How to remove Advanced System Protector

What is Advanced System Protector

Advanced System Protector is a fancy-looking PC optimizing utility, meant to improve your system. The interface of a program shows that it is able to detect various types of infections, put them in the quarantine lists, establish protection, and other features like that. However, the only thing remaining unclear is whether Advanced System Protector is reliable or not. Most cyber experts including the Malwarebytes team doubt its efficiency in solving the privacy issues. This is because such programs have narrow threat databases and tend to generate non-existent problems. By doing so, developers force people into buying the extended version to access a set of full capabilities. Oftentimes, Advanced System Protector appears on systems without users’ consent. Soon after spotting it out, most users begin to wonder how to remove Advanced System Protector correctly – and this is exactly what we will answer in the article below.

How Advanced System Protector infected your computer

There is no magic in how Advanced System Protector installs on the systems. First, it can be downloaded from the official website hosted by the developers. However, because it is senseless to use it intentionally, most users receive it without consent. Usually, it happens after installing a third-party program from torrent or file hosting resources. This category of websites covers pirated or cracked software delivered in repacks. Oftentimes, there is additional software included inside of the setup. Users can find it lurking inside of “Advanced” or “Custom” sections. Sometimes, program installers may offer to choose between “Recommended” or “Custom” types of installation to run. If you choose the first, more likely there will be something else installed alongside the main program. To avert this, we recommend being more careful and attentive during the process. Simply deselect unnecessary offers that you do not need.

Remove Advanced System Protector manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full Advanced System Protector removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of Advanced System Protector installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Remove Advanced System Protector from Control Panel

To start removing Advanced System Protector you should remove it using Control Panel. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

Remove Advanced System Protector from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Advanced System Protector.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Advanced System Protector from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Advanced System Protector and click Uninstall.

Remove Advanced System Protector from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Advanced System Protector, click Uninstall.

Remove Advanced System Protector from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Advanced System Protector from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Advanced System Protector in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Advanced System Protector in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Advanced System Protector

In some cases, Advanced System Protector won’t uninstall and gives you message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Advanced System Protector. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing Advanced System Protector folder and files. This happens, because file wtc.exe or service does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Advanced System Protector in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Advanced System Protector

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Advanced System Protector files:


AdvancedSystemProtector.exe
AdvancedSystemProtector.exe.config
AppResource.dll
AspManager.exe
aspsys.dll
categories.ini
Communication.dll
libyara.NET.dll
Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.DLL
Restartexp.exe
scandll.dll
SQLite.Interop.dll
System.Core.dll
System.Data.SQLite.dll
Xceed.Compression.dll
Xceed.Compression.Formats.dll
Xceed.FileSystem.dll
Xceed.Zip.dll


Advanced System Protector folders:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced System Protector
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Systweak\Advanced System Protector\
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced System Protector


Advanced System Protector registry keys:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Advanced System Protector
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{00212D92-C5D8-4ff4-AE50-B20F0F85C40A}\InProcServer32
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\Advanced System Protector
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\AdvancedSystemProtector_RASAPI32

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