How to Remove ByteFence Anti-Malware – Windows Removal Guides

Have no idea how to remove ByteFence Anti-Malware in Windows? Read this page, and you’ll learn the correct, effective way to completely uninstall programs.

ByteFence Anti-Malware can detect and remove Trojans, Worms, Spyware, Crapware and other high-risk threats. There are many other antivirus products are like this, offering real-time protection for the system. The problem is that most of them are quite difficult to uninstall. And if you installed more than one antivirus software, expecting a stronger protection, then you’re wrong. They will fight against each other and cause conflicts that slow down your PC performance.

For all that reasons you want to remove ByteFence Anti-Malware or other programs, the following guides can be useful.

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Method 1: Manually Remove ByteFence Anti-Malware Yourself

1. To smoothly conduct the removal process, you need to log in the system as an Administrator, so that you won’t be asked for password permission all the way. In most cases we log in Windows as an Administrator at home as the default settings. (How to check for administrator rights in Windows?)

2. Right-click on ByteFence Anti-Malware icon on the System Tray, and select Exit to close the program.

3. Hit Ctrl + Alt + Del to run Task Manager, terminate the ByteFence Anti-Malware process by selecting it in the Processes tab and clicking End.

4. In the bottom-left screen of your screen, right-click on the Windows logo and select Control Panel.

5. In the Control Panel window, click the Uninstall a program link.

6. In the list of installed programs, find & double-click ByteFence Anti-Malware to activate its default uninstall wizard.

7. Follow the prompts to proceed with the removal, provide confirmation when it’s needed, then wait for the uninstall wizard to finish its job.

8. Hover your mouse in the bottom-right corner, then you see the charms bar. Click Search, enter “regedit” to open the Registry Editor.

9. On the navigator of the Registry Editor, click File > Export to create a back-up (.reg file) of the whole Registry in case of any irretrievable mistake. (How to restore the Registry in Windows?)

10. Then on the navigator click Edit > Find…, type “ByteFence Anti-Malware” in the box to find the related entries/keys, then delete them to completely remove ByteFence Anti-Malware.

11. Reboot your computer to take effect.

Method 2: Remove ByteFence Anti-Malware with a Professional Tool

This may save a lot of troubles for you. In every version of Windows OS, steps to remove ByteFence Anti-Malware & other unwanted programs will always be the same. This is a short video demonstration that shows you how to do it:

And these are the steps you need to go through:

1. Click the green download button on the page to download & install Max Uninstaller, then run it.

Note: While ByteFence Anti-Malware is installed on your computer, it may alert that Max Uninstaller (Ideakee Inc.) is an unsafe program, which sometimes happens to a number of utilities. Please ignore the false report this time, and continue using it. There will be no harm coming from Max Uninstaller. After the support team solve such problems, you won’t see the alert again while using this tool. 🙂

2. Find & select ByteFence Anti-Malware in the Programs list, and click Run Analysis, a list of all the related files will be displayed > hit Complete Uninstall and follow the prompts to proceed.

3. Click Scan Leftovers when the button turns to green. This is to scan for the program’s vestiges, which will also be displayed in a list. You can review the list for details, then hit Delete Leftovers to remove ByteFence Anti-Malware.

To check whether you’ve done the removal well, click “Back to Step1.” You will be brought back to the programs list, where you can see all the currently installed programs on the system. ByteFence Anti-Malware should be gone by now, and you can try to uninstall other unwanted/needless programs by performing the same 3 steps above. 😀

If Your PC is Running Slow

If you have performed the above steps to remove ByteFence Anti-Malware and some other unwanted programs, expecting your system to run faster, but it still goes very slow, you might consider a new computer or upgrades for some hardware, such as a hard disk with larger space or a faster video card. But first you can check your PC’s speed before making decisions. Click this link for How to Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score in Windows 8.1/10.