APC PowerChute Personal Edition

A guide to uninstall APC PowerChute Personal Edition from your system

You can find on this page detailed information on how to remove APC PowerChute Personal Edition for Windows. It is developed by American Power Conversion Corporation. Take a look here where you can read more on American Power Conversion Corporation. More details about APC PowerChute Personal Edition can be found at http://www.apc.com. Usually the APC PowerChute Personal Edition program is to be found in the C:\Program Files\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition directory, depending on the user's option during install. You can remove APC PowerChute Personal Edition by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line RunDll32. Note that you might be prompted for admin rights. APC PowerChute Personal Edition's primary file takes about 412.00 KB (421888 bytes) and is called PowerChute.exe.

APC PowerChute Personal Edition installs the following the executables on your PC, taking about 2.05 MB (2150691 bytes) on disk.

• apcsystray.exe (408.06 KB)
• dac.exe (381.50 KB)
• Display.exe (216.06 KB)
• ehib.exe (2.41 KB)
• EventViewer.exe (132.07 KB)
• ExecuteProcess.exe (48.00 KB)
• force.exe (152.06 KB)
• mainserv.exe (172.06 KB)
• potdata.exe (24.00 KB)
• PowerChute.exe (412.00 KB)
• worksafe.exe (152.06 KB)

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The current page applies to APC PowerChute Personal Edition version 2.0 alone. You can find below a few links to other APC PowerChute Personal Edition versions:

• 2.1
• 1.5
• 2.1.1
• 1.4

If you are manually uninstalling APC PowerChute Personal Edition we suggest you to check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Folders remaining:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition

The files below remain on your disk by APC PowerChute Personal Edition when you uninstall it:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\AllowStandby.reg
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\APC PCPE for XP.chm
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\apc_pcp1.cat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\apcsystray.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\ApcUps.inf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\dac.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\Disable ADS.reg
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\Display.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\drvutil.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\ehib.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\Enable ADS.reg
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\eventlog.dat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\EventViewer.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\ExecuteProcess.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\force.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\mainserv.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\MsgDll.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\ntutil.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\pchuteres.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\pdcdll.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\potdata.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\PowerChute.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\relnotes.pdf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\res.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\UpsControl.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\UpsDevice.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\worksafe.exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\AppIconCache\175\{7C5A40EF-A0FB-4BFC-874A-C0F2E0B9FA8E}_APC_APC PowerChute Personal Edition_PowerChute_exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\datalog.trk

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following keys will not be removed; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\APC PowerChute Personal Edition
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{5A0C892E-FD1C-4203-941E-0956AED20A6A}

Open regedit.exe in order to remove the following values:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\PowerChute.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\PowerChute.exe.FriendlyAppName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\APC UPS Service\ImagePath

How to uninstall APC PowerChute Personal Edition using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

APC PowerChute Personal Edition is an application released by American Power Conversion Corporation. Sometimes, users try to erase this program. Sometimes this can be efortful because removing this manually requires some experience related to Windows program uninstallation. The best SIMPLE manner to erase APC PowerChute Personal Edition is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





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2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful Windows optimizer.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the applications installed on your computer will appear

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate APC PowerChute Personal Edition or simply click the Search field and type in "APC PowerChute Personal Edition". If it exists on your system the APC PowerChute Personal Edition application will be found very quickly. Notice that when you click APC PowerChute Personal Edition in the list of apps, the following data regarding the application is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This explains the opinion other people have regarding APC PowerChute Personal Edition, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for APC PowerChute Personal Edition:

• The software company is: http://www.apc.com
• The uninstall string is: RunDll32

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. accept the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall APC PowerChute Personal Edition.


8. After removing APC PowerChute Personal Edition, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong APC PowerChute Personal Edition which have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling APC PowerChute Personal Edition using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your system.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to uninstall APC PowerChute Personal Edition by American Power Conversion Corporation from your computer, we are not saying that APC PowerChute Personal Edition by American Power Conversion Corporation is not a good application. This text simply contains detailed info on how to uninstall APC PowerChute Personal Edition in case you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.