Can't Uninstall Rocket Search - How to Totally Remove Rocket Search and Rocket-Find.com Redirect Virus with Its Removal Guides

Can't uninstall Rocket Search from Windows 8 as it is intalled in your PC?

Have you ever tried to uninstall Rocket Search toolbar because you install it by mistake?

Have you been disappointed to remove Rocket Search toolbar through "Programs and Features" in Windows Control Panel, but you failed?

Have you ever been confused that you have deleted Rocket Search normally, but it is still there?

Need help in deleting Rocket Search from your browsers like Chrome?

To avoid this trouble, you could learn and follow Rocket Search toolbar uninstall instructions in this article.

How to fully uninstall Rocket Search from your PC?

Method 1: Manually uninstall Rocket Search with a standard way

Method 2: Delete Rocket Search with program removal tool Perfect Uninstaller

Tips 1: How to Manually Get Rid of Rocket Search from Windows 7

If you are good at computer skill, you could delete Rocket Search by manual. So please carefully follow the removal guides below.

Step 1: stop all the related processes in Task Manager

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 malicious processes

Step 2: 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 Rocket Search

%AppData%\.exe

%CommonAppData%\.exe

C:\Windows\Temp\.exe

%temp%\.exe

C:\Program Files\

Step 3: 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

After that, you should remove Rocket Search Toolbar from browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and IE by manual

For Chrome:

1.      Open Chrome.

2.      Click on the Chrome menu and select Settings.

3.      Click on Extensions in the left side menu.

4.      Remove/Disable the Rocket Search Toolbar.

5.      In the Search section, click Manage search engines and remove Rocket Search from the default search engines list.

6.      Click OK to save the changes.

7.      In the Chrome menu, select Settings.

8.      In the On Startup section, Click on Set Pages and delete the Rocket Search URL (you can set a different home page by entering a URL of your choice).

9.      Click Ok to save the changes.

10.   In the Appearance section, click on Change and delete the Rocket Search URL (you can set a different home page).

11.   Click Ok to save the changes.

For Internet Explorer

1.      Click on “Tools” and select Manage add-ons.

2.      Under Add-on Types, select Toolbars and Extensions.

3.      In the right pane, select Rocket Search Toolbar and click on the Disable button.

4.      Under Add-on Types, select Search Providers.

5.      Select Rocket Search and click the Remove button.

6.      In the General tab, delete the Rocket Search URL from the Home page text box.

7.      Click OK to save the changes

For Firefox

1.      Open Mozilla Firefox.

2.      From the Firefox orange button (or from the standard Tools menu), click on Add-ons.

3.      Make sure Extensions is selected in the Add-ons manager left side menu bar

4.      Disable or remove the Rocket Search Toolbar add-on

5.      In the General tab, delete the Rocket Search URL from the home page text box.

6.      Click OK to save the changes.

If you open a new tab in Firefox and Rocket Search as home page, do the following:

Type: about:config in the address bar and press enter

Confirm the message.

Type: browser.newtab.url in the Search text field

Right-click on the result and select Rocket Search (or Reset in older versions)

After you finish steps, you should restart your pc to confirm the Rocket Search removal. If you are not good at handling this method, you could try Tips 2 as following.

Tips 2: How to remove Rocket Search with Perfect Uninstaller?

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

1.       Download RocketSearch 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 Rocket Search.

Alternatively, you could right-click the folder of the unwanted program (normally, in C:\Program Files) or C:\Program Files (x86) in Windows 7 system 64 bits and then select “Force Uninstall with PU” to apply the “Force Uninstall” utility.

5.       Follow the prompt “Next” steps to delete Rocket Search.

After you finish the onscreen removal steps, Rocket Search has been deleted from your PC.

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