Can’t Uninstall KNCTR - How to Fully Delete/Remove KNCTR As You Can’t Manually Get Rid of It in Control Panel?

Can’t uninstall KNCTR because it can’t be shut down?

Do you want to remove KNCTR due to it frequently shows up the annoying error message telling you the program is running?

Have you ever been frustrated that you have deleted KNCTR, but it is still there?

When you are unable to delete KNCTR by manual and you don’t know much about KNCTR removal tips, you could learn and follow its uninstall instructions in this article.

How to fully uninstall KNCTR from your PC?

Tips 1: Manually remove KNCTR

Tips 2: Automatically uninstall KNCTR with program removal tool Perfect Uninstaller

Tips 1: How to manually delete KNCTR through Windows Uninstaller?

Most of you would like to get rid of program through Windows Control Panel. However, you might miss some steps so that you are not able to delete KNCTR. Here are the removal guides:

You should reboot your PC 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.

 

Click “Start Menu” > Select Control Panel option > “Uninstall a Program” (Programs and Features) > Find KNCTR on the currently installed programs list and its related entries > Click “Uninstall or Change” to delete the application.

How to Manually Get Rid of KNCTR?

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 KNCTR

%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 you finish steps, you should restart your pc to finish the KNCTR removal processes. If you are not good at handling this method, you could try Tips 2 as following.

Tips 2: How to totally uninstall KNCTR with Perfect Uninstaller step by step?

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

1.       Download KNCTR uninstall 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 KNCTR.

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 KNCTR.

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 onscreen removal steps, KNCTR has been deleted from your PC.

Can’t remove KNCTR? There is no problem to handle the KNCTR removal if you carefully and correctly follow the uninstall tips above.

You can know more about the how to force uninstall programs in the video below