Are you looking for a best solution when Windows Defender won’t uninstall in Windows 8?
Do you want to remove Windows Defender because
it frequently shows up the annoying error message saying "An error (-5009
: 0x8002802b) has occurred while running the setup...."
Have you ever been annoyed that you have
uninstalled Windows Defender through Windows Control Panel, but it is still
there after you reboot your pc?
Take it easy! You could learn and follow Windows
Defender uninstall instructions in this article.
How to fully uninstall Windows Defender from your PC?
There are 2 effective program removal
guides for you to choose.
Tips
1: Uninstall Windows Defender normally in
Windows
Tips
2: Remove Windows Defender with program removal tool Perfect Uninstaller
Tips 1: How to entirely uninstall Windows Defender through Windows Uninstall applet
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 Windows Defender. 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 Windows
Defender on the currently installed programs list and its related entries >
Click “Uninstall or Change” to delete the application.
How to manually get rid of Windows Defender from your laptop?
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 unwanted 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 Windows
Defender
%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 confirm the Windows Defender removal. If you are not good at
handling this method, you could try Tips
2 as following.
Tips 2: How to force uninstall Windows Defender effectively with Perfect Uninstaller?
If you can not follow the removal guides
above, it is advised you to get rid of Windows Defender with Perfect Uninstaller as following.
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 Windows Defender.
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 Windows Defender.
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, Windows Defender has been deleted from your PC.
When you are not able to remove WindowsDefender from your PC, Perfect
Uninstaller is your choice (100% Guaranteed)
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