Finder. In this case, it’s better to use automated removal tools that do it much faster.

How to remove The Game Finder from your computer?

The best and easiest way to remove The Game Finder 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 The Game Finder, 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 The Game Finder. Use this removal tool to get rid of The Game Finder for FREE.
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How to remove The Game Finder manually

Remove The Game Finder from Control Panel

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

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Select Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Choose Uninstall a Program.
4. Find The Game Finder 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 The Game Finder, 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 The Game Finder 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 The Game Finder or The Game Finder 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.

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

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 “The Game Finder”.

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 The Game Finder from Control Panel.

Step 2: Remove The Game Finder from browsers

Once you’ve uninstalled the application, remove The Game Finder 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 The Game Finder.
6. Select the trash can icon to remove it.

Safari:

1. Click Preferences from Safari menu
2. Select Extensions.
3. Find The Game Finder 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 The Game Finder.
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 The Game Finder.
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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