How to Uninstall Bonjour Service – Download Bonjour Service Removal Tool

You may have seen Bonjour service in your computer but don’t know what is it and how does it installed in your computer. Actually Bonjour is an Apple program to locate services on a local area network. The associated process of The Bonjour service is mDNSResponder.exe which will activate itself and run automatically upon Windows startup.

Bonjour usually installed along with apple product such as iTunes, iChat which apply Apple Software Update feature, other products that contains Bonjour service including Adobe Creative Suite 3，Pidgin, Skype, Fire, Adium and more. If you have installed one several of these programs in your computer but no long use them, it is suggested to uninstall them and the bundled Bonjour service, leaving Bonjour service in your computer could bring you potential security problems as this service is able to create port in the system and transfer data back and forth between the host company, if this process got infected by malicious threats, hacker could easily access to your system through the port that Bonjour service created.

How to Uninstall Bonjour service

To Completely Uninstall Bonjour service, besides removing the software who brought Bonjour service, you also need to remove the below three components:

• Apple Software Update (v2.1.3.127, 2.38MB)
• Bonjour  (v2.0.2.0, 1.06MB)
• Bonjour Print Services  (v2.0.2.0, 2.70MB)

Uninstall/Remove Bonjour service from Windows Control Penal

• Click Start, select Control Penal.
• Click on Add/Remove Program (Win7/Vista user please click Uninstall a program link)
• Locate and select Apple Software Update, click Remove button.

• Follow the instruction to uninstall it
• Select Bonjour in the program list, click Remove button

• Follow the instruction to uninstall it
• Back to the program list select Bonjour Print Services, click Remove button

• Follow the instruction to uninstall it
• After you finished the removal of the above three application, reboot your computer.

Delete Bonjour service registry leftovers

You need to delete all Bonjour service registry leftover file to ensure a completely removal.

• Click Start – Run.
• Type in regedit to and click OK to open registry editor.
• Expend the registry key tree on the left side, locate the below registry key and delete.

Uninstall Bonjour service automatically

If you are looking for an easier solution to Uninstall Bonjour service, we recommend to use Max Uninstaller, Bonjour service and all of its remains can be removed within clicks. You can download Max Uninstaller here and follow the below instruction or video demonstration to proceed:

Step1: Click here to free download Max Uninstaller, and then install it in your computer.
Step2: Launch Max Uninstaller, select  Bonjour service 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 Bonjour service uninstall.

Step4: Wait for the standard  Bonjour service 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 Bonjour service and its leftovers.

Step6: Max Uninstaller has now fully uninstalled Bonjour service related files and extensions. Click OK to finish.

Uninstall Bonjour service with Max Uninstaller Video demonstration

Significant role of using Max Uninstaller

Although the Windows Control Penal and Max Uninstaller are all available for removing the Bonjour service from computer, but these two ways also have many differences in terms of the ease of use, automation and the complete removal. And from the above descriptions about the two removing ways, the automatic removal is obviously more effective then the Windows Control Penal, does the uninstaller do any special things then the Control Penal? You will find the answer below:

• Automatically check for leftovers
  After removing the program on your computer, the powerful and considerate uninstall tool will immediately go to scan the computer system for leftovers, which will significantly save the troublesome manual checking for leftovers.
• Automatically remove all of components
  When all of the leftovers are detected from the computer system, it will perform the automatic removal to clean out them completely, which including those complex registry entries on the Windows system. And the whole removing process will be done in a few minutes which is faster then the manual removal.
• Forcedly delete stubborn files
  As for those stubborn leftovers which cannot be removed by hand, the powerful uninstall program can replace you to forcedly remove them from the computer without any leftovers again, and the program really can be thoroughly removed from the computer.

More reference

• Bonjour in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Visit bonjour in apple official site.