Are you seeking for a feasible way to completely get rid of and uninstall Drive Cleaner? If you're having some trouble doing that, here is the right place to help you thoroughly uninstall Drive Cleaner. If Drive Cleaner is corrupted or damaged, the best way to get it work properly is to uninstall it and then reinstall it. But what can you do when you receive error messages during the uninstallation process or when you can't find it in your Programs and Features? Now, in order not to make your situation worse, please stop trying your own methods to uninstall Drive Cleaner, and follow the listed professional methods to remove Drive Cleaner.

Possible Error Caused by Incorrect Uninstall Methods

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The above error messages are all caused by incomplete uninstallation of related programs. Incompletely uninstallation of a program will leave some invalid keys in the system registry, which will cause such error pop-ups when the system still executes them.

Automatically Uninstall Drive Cleaner (Recommended):

This specialized uninstaller can not only help you uninstall Drive Cleaner from the computer effectively, but also identify and delete all leftover files, folders and invalid registry entries belonging to Drive Cleaner.

Manually Uninstall Drive Cleaner:

Step 1: End all processes that are related to Drive Cleaner

Step 2: Uninstall Drive Cleaner

Step 3: Delete invalid entries of Drive Cleaner in the registry

Step 4: Delete leftovers of Drive Cleaner in hard drive

Step 1: End all processes that are related to Drive Cleaner

Hold Ctrl, Shift and Esc keys on the keyboard to open Task Manager. Then click on the related process and click End Process (in Windows 7, Vista) or End Task (in Windows 8) button.

Step 2: Uninstall Drive Cleaner

You can uninstall Drive Cleaner by any of the following uninstall methods:

Method 1: Uninstall Drive Cleaner via Control Panel

1. Open Programs and Features.

In Windows 7 and Vista,

a. Click Start menu and click Control Panel

b. Select View by Category and click Uninstall a program

In Windows 8 or later,

Hover the cursor in the bottom-left corner of the screen, right-click on the Start button when a small image of the Start Screen appears and select Programs and Features

2. Click on Drive Cleaner and click Uninstall to uninstall it from your computer.

Method 2: Uninstall Drive Cleaner using its Uninstall.exe

If you cannot find Drive Cleaner in Programs and Features, then you may be able to uninstall it thru its uninstall.exe.

a. For 32-bit Windows 7, Vista, 8 or later, open the C:\Program Files folder, open the program's folder (ex: WinRAR), and go to step 3 below.

b. For 64-bit Windows 7, Vista, 8 or later, open either the C:\Program Files folder for an installed 64-bit program or C:\Program Files (x86) folder for a installed 32-bit program, and open the program's folder (ex: WinRAR).

Method 3: Uninstall Drive Cleaner via Command Prompt

1. Open an elevated command prompt.

In Windows 7 and Vista,

Click Start menu and type in cmd in search programs and files, right click and select Run as administrator option in the menu. Click Yes, if UAC pops up.

In Windows 8 or later,

2. In the command prompt, type wmic and press Enter.

3. Type product get name and press Enter. (Please wait for a few seconds to allow the utility to list all programs)

4. Note the name of the program you want to uninstall, including any capitalization.

5. Type product where name="name of program" call uninstall and press Enter.

6. If prompted, type Y to confirm uninstalling the program, and press Enter.

7. When successfully uninstalled, you can close the command prompt.

Step 3: Delete invalid entries of Drive Cleaner in the registry

Video Guide: How to back up and edit the registry

Note: It's very important for you to know that the registry is one of the most important part of the Windows system, you should be extremely careful when deleting any keys in the registry. Any small mistake can result in severe problems or even system crash. So removing Drive Cleaner by editing the registry is only recommended to computer users with certain computer knowledge. If you don't want to take the risk to damage your computer system, it's recomended that you use this Automatic Registry Cleaner to clean invalid keys.

Step 4: End all processes that are related to Drive Cleaner

Even you uninstall Drive Cleaner in Control Panel and remove invalid keys in the registry, there are still some folders left in hard drive. To completely remove Drive Cleaner from your system, you can go to the following locations to delete the folders of Drive Cleaner.

C:\Program Files (x86)
C:\Program Files
C:\ProgramData
C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local
C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming

Uninstall Drive Cleaner via Automatic Uninstaller

Manually uninstalling Drive Cleaner cannot promise a 100% removal of Drive Cleaner, especially for computer users with little computer knowledge. If you have tried the above manual uninstall steps but still cannot get Drive Cleaner removed from your system, it's very necessary for you to use this Automatic Uninstaller to do it for you. With only a few clicks, you can easily uninstall any stubborn program from your computer system.