How to Uninstall SWF Advanced Protector?

“Had installed SWF Advanced Protector earlier and uninstalled afterwards, but still cannot install other antivirus program which just prompts you to remove SWF Advanced Protector; The attached uninstall progress doesn’t work and also cannot find the SWF Advanced Protector on Control Panel…”---By numerous PC users.

Have you ever met such similar difficulties while you are uninstalling SWF Advanced Protector? SWF Advanced Protector is a well known antivirus program that has got a high reputation among many computer users, millions of broadband customer use its services to protect their computers from outside attackers. But due to some reasons, many people need to uninstall SWF Advanced Protector from their computers, and the difficulty to totally uninstall SWF Advanced Protector has made some people think that it is an impossible mission.

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Why is it hard to uninstall SWF Advanced Protector

Like other antivirus programs such as AAA PDF Password Remover ,ViPNet Safe Disk Mobile ,SWF Encrypt 5.0 DLL ,LightCA ,PDF Decrypter ,SWF Advanced Protector ,SWF Advanced Protector can’t be uninstalled easily and completely by the Windows Add/Remove Programs. You will definetly find that it would wast your much time to uninstall SWF Advanced Protector manually. If you decide to uninstall SWF Advanced Protector by asking the technicians in PC store, it is really not a good idea for you to spend the money for it. It is worthless! Let me tell you why it is so hard to uninstall SWF Advanced Protector. Two main reasons: 1. The original designer of SWF Advanced Protector makes it so difficult to be uninstalled in order to ask their customer keep using the software on the PC. You know, almost every application publisher will has his own business purpose. 2. Most of the PC users are not good at computer skill. They can handle the simple problems but not including the registry issue. To uninstall SWF Advanced Protector completely, you need to clean the leftover, related registry keys and registry entries of it, that is the most difficul part of uninstalling SWF Advanced Protector. If you delete the wrong folder in system disk or important registry list, you would make your PC system crash.

Why do you want to uninstall SWF Advanced Protector?

  • SWF Advanced Protector makes your computer perform very slowly.
  • SWF Advanced Protector has been expired on your PC.
  • Some of its essential files or processes are deleted by accident
  • It is not compatible with your computer system or some other programs
  • It occupies too much system space of your PC.
  • You want to use other antivirus programs then have to uninstall SWF Advanced Protector at first.

Step by step to manually uninstall SWF Advanced Protector

Uninstall SWF Advanced Protector by its attached uninstall program


  1. Go to the install folder of SWF Advanced Protector.
  2. Find out the uninstall process and activate it.
  3. Follow the prompt to finish the removing process.

Theoretically, the SWF Advanced Protector removal could be achieved after finishing the last removing step, but the fact is just not the case, you still can find some stubborn files on it and not allow you to manually delete, which actually means the unsuccessful uninstallation.

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Uninstall SWF Advanced Protector by Windows Add/Remove Programs

1. Open Task Manager, stop SWF Advanced Protector from running.

2. Click on the Start Menu button and then click on the Control Panel.

3. Click the Windows Add/Remove program.

4. A list of programs installed will be populated, this may take a bit of time.

5. In this list please find SWF Advanced Protector and select it by left-clicking once on it.

6. Then click on the Uninstall button to start the uninstall process for SWF Advanced Protector. A wizard should then open, which will guide you through the rest of the uninstall.

Note: When finishing the above four steps, you still need to do an additional job so that the complete removal can be achieve, that is to manually clean out those stubborn leftovers which include its install files and registry entries. But not all the users has the ability to fulfill the final manual removal process, because it is a high risky job do any modification in the Registry Editor which is a crucial part for the computer system, any removal error for those registry entries will probably cause the blue screen error or permanent system crash.

Tips: To uninstall SWF Advanced Protector compeltely, you still need to delete the related registry entries carfully.


We provide you with the guides but it is not recommended.

Go to registry editor to get rid of SWF Advanced Protector registry keys and values:
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SWF Advanced Protector)
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SWF Advanced Protector)
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\eg ui)

Click on the START menu again and get in the Control Panel and then Folder Options then View and choose Show Hidden Files and Folders, delete the following folders:

(C:\Program Files\SWF Advanced Protector )
(C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SWF Advanced Protector)
(C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\SWF Advanced Protector)


SWF Advanced Protector Registry Details
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F4F5B989-1ACC-438A-BFC9-DA15FCC49CB4} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\picasa HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SWF Advanced Protector \shell HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SWF Advanced Protector\shell\open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SWF Advanced Protector\shell\open\command HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SWF Advanced Protector.autoplay HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SWF Advanced Protector.autoplay\shell HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SWF Advanced Protector.autoplay\shell\import HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ SWF Advanced Protector.autoplay\shell\import\command HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\SWF Advanced Protectorimportpicturesonarrival HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SWF Advanced Protector\url protocol HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SWF Advanced Protector.autoplay\defaulticon HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\google\SWF Advanced Protector\SWF Advanced Protector \runtime\apppath HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\main\default_search_url HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\main\search bar HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\main\search page HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\search\default_search_url HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\search\searchassistant HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\searchurl\provider HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\search assistant\defaultsearchurl HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\eventhandlersdefaultselection\showpicturesonarrival HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\version vector\ SWF Advanced ProtectorHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows nt\CurrentVersion\prefetcher\lasttracefailure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows nt\CurrentVersion\prefetcher\tracesprocessed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows nt\CurrentVersion\prefetcher\tracessuccessful HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\SWF Advanced Protectorimportpicturesonarrival\action HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\SWF Advanced Protectorimportpicturesonarrival\defaulticon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\SWF Advanced Protectorimportpicturesonarrival\invokeprogid HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\SWF Advanced Protectorimportpicturesonarrival\invokeverb HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\SWF Advanced Protectorimportpicturesonarrival\provider HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\DisplayName HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\DisplayVersion HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\HelpLink HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\InstallLocation HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\Publisher HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\UninstallString HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\URLInfoAbout HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\VersionMajor HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SWF Advanced Protector\VersionMinor

Uninstall errors you may encounter

Sometimes, you may encounter some error messages during the uninstalling procession. It means some of the files of this application are missing or you don't have the permission to uninstall it manually.




In this case, you should use some third party uninstall tools to force uninstall programs you don't need any more. You can avoid such uninstall error message and finish the removal powerfully.

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Step1: Free Download SWF Advanced Protector Uninstaller, install and run it.

Step2: Select the program you want to uninstall and click the “Uninstall” button.

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