2014-05-18

Can't Uninstall Driver Detective - How to Remove Driver Detective Programs in Windows 7

Can’t uninstall Driver Detective completely since it is not listed in “Uninstall a Program” in Control Panel in Windows 7?
Are you looking for the Driver Detective removal guides as it is corrupted in your system?
Are you disappointed that you are not able to get rid of Driver Detective because its error messages never stop showing up?
In order to solve the problem in your laptop, you could learn and follow the program uninstall instructions to entirely delete Driver Detective from your PC in this article.

There are 2 useful program removal guides to delete Driver Detective from your PC.

Tips 1: Delete Driver Detective through Windows Control Panel by manual

Tips 1: How to manually remove Driver Detective through Windows Control Panel?

As usual, you prefer to uninstall programs by using Windows Control Panel. And you could follow the removal instructions below:

Restart your computer and press F8 key on your keyboard. This will open up the Advanced Boot Options screen, in Windows 7 or Vista, or the Windows Advanced Options Menu in Windows XP. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, highlight the option labeled Safe Mode with Networking. Once it is highlighted, click on the Enter key on your keyboard.




Step 1: End the related processes of Driver Detective

Guide: Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.

Disable all the running processes about Driver Detective

Next: show hidden files and folders and delete all the following files.

Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).


Delete all the following files related to Driver Detective
%AppData%\.exe
%CommonAppData%\.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\.exe
%temp%\.exe
C:\Program Files\
Step 2: open Registry Editor to delete all invalid registries entries as below

Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )


Delete all the related registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msconfig.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msmpeng.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%AppData%\.exe"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\.exe 

What’s more, you need to remove Driver Detective’s related files:
%AppData%\svc-<random>.exe
%AppData%\data.sec
%AppData% refers to the current users Application Data folder. By default, this is C:\Documents and Settings\<Current User>\Application Data for Windows 2000/XP. For Windows Vista and Windows 7 it is C:\Users\<Current User>\AppData\Roaming.

Tips 2: How to force uninstall Driver Detective with Perfect Uninstaller?

If you can not follow the removal guides above, it is advised you to get rid of Driver Detective with Perfect Uninstaller as following.
2.      Close the running processes 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 Driver Detective.
5.      Follow the prompt “Next” steps to uninstall Driver Detective.




After you finish the prompt removal steps, Driver Detective has been deleted from your PC.

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