How Can I Uninstall Malwarebytes Anti-Malware completely, Step by Step Instruction of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware removal

December 26, 2011

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a security software that claims to protect your computer against online malware infection. If your are looking for protection for your computer, then Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is probably a good one to pick, but if this program is no longer needed, or you want to try other security software, you may have to uninstall it from your computer first.

Problems of uninstalling Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

However, uninstalling Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is not that simple as other common program. Due to some bugs this program has, you may probably encounter the below error messages when you are trying to remove it.

Is one of these errors that troubling you? Take it easy, whatever problems you are having with this Malwarebytes Anti-Malware removal, we are here to help you out. Actually you can try two methods below (both manual and automatic) to remove Malwarebytes Anti-Malware:

Uninstall Malwarebytes Anti-Malware manually.

For Windows XP/2000 users

Click on Start Menu – Control Penal – Add/Remove Program.
Search and locate Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in the program list, click “Remove” button on the right side.

Follow the on-screen wizard to continue uninstalling Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Restart your computer when the uninstall finished

For Windows Vista/7 users

Click on Start Menu – Control Penal – Uninstall a program (you may find this link under the Program category)
Search and locate Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in the program list, click Uninstall button.
Follow the on-screen wizard to continue uninstalling Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Restart your computer when the uninstall finished.

Note: before you start the above removal steps, make sure to close Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and end all the possible related processes on the background first, otherwise you’ll probably receive error messages during the removal. To end the related processes, you can open Windows Task Manager by pressing the button of Alt + Ctrl + Del on your keyboard, details showed as below image.

After you finished the above steps, you need to delete the leftover registry keys of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to ensure a complete removal. Click Start – Run – Type in Regidit to open Windows Registry Editor. Locate and delete the below keys of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in the registry editor.

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Malwarebytes]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Malwarebytes]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Malwarebytes.exe]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Malwarebytes]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Malwarebytes Anti-Malware]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F}]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
Restart your computer to let the new changes take effect.

Remove Malwarebytes Anti-Malware automatically

The manual removal could be a bit complicated for average computer users, and due to the risks involved in registry editing, we always recommend users to adopt the automatic solution, which is uninstall Malwarebytes Anti-Malware by using Max Uninstaller. Max Uninstaller is powerful in uninstalling any stubborn/troublesome programs, although it is a commercial software, consider the easiness and safety it offers, this program is definitely worth a few bucks.

How to Uninstall Malwarebytes Anti-Malware with Max Uninstaller

Step1: Click here to free download Max Uninstaller, and then install it in your computer.
Step2: Launch Max Uninstaller, select Malwarebytes Anti-Malware on the right hand list. Press “Run Analysis”

Step3: Max Uninstaller will review uninstall program files and associated registry entries. Click Complete Uninstall to start the program uninstall process. Click Yes to start uninstalling Malwarebytes Anti-Malware uninstall.

Step4: Wait for the standard Malwarebytes Anti-Malware uninstall completed. Click “Scan Leftovers”, and Max Uninstaller will conduct a full scan on your computer for a while.

Step5: When it finish scanning, click “Delete Leftovers” and “Yes” button to thoroughly remove Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and its leftovers.

Step6: Max Uninstaller has now fully uninstalled Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and deleted all the related files and extensions. Click OK to finish.

Uninstall Malwarebytes Anti-Malware with Max Uninstaller Video demonstration

Max Uninstaller will uninstall any software program you have on your system that you will not want to use anything else to do this. Not only will it uninstall Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in this case, but it will also clean up any files associated with the program, such as dlls and other registry issues.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware uninstaller benefits:

Entirely uninstall any unwanted, corrupted or malicious programs, applications and software that cannot be uninstalled from Windows Add/ Remove Programs.
Fully clean up any registry leftovers and corrupted drivers that are related with the program.
Ensure you safe uninstall to prevent any system crash or system files corruption via a full backup before uninstall process.
Completely uninstall any kinds of software.

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