Control Center Removal Guide
Do you know what Control Center is?
DESCRIPTION
Control Center is a malicious and deceptive rogue antispyware application. You need to know that the main goal behind this malicious Control Center is to try and obtain your money. Control Center which is a clone of Privacy Center, Safety Center and Privacy Components will make use of every single trick and tactic that it can in order to try and convince you that you have all types of malicious threats running on your computer. This is all done with the purpose of the offering you the full version for a small fee, which promises to remove these threats.
In non-techie terms:
The truth of the matter is that the only real threat that you have on your machine is the malicious Control Center itself. In order to remove Control Center from your computer, it is imperative that you make use of a decent antispyware removal product that is able to both detect and automatically remove Control Center for you. You can try the manual removal process, but you need to be warned that if you do something incorrectly, you run the risks of further damaging your computer.
Aliases: SpywareDefender2009, SpywareDefender 2009, Spyware Defender2009.
Control Center Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions
Control Center Manual Removal Instructions
This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Control Center manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that Control Center will be removed completely. So read the Control Center removal steps carefully and good luck.
Before you start: Close all programs and Internet browsers. Also back up your computer in case you make a mistake and your computer stops working.
- Uninstall Control Center Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall Control Center if found. - To stop Control Center processes (view process removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type taskmgr. The click the Processes tab and you’ll see a list of running processes.
Search and stop these Control Center processes:
wintipgrd.exe
sysguard.exe
wingrd.exe
install[1].exe
tipguard.exe
lsd.exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”. - To Unregister Control Center DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these Control Center DLLs:
iegrd.dll
To locate the Control Center DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type Control Center and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the Control Center DLL path, go to Start and then click on Run. In the Run command box, type cmd, and then click on OK.
To locate the exact DLL path, type cd in order to change the current directory. To display the contents of the directory, use the dir command. To remove the DLL file type regsvr32 /u FILENAME.dll (FILENAME is the name of the file that you want to unregister). - To unregister Control Center registry keys (view registry keys removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type regedit > press OK.
Edit the value (on the right pane) by right-clicking on it and selecting the Modify option. Select the Delete option.
Search and delete these Control Center registry keys: - If your homepage has been changed, go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > click on the General > click Use Default under Home Page. Add the your desired default homepage, then click Apply > click OK. Open a new web browser to check that you have your desired default homepage.
- Remove Control Center Directories.
To find Control Center directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following Control Center directories:
There are no directories.
Right-click on the Control Center folder and select Delete.A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder Control Center and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting Control Center could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes. - To remove Control Center icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
You’ve completed the Control Center manual removal instructions!
I hope this article has helped you solve your Control Center problems. If you want to contribute to this article, post your comment below.
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