I made a stupid mistake today on my new laptop and installed a registry cleaner without doing my research. The program that I installed was Registry Booster by Uniblue.
I wanted a free program to use on the new laptop, but Registry Booster is only free for 15 errors, and no more. My computer had over 400 errors, so 15 was not even a drop in the bucket.
My problem came when I went to uninstall and completely remove Registry Booster from my computer. There is no link to the uninstall program in the start menu folder, and Registry Booster doesn’t register itself with the Windows Add or Remove Programs application either.
Thankfully after finding the program folder for Registry Booster I found the uninstall program in there. After running it I seem to have removed it completely from the system, but now I am again on the hunt for a good and FREE registry cleaning program…
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1 » Free Registry Cleaner - Tech on Tour // Mar 24, 2007 at 5:40 am
[...] After my messy experience trying to use Registry Booster to clean up my new / used laptop I had another look around to find a good (and free) utility to clean out the registry and profiles on my system. [...]
2 Tim Edwards // Apr 6, 2007 at 1:37 am
Thanks for the tip. I was able to navigate to c:\Program Files\Uniblue and I found the uninstall. Worked great.
3 ray prest // May 11, 2007 at 11:51 am
also had registry booster [no uninstall]thanks to tip was able to find and remove , thank you
4 Trevor // Jun 20, 2007 at 11:42 am
How do i uninstall registry booster, i have tried everything can you PLEASE explain to me how to do this
5 Trevor Lowe // Jun 22, 2007 at 11:30 am
I had registery booster installed and i cant find it as i want to uninstal it how do i uninstall registery booster
6 Bill // Jun 25, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Hi Trevor,
If you open up a Microsoft Explorer window (just open up “My Computer”) then go into C: drive, then the Program Files folder, then Uniblue. In there you should be able to find the uninstall program, but if it isn’t in there then check the subfolders to see if it is a bit deeper in there.
I hope that helps…
Bill
7 jan // Jun 25, 2007 at 6:11 pm
when I want to uninstall this it always tells me its impossible cause its currently running; even after I reboot. Another pirate software?
8 Bill // Jun 26, 2007 at 4:18 am
Try starting Windows in Safe mode and then see what happens. If you start windows in safe mode then hopefully it won’t start up Registry Booster and you will be able to uninstall it.
9 Derek // Jun 30, 2007 at 6:36 am
Good as their product may (or may not) be, I too don’t like the way Uniblue markets and tries to “force†you to buy their product.
I succeeded in getting rid of Uniblue Registry Booster 2 by doing the following:
1. open the Registry Booster 2 application
2. click on the Settings tab
3. un-check all of the default settings
4. click on Apply
5. close the application
6. restart your machine
7. right click on Start (bottom left of your screen) and click Explore
8. scroll down and click on Program Files
9. scroll down until you find Uniblue and right click on the folder
10. scroll down and choose Delete – confirm that you want to Delete the folder
11. go back to your desktop, empty your Trash Bin and restart your machine
This should have deleted Uniblue from your machine and it should have booted up without launching Uniblue Registry Booster 2. Congratulations … you are free of one more piece of zombieware!
10 Bill // Jun 30, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Thanks for the step by step advice Derek.
That should help people get rid of Registry Booster once and for all.
11 hoddy // Jul 3, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Uninstall Registry booster by Uniblue.
I followed uninstall hints, but am not sucsessful after lots of effort, also in the registry file.
This is a zombie ! Others, be careful !
Who can help me to undelete these pirates ??
12 Bill // Jul 3, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Hoddy,
Did you have a chance to try out the suggestions by Derek?
If that didn’t work maybe try going to step 6 in his instructions and then try running the uninstall program that is in the folder.
It might also be worth trying to run a decent registry editor like this Free Registry Editor. That one doesn’t leave any junk on the computer, and only runs in the background if you tell it to.
13 hoddy // Jul 3, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Thks Bill and Derek !
I got rid of Registry Booster 2 !!!
I tried Derek’s suggestions extensively and
lots of others around,… frustrating results.
I’m not experienced with such kind of bad intentions from people.
Finally, I got it easaly fixed.
Followed “Dieter Nuhr” recepie (Ref Yahoo)
System–Task Mgr–Apply–new task–
surch all files
– > I got to erase REGISTRYBOOSTER.exe
I hope, that finally was it for me.
14 Skip // Jul 7, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I have searcherd high and low for the best registry cleaner and I’ve tested those that look good. What I have learned is that I WILL NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH RIGISTRY BOOSTER EVER AGAIN! For all of the reasons explained by others who have installed Registry Booster and I hope the owners of the program fall out of bed every morning at 3:00AM for the rest of their lives.
15 Skip // Jul 7, 2007 at 9:45 pm
My sincere thanks to Derek. I followed his instructions and got rid of Register Booster.
16 Raj Sandhu // Jul 13, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Derek, you are a life saver - thank you for helping me finally get rid of Registery Booster 2
17 Lily Lee // Jul 25, 2007 at 8:18 am
Hi Derek, Thanks so much, I surfed in looking for a solution to Registry Booster 2, and followed your directions, and now am rid of the darn thing. Thanks from a grateful senior idiot.
18 Che // Sep 13, 2007 at 2:10 am
Thank you Derek! Everyone who has been infected by this pirate malware should post anywhere and everywhere that this software is BAD, INVASIVE MALWARE. Register Uniblue is a virus.
19 Carole // Sep 30, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Thanks Bill and Derek,
Isn’t it infuriating how many cons are out there. No should mean NO. and Yes should mean YES. Free to me means FREE of any tricks or manipulation to buy. Trial version means exactly that - try out the program for a period of time… and not “here take a taste - stuff you if it works or not - buy it if you want to prove it works.” and then to make sure you cannot remove it without further waste of time and frustrations. Thank you guys, I followed your advice and it worked. I will not support any company using commercial manipulation or deceipt of any kind. If they are capable of this I would ask the question “what is encoded in their full version?” Hmmmmm??? Scary!!!
20 Harry // Apr 25, 2008 at 9:29 am
Thanks for the infon on Uniblue. it worked a treat.
21 Marichelo // Jun 21, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Many thanks to Bill and Derek, I followed your advices and they worked perfectly.
22 Stephen // Jun 21, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Many thanks for advice to remove reg. booster2. and I surely agree with Carole’s remarks.
23 Konraden // Aug 21, 2008 at 4:49 pm
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a fantastic registry cleaner and generaly computer cleaner.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
24 denny // Aug 24, 2008 at 5:23 pm
thanks i finally managed to uninstall reg.booster2
25 Mama Mia // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:09 pm
NEED SERIOUS HELP! I have used all the methods all have listed but to no avail I STILL CANNOT UNINSTALL UNIBLUE REGISTRY BOOSTER 2. What Now???
26 Tana // Oct 10, 2008 at 11:50 am
I hate when a program, which is supposed to be a professional one, no matter if it is free or not, lacks basic professionalism touches, such as the ability to uninstall it without having to format your hard drive in the process.
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