Effectively Remove Splashtop Personal in Windows – Uninstall Guides

Lately a lot of users found troubles when trying to remove Splashtop Personal on their PCs. If you’re stuck in this removal, the following tutorials may help you out.

Splashtop Personal is a free application for you to use local network and access your home computer from your couch or bedroom. To use it across the Internet anywhere, you’ll need to pay $16.99 per year. With the application on your device like iPad/iPhone, you can access all the apps, files, videos and music on your computer, view and edit Microsoft Office and PDF file, browse the web using Chrome, IE or Firefox with full flash and support.

It should not be very hard to completely remove Splashtop Personal from your computer, since it’s not a large antivirus program. Now I’ll guide you through the whole process and hopefully you’d have a clear understanding of how to uninstall an application.

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How to Correctly Remove Splashtop Personal in Windows?

Perform the following steps in Administrative Rights:

Part 1: Make sure Splashtop Personal is not running.

1.1 In the bottom-right corner of your screen, right-click the program icon on the System Tray, then select to quit the program.

1.2 To make sure nothing related to the program is running in the back ground, right-click on the Taskbar and select Task Manager. Find and End the processes related to the program.

Part 2: Remove Splashtop Personal from the system (Applies to both Windows 8 and Windows 10).

2.1 Hit Windows key + C on your keyboard to open the Charms bar, and select Search.

2.2 In the box type “Splashtop Personal” — the name of the program you wish to remove, right-click on the result and select Uninstall.

2.3 Then you see Splashtop Personal in the list of currently installed programs, double-click it to activate the removal.

2.4 Provide confirmation when it’s needed.

2.5 Follow the prompts to restart your computer, or do it in the end of this cleaning job.

Step 3: Remove the remaining files of Splashtop Personal.

3.1 Again, hit Windows key + C on your keyboard to open the Charms bar, and select Search, and enter “regedit” to open the Registry Editor.

3.2 (Optional) On the navigator, click File > Export…, type a name for the registry backup copy, and save it to your preferred location.

3.3 Locate and delete this file: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Splashtop Inc.\

3.4 On the navigator, click Edit > Find…, enter “Splashtop Personal” to search for the remaining files of the program, and delete them if found to completely remove Splashtop Personal.

3.5 If you haven’t restarted your computer in Step 2.5, restart it now. Then you can check whether the removal was successful.

A Simpler Way to Remove Splashtop Personal & Other Unwanted Programs

Another solution I would like to introduce is an easy-to-use, small-sized tool that supports all the popular Windows OS versions. You can also try to uninstall other programs that are not welcome anymore in the system with it. How does it work? Take a quick look below:

Step 1: Click any of the blue download buttons on this page or visit the homepage to download Max Uninstaller.

Step 2: Run it, and you can see clearly what programs are installed currently. Choose Splashtop Personal and hit Run Analysis.

It will scan for all the related files and get ready for your next request, during which you may be asked for confirmation of this removal, just click Yes/OK to proceed.

Step 3: Keep all files checked, and click Complete Uninstall.

Step 4: Click Scan Leftovers when it turns to green, then you see the all the vestiges that most users will forget to delete during the manual removal. Click Delete Leftovers to fully remove Splashtop Personal.

Clicking Back to Step1 to refresh the list of currently installed programs, and check whether your target is no long there. You can perform the same steps to remove other needless programs and free up some disk space. I do hope this recommendation can be a better removal solution to you anytime.

Got better ideas to effectively remove a program? Leave comments below! Let us know what we’re missing and how to improve the instructions. To reinstall Splashtop Personal, just visit the official site.