Revo Uninstaller Pro Forced Uninstall

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Asyou type the name of the program or after you point to a file or folder, Revo Uninstaller Pro will search both for a built-in uninstaller for the program, as well as a trace log in our Logs Database and among the logs you have created (if any).

You can then select the desired mode to scan your computer for leftovers. You can choose between three modes: Safe, Moderate, and Advanced. Each subsequent mode requires more time, as it performs a deeper and more thorough leftover scan (6).

Select the leftovers you wish to delete, and click Delete. In most cases it should be safe to directly select all items (by clicking Select All), however, we still recommend that you review the items before selecting them.

When selecting Registry leftovers for deletion, please remember that only entries in bold will actually be deleted. All other entries (the ones not in bold, and the ones in red) are displayed only for information, so that users can get a better idea where the entries in bold are located in the Registry.

If there are no Registry leftovers found, Revo Uninstaller Pro will directly display the files and folders leftover list. As with the Registry leftovers review the items and Select All to mark all leftovers and click Delete.

For your safety, by default, leftover files are deleted to the Recycle Bin, and leftover Registry entries are backed up before deletion. That way you are able to restore any erroneously deleted data later.

Explained simply, you can delete every program by using the uninstaller file. The installation process creates this file. In some cases, this file is not produced. This means that it will be impossible to uninstall it by using the Windows Add/Remove tool. In most cases, you will need to turn to 3rd party uninstaller products such as Revo Uninstaller Pro.

Revo Uninstaller Pro forced uninstall also helps in some cases when the product that you want to remove gets stuck halfway through its uninstallation. The same goes for when you attempt to install or reinstall a software product. Forced uninstall will solve the issue for you.

Most of the software that you are installing on your PC comes with its very own uninstaller. The location of this executable utility is in the installation folder of the program. This tool is an uninstallation wizard that is used to uninstall the software product from your computer. To use this method, follow these steps:

When you are using this method you need to be careful what registry keys you are deleting. If you are inexperienced there is a high chance that you can damage your system. That is why we recommend using 3rd-party applications such as Revo Uninstaller Pro that will safely guide you through the process.

Here is my speccy report.

My issue is that speccy is detecting norton security (as disabled) and malwarebytes (as enabled) in the report even though I have already used the respective software removal tools for each of the antiviruses. Is there some sort of file that remains anyways even after uninstallation and gives a false negative to speccy? How can I remove it?

I'd try using Revo Uninstaller which can find and remove such leftovers.

As you have already removed Norton and Malwarebytes you will probably need the 'Forced Uninstall' option in Revo.

See the link below for how to use it.

'Forced Uninstall' is a Pro option so it needs to be the Revo Pro version - but if you don't want to purchase Revo there is a 30 day trial of Pro which should be plenty of time to do this job.

(PS. You can also achieve the same as 'Forced Uninstall' with Revo Free, it just takes more steps - Once you have Revo Free installed then re-install the offending app and use Revo Free to uninstall it again, it's just more faffing about having to do that re-install/uninstall).

Sometimes it's because Windows registered it as an antivirus that could be used as real-time protection which sometimes the antivirus/antimalware built in uninstaller won't or can't remove and the same goes for their removal tools that are supposed to remove all of the files and registry settings. Even Revo may not be able to remove them from where Windows registers them.

I haven't a clue because I've only ever used Windows Defender with Win10, although in old WinXP there'd be permanent crumbs left behind specifically with Panda AV (maybe other AVs too) that had to have the system disconnect from the Internet as a safety precaution and then have certain services turned off and "database" rebuilt followed by a reboot, and then re-enabling of certain services - definitely not something a standard uninstaller will do or even Revo.

... My issue is that speccy is detecting norton security (as disabled) and malwarebytes (as enabled) in the report even though I have already used the respective software removal tools for each of the antiviruses ...

....I'd try using Revo Uninstaller which can find and remove such leftovers.As you have already removed Norton and Malwarebytes you will probably need the 'Forced Uninstall' option in Revo ...'Forced Uninstall' is a Pro option so it needs to be the Revo Pro version - but if you don't want to purchase Revo there is a 30 day trial of Pro which should be plenty of time to do this job ...

If the "Forced Uninstall" option of the trial version of Revo Uninstaller Pro can't remove the last traces of Norton then be sure you run the Norton Remove and Reinstall (NRnR) Tool in advanced "Remove Only" mode as instructed in the Norton support article Download and Run the Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool for Windows. "Remove Only" mode does a deeper wipe of orphaned files and registry entries, although it (deliberately) leaves behind a few traces that can be removed manually.

I used Norton for several years on a Vista SP2 computer and found that a "Remove Only" wipe with the NRnR tool did not do a great job of removing remnants of previous Control Panel Programs and Features uninstalls, especially for my older Norton products. I contacted Norton customer support via Live Chat at and gave them my Windows OS and Norton product names (past and current) and they were able to provide a list of possible registry entries and files/folders left behind by the NRnR tool that I could manually delete. If you post in the Norton forum at -360-windows one of the Norton Gurus monitoring that forum might be able to help as well.

The biggest obstacle is the version value which can be different for each installation, but you can pull the full path out from the registry. It is contained under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Google Chrome in the item UninstallString

You can also use the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Google Chrome key as an indicator for vanilla Chrome installs, since the information of the Enterprise version is contained in a key shown as a GUID, not Google Chrome.

If you use the script from my last post it will remove enough of Chrome that you can install it again without any issues. Once added again you can then use its uninstaller to completely remove it and all files and registry items.

There has finally been an official release for this uninstaller in April 2016 which is described as being "designed to cleanup/scorch all Preview/RC/RTM releases of Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio vNext".

If you don't have media, doing a dir /s vs_ultimate.exe from the root prompt will find it. Mine was in C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\[guid]. Once I navigated there and ran vs_ultimate.exe with the /uninstall and /force flags, the uninstaller ran

I did run into the an issue with his method though, "Could not find a suitable SDK to target" even though I selected to install Visual Studio with custom settings and selected the SDK I wanted to install. You may need to download the Windows 10 Standalone SDK to resolved this, in order to develop UWP apps if you see this same error after reinstalling Visual Studio.

I tried to install pro vegas 17 and it worked but after a while, I wanted a fresh vegas pro so I tried to uninstall it and because I am so dumb uninstalled all the files on my computer that had sony in their name first before uninstalling the program itself. after this, I tried to install it and said I should uninstall before reinstalling so I searched up how I can uninstall it and then I saw I did it wrong. now if I try to uninstall it through control panel uninstall it doesn't work and I can reinstall it. if someone can help me it would be appreciated. this is a picture of the problem

@Slezzy I recommend using advanced 3rd party uninstallers as they perform WAY better than what the standard Windows uninstaller can do. The Windows built in uninstaller can NEVER do a clean uninstall and always leaves junk files leftovers which grows over time whenever you uninstall applications and this can cause many problems including system slowdowns and hangs.

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