How do I Uninstall MyPC Backup – Detailed Tutorial
MyPC Backup is a program developed by JustDevelopIT, it allows you to backup computer files/documents safely online so that avoid data lose due to issues like mistaken deletion or drive crash. But the fact is, once you uploaded a certain amount of data in MyPC Backup, this program will start blackmailing you by informing that ‘you are out the boundaries of a normal user’, and if you don’t pay for upgrade the account, your data will be deleted. This is quite an irritating commercial strategy and many users would choose to uninstall MyPC Backup program, however, the removal is not as simple as it appear, people complain that MyPC Backup program keeps popping up and inform them to backup their file even they had uninstall it previously.
Well, if you have trouble with uninstalling MyPC Backup program, here is the removal instruction for your reference.
Uninstall MyPC Backup step-by-step
Below is the instruction to guide you manually uninstall MyPC Backup, in order to make sure a completely removal, please follow the below instruction carefully.
Part 1: Run the default uninstall wizard
- Click Start button, go to Control Panel > Add/Remove program.
- Find out MyPC Backup program in the list, and click Remove button on the right.
- The default uninstaller will start to process the removal of MyPC Backup, wait a few seconds.
- After the removal is completed successfully, you will receive message mentioned ‘MyPC Backup was successfully removed from your computer’, click OK button to finish.
Part 2: Remove program leftovers
You should know that the default uninstaller of MyPC Backup always fail to remove all the program components, part of the program is still persist inside your computer system that required you to manually find out and delete them all.
- Click Start, go to Search > Files or folder
- Set the search range as All file and folders.
- Type in MyPC Backup in the search area and click Search button.
- After the search completed, you can press ‘Alt + A’ in your keyboard to select all the found file, and right click to delete them all.
- Now press Windows button and R key on your keyboard to open Run commend window.
- Type in ‘regedit’ and press Enter to open Registry Editor.
- Navigate the registry editor and find out the below leftover registry keys & entires of MyPC Backup.
HKLM|SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MyPC Backup
HKU|S-1-5-21-299502267-287218729-1801674531-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache|C:\Program Files\MyPC Backup\MyPC Backup.exe
HKU|S-1-5-21-299502267-287218729-1801674531-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache|C:\Program Files\MyPC Backup\Signup Wizard.exe
- Delete the above registry leftovers one by one, and then close registry editor.
- Reboot the computer once you done all the above steps.
Automatic way to uninstall MyPC Backup (recommended)
Whenever you encounter uninstall problem or look for solutions to completely and automatically remove the program you want, Max Uninstaller would be your best choice. This processional uninstaller tool is able to forcibly remove any types of stubborn or problematic Windows application/program completely with ease, MyPC Backup is no exception, using Max Uninstaller to do the removal can definitely save you both time and energy as you don’t need to go through the tedious and complicated process as the above manual solution.
Video demonstration
Uninstall steps
- Download Max Uninstaller, install it in your computer with ease.
- Launch MU, select MyPC Backup in program list and click ‘Run Analysis’ button.
- After its done, click ‘Complete Uninstall’to start the default removal.
- Once the default removal is finished, click ‘Scan Leftovers’ button allow Max Uninstaller to scan over your computer and find out all the remains of MyPC Backup.
- Click ‘Delete Leftovers’to remove all found leftovers
- Click OK in the pop-up message to finish the removal.
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