How Can I Totally Uninstall Opera browser When I Can't Get Rid of It in Windows 8

I’m trying to uninstall Opera browser completely but when I do, I am told I have insufficient access and I must contact a system administrator even though I am one. I've also ran "default programs" as an administrator. Unfortunately, I’m failed. It is not valid. I think you might have tried many ways to get rid of Opera browser completely since I searched its removal guides from Google on the internet. However, most of them are not helpful or complicated. 

Fortunately, I have found an useful Opera browser removal tip to solve the problem successfully. So I could avoid that trouble if I could carefully follow the software uninstall guides step by step in this post.

How can you fully remove Opera browser from your computer?

As a matter of fact, there are 2 ways to get rid of Opera browser from your laptop.

Method 1: Usually delete Opera browser with Windows Control Panel

Method 2: Fully Uninstall Opera browser with programs removal tool

Method 1: How do you normally remove Opera browser from Windows PC?

As a computer newbie, you would like to remove software with its own uninstaller or from Windows Control Panel. Thus, you could delete Opera browser with the guides as following:

At the beginning, you need to get into Safe Mode of Windows by pressing F8 while you are starting up your computer. Next, you should choose Safe Mode with Networking. And then, complete the following steps below.

Step 1: Click “Start Menu”

Step 2: Click “All Programs”

Step 3: Locate “Opera browser” and select the “Uninstall” option

Step 4: Follow up all prompt steps and finish the removal processes.

However, some of the programs do not have “Uninstall” option and not displayed on the programs list of “Uninstall a Program” in Windows Control Panel. When I start the PC, the software is nowhere to be found. The shortcut is blank and Opera browser is absent from the program list. In this case, you could follow the method 2 as following.

Method 2: How to entirely uninstall/get rid of Opera browser with Perfect Uninstaller?

If you can not follow the removal guides above, it is advised you to get rid of Opera browser with Perfect Uninstaller as following.

1.Download Opera browser removal tool

2.Close all running processes including programs and browsers in the Task Manager before you run Perfect Uninstaller

3.Find and locate the program on the currently installed programs list

4.Click “Uninstall” button on the right side to remove Opera browser.

Alternately, if the unwanted software is not list of the display list of Perfect Uninstaller, you could force uninstall Opera browser completely and easily with program uninstall tool.

Step 1: Run Perfect Uninstaller

Step 2: Click the “Force Uninstall” option on the interface of software uninstall tool

Step 3: Select the scanning program path. That means you should locate and select the unwanted program for scanning. Usually it is stored in C:\Program Files (x86) in Windows 7, Windows 8 and C:\Program Files in Windows XP

Step 4: Select and click the “Opera browser” folder.

Step 5: Click “Next” button to follow the processes.

Step 6: Click "Next" to start scanning the registry files about the unneeded program.

Step 7: It will take some time to finish registry scanning. If you don't want to wait, you could click "Skip" option and cancel the scanning.

Step 8: After the registry scanning is completed, click "Next" button to select all related files.

Step 9: Click "Next" button to delete all related files.

Step 10: Click “Finish” button when it stops scanning files and extensions.

After you finish the onscreen removal steps, Opera browser has been deleted from your PC.

What’s more, you could double-check the removal processes of the program with RegCure Pro to speed up your computer

1.Download RegCure Pro to fully delete Opera browser extensions and leftover registry entries

2.Click “Click to Start Scan” button to repair and optimize your computer.

3.RegCure Pro will have a full scan to detect all invalid files which will slow down your PC.

4. Click “Fix All” button on the down-right side to fix all problems and make your PC run faster after scanning the invalid leftover system files.

In the end, if you are still not able to fully get rid of Opera browser, you could learn about how to force uninstall a program with Perfect Uninstaller on the video of YouTube below: