Uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016 – Bitdefender Removal Steps

Bitdefender is a famous security developer that attracts many people installing their product, Bitdefender Total Security 2016 is one of the series of Bitdefender application that secures your computer security, your online behaviors and personal privacy, but today, we will discuss the way to uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016 effectively on PC, which may be necessary for you now or in some cases when you need to remove it.

Things you should know about Bitdefender removal

With the installation of Bitdefender Total Security 2016, many files, settings and registry keys will be added to your computer and its installation folder, and many temporary will also be created during the the frequent use of the program. Please remember to completely uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016 and clean all of these files out of your computer, because the incomplete removal usually causes some troublesome issues on PC:

• Bitdefender leftovers will cause conflict issue with other program you newly installed
• Files and data leaving on the computer will consume the limited system space
• Bitdefender Total Security 2016 cannot be re-installed on the computer

Situations that you may need to remove Bitdefender Total Security 2016:

• Reinstall the program itself on the computer
• Change to use other antivirus application
• Program itself is corrupted
• The program often occupies a high using rate on CPU usage

Optional methods to uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016

According to my experience of this program removal, there are generally three ways can help remove the application on computer: the firstly one is using our Max Uninstaller, which is capable of removing different installed programs quickly and thoroughly; the second way is removing the program with Windows uninstall feature, which requires you to take additional steps to remove it completely; the third way is taking Bitdefender uninstaller (should install additionally) to uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016.

Method one – remove Bitdefender Total Security 2016 with Max Uninstaller

Max Uninstaller provides the associated removing support to help users to uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016 automatically on PC, you can follow the video tutorial or specific instructions below to perform the program removal on your computer.

1.Launch Max Uninstaller (if you don’t have it installed, click here to uninstall and install)
2.Choose Bitdefender Total Security 2016 on the interface, and click Run Analysis

3.Click Complete Uninstall button, and Yes to start the removal

4.Click Remove button on the new window, and then select “I want to permanently remove it“, continue to click on the Next icon at the bottom to activate the uninstall process

5.When the first stage of removal is finished, choose to restart your computer, and open the Max Uninstaller again to complete the rest of leftover removal
6.Choose to review all of leftovers with Max Uninstaller, then click Delete Leftovers to complete the program removal, then restart the system

7.Go back to the main interface of the removal tool, and repeat the removing steps to uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016’s associated process on the computer

Method two – uninstall with Windows built-in removal utility

As everybody knows that we can make use of the Windows attached removing feature to uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016, but there is a fact that the standard removal on Windows does not remove the program thoroughly, in order to totally uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016, you should conduct an additionally manual removing job for those files leaving on your computer.

• Right-click on Windows button, select Programs and Features (only for Win 8, 8.1, 10 uses, other Windows system can get access to the uninstall via the Control Panel)

• Highlight Bitdefender Total Security 2016, then click on Uninstall button

• Tap the Remove button to choose to uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016
• Select “I want to permanently remove it“, then click Next
• Complete the removal, then reboot the computer system

• Check the installation folder of Bitdefender Total Security 2016 and Registry Editor, clean those files and data associated with Bitdefender
• Bitdefender Agent is a process bundled with the Bitdefender Total Security 2016, please remember to remove it additionally if you don’t want any related file or process still leaving on your PC.

Pay attention to your behavior on Registry Editor. Registry Editor is a place that enable people to check and modified the registry key/entry on the system, besides those registry keys related to the Bitdefender application, there are a large number of system registries that also staying on the database. Therefore, please be cautious if you want to find out and remove those registries with Bitdefender Total Security 2016, a minor error would cause a big mistake on your computer.

Method three – uninstall Bitdefender Total Security 2016 with Bitdefender uninstaller

Bitdefender Total Security 2016 has its own uninstall process on the installation folder, so people can use it to remove the program on PC, or you can choose to activate the uninstall process via the list of installed applications, it takes the same removing steps with uninstalling Bitdefender Total Security 2016 via the Windows uninstall feature.