Corel PaintShop Pro X4 Uninstall Review - How to Completely Remove/Delete Corel PaintShop Pro X4 from Windows PC

Are you trying to uninstall Corel PaintShop Pro X4 due to the error messages frequently show up?

Are you confused that you try to delete Corel PaintShop Pro X4 with Control Panel but it is not there?

Are you disappointed that you could not get rid of Corel PaintShop Pro X4 because there is no Uninstall option?

However, if you would like to get rid of the program, you could follow the Corel PaintShop Pro X4 removal guides step by step in this article. 

There are 2 useful program removal guides to delete Corel PaintShop Pro X4 from your PC.

Tips 1: Delete Corel PaintShop Pro X4 through Windows Control Panel by manual

Tips 2: Uninstall Corel PaintShop Pro X4 with software removal tool Perfect Uninstaller

Tips 1: How to manually remove Corel PaintShop Pro X4 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 malicious processes of Corel PaintShop Pro X4

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 Corel PaintShop Pro X4

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 Corel PaintShop Pro X4

%AppData%\.exe

%CommonAppData%\.exe

C:\Windows\Temp\.exe

%temp%\.exe

C:\Program Files\

In the "Uninstall a Program" option on Control Panel, locate Corel PaintShop Pro X4 and click "Uninstall" or "Remove" button to start deleting the program.

Follow up the removal processes until it is completed.

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 Corel PaintShop Pro X4’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 fully delete Corel PaintShop Pro X4 with Perfect Uninstaller?

If you can not follow the removal guides above, it is advised you to get rid of Corel PaintShop Pro X4 with Perfect Uninstaller as following.

1.       Click here to download Corel PaintShop Pro X4 uninstall tool

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 Corel PaintShop Pro X4.

5.       Follow the prompt “Next” steps to delete Corel PaintShop Pro X4.

6.       * Click "Next" to start scanning the registry files about the unwanted program.

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.

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

9.       * Click "Next" button to delete all related files.

     

10.   * Finally, click "Finish" button to complete the removal steps.

After you finish the prompt removal steps, Corel PaintShop Pro X4 has been deleted from your PC.

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