Embedding security applets in browsers, perhaps, does not surprise anyone today. This is especially true for the AdGuard applet. How to remove AdGuard from your computer completely, once and for all, further it is proposed to consider. The emphasis in the article will be made on the means of Windows-systems, and not on third-party utilities that may be involved. This technique is useful to any user who does not have additional utilities at hand.
Why get rid of an applet?
To begin with, we will decide for ourselves what this utility is and why you need to get rid of it? The fact is that this application is part of some anti-virus packages (especially their free versions) and some web browsers in the form of pre-installed add-ons.
Sometimes this program can be installed in the form of third-party software that has the status of trusted and built-in installers of other packages. And this is not to say that the installed applet itself, although it is official, can block the operation of any browser. It’s enough to note that this plugin can even consist of a regular set of some antiviruses, to the category of removing ads or spyware that have absolutely nothing to do with (meaning blocking capabilities of the extension itself). AdBlock, as an additional browser add-on, looks much better.
How to remove AdGuard from a computer in a completely standard way?
Let's start with the basics. How to completely remove AdGuard from a computer? It is important here not only to complete all the processes displayed in the list of active components of the "Task Manager", but also to disable startup and execution in the system settings.
To get started, use the Control Panel programs and components section, and then simply delete the selected applet.
If it doesn’t work (it can be integrated into a standard anti-virus system), first terminate all the processes associated with this service in the “Task Manager”, the field of which go to the startup section and disable the process there.
To solve the problem of how to completely remove AdGuard from a computer, you should use the completion of absolutely all active processes that are somehow related to the above-mentioned service, and also deactivate the antivirus for some time (some packages may contain this applet as a preinstalled component included in the main distribution kit). At the end of the standard process, you should clean the registry (regedit) by specifying the key search by applet name.
The same applies to web browsers in which you want to remove the additional extension using the appropriate settings.
How to remove the Adguard program from your computer completely: uninstallers and optimizers
Now we pass to practical actions. The question of how to completely remove AdGuard from your computer is not even to get rid of the application itself. Most often you have to reinstall the antivirus.
First exit the program and apply the uninstall. But if the standard removal method does not work, no one forbids you to turn to third-party programs in the form of iObot Uninstaller or Revo Uninstaller.
When using such utilities, the question of how to completely remove AdGuard from a computer is solved quite simply. Such utilities, unlike standard uninstallers, are capable of destroying all the “tails” remaining after the removal of any software. In addition, this option of using programs of this type allows you to get rid of even applications that are, so to speak, “wired” into the system and which cannot be removed using standard methods.
Conclusion
If in the ways described above the question of how to remove AdGuard turned out to be unresolved (which is unlikely), use the "Explorer" search or the location of the executable file through the "Task Manager", and then simply delete it. If this does not work, use the Unlocker utility. At least in some builds of Windows 7, it is preinstalled. For versions above, you will have to install it separately.
But the most obligatory in all of this is to deactivate the applet itself at the initial stage and to complete its process of the same name in the "Task Manager". If such actions are not performed, all attempts to remove the service will fail. And basically almost all the errors that occur are associated with just such situations.