How to Uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 Completely and Safely?

Tips to Uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012

ZoneAlarm Extreme Security is one of the series products of ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 is the latest version which comes with lots of additional features. Most of them have a heavy emphasis on controlling what information is sent and received by the PC its installed on. ZoneAlarm Extreme Security uses a combination of Kaspersky’s anti-virus engine and its own library of threat defence signatures, as well as the abilities of its famous firewall to alert users to potentially unwanted connection attempts. Therefore, this anti-malware software obtains quite nice user base. However, ZoneAlarm still can not acheive at the top of the antivirus field because of its high price and imperfect performance. You may feel hard to uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security when you decide to abandon it. It seems like that almost antivirus software can not be uninstalled very easily and even some of them have not the program build-in uninstaller. So does ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012. Here I will show you how to uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security completely with different methods.

Uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security by Yourself

1. Click “Start”—>”Control Panel”—>”Add/Remove Programs”
2. In the currently installed programs list, select ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 on the program list and click “remove” button.

3. Wait for a moment then you will receive the uninstall message like:

Registry Info of ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012:
My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zone Labs
My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm
My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\TrueVector
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\TrueVector\LocalStoreDir
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\TrueVector\LogStoreDir
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\Diagnostics
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\Registration
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\Registration\10.1.079.000

You also can find out all of the registry entries of ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 from here:

If you installed ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 in the C:\\ previously, you should go and delete the “CheckPiont” folder which contains ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 related components. Windows Add/Remove Programs is not able to remove all leftovers of the software. You had better delete them including the fake and invalid registry entries yourself. In order to avoid unexpected problems, you should back up the Windows registry before you edit or delete them.

Extra Tips: How to Back Up Windows Registry?

You can follow these simple steps to back up the whole registry or any particular registry subkey:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate and then click the root subkey that contains all the child subkeys and values that you want to back up.
4. On the File menu, click Export.
5. In the Save in box, select a location where you want to save the Registration Entries (.reg) file, type a file name in the File name box, and then click Save.

If you get something wrong with your PC after you delete the registry entries of ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 like system crashes, freezes… you have to restore the registry immediately.

Use System Restore to undo registry changes in in Windows XP

1. Open Registry Editor.
2. Click Options, and then click Print to print these instructions.
3. Click Start, and then click Shut Down.
4. In the list, click Restart, and then click OK.
5. When you see the message Please select the operating system to start, press F8.
6. Use the arrow keys to highlight Last Known Good Configuration, and then press ENTER. NUM LOCK must be off before the arrow keys on the numeric keypad will function.
7. Use the arrow keys to highlight an operating system, and then press ENTER.

Uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 with Max Uninstaller

Max Uninstaller helps you uninstall antivirus software like ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012, VoodooShield, Avast Internet Security, AVG Antivirus Free Edition 2012, Comodo Internet Security and any other programs you don’t need. Max Uninstaller will remove all of the leftovers of the application completley and safely. Please read the content below to learn how Max Uninstaller works to uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 easily and completely.

Video: How to Uninstall ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 with Max Uninstaller

If you can not wait for the video loading, please follow the guides step by step to achieve the removal.

Step 1. Download Max Uninstaller from here and install it on your PC within seconds.

Step 2. Run Max Uninstaller then select ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 on the program list.

Step 3. Click “Run Analysis” to scan all directories of the software.

Step 4. Click “Compelte Uninstall” to remove the exe file of ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012.

Step 5. Follow the wizard to proceed and restart your computer after finish the removal.

Step 6. Run Max Uninstaller again and click “Scan Leftovers”.

Step 7. Click “Delete Leftovers” to remove other components.

Finally, you will receive message that tells you all leftovers of ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 have been removed completely.

Extra knowledge – System restore

System restore is a service on the Windows operating system that aims at helping computer users to roll back of system files, registry keys, installed programs and so on to a previous state in the event of system malfunction or failure. Especially in Windows 7, you even can create system restore points and see more exactly about the specific situations about those files on your computer.

Limitations and complications of the system restore

Although system restore and help you to solve the system crash or other problems via making the computer system come back to the normal situation, it will has many of its own limitations and complications which should be paid attention by the people.

After performing the System Restore, those software installations you don’t need and especially in-place software upgrades may be incompletely reverted.This will be a problem when you try to completely remove them from your computer.

If the disk space has little available space. All restore contents will finally be deleted after the time specified in the RPLifeInterval registry setting is reached or earlier.

Those files in the directory where the restore points are saved cannot be changed or removed in the System Restore.