PDFCreator

A guide to uninstall PDFCreator from your PC

This web page contains thorough information on how to remove PDFCreator for Windows. It was created for Windows by pdfforge GmbH. Check out here where you can find out more on pdfforge GmbH. Click on https://www.pdfforge.org to get more info about PDFCreator on pdfforge GmbH's website. Usually the PDFCreator program is installed in the C:\Program Files\PDFCreator folder, depending on the user's option during setup. You can uninstall PDFCreator by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\unins000.exe. Note that you might get a notification for administrator rights. The application's main executable file has a size of 87.48 KB (89576 bytes) on disk and is titled PDFCreator.exe.

The executable files below are installed together with PDFCreator. They occupy about 20.65 MB (21651942 bytes) on disk.

• DeleteMonitorDll.exe (300.59 KB)
• ErrorReport.exe (72.98 KB)
• PDFCreator.exe (87.48 KB)
• PrinterHelper.exe (6.31 MB)
• RepairFolderPermissions.exe (36.79 KB)
• SetupHelper.exe (54.98 KB)
• unins000.exe (708.02 KB)
• gswin32c.exe (140.00 KB)
• architect-setup.exe (12.98 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 3.4.1 of PDFCreator. You can find below info on other releases of PDFCreator:

• 3.0.1
• 3.4.0
• 4.4.3
• 3.1.2
• 2.5.3
• 5.0.1
• 3.0.0
• 2.3
• 1.7.3
• 5.0.2
• 2.4.1
• 5.0.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.5.0
• 3.2.0
• 3.1.1
• 4.4.1
• 3.3.0
• 3.2.2
• 2.5.1
• 3.0.201
• 3.0.2
• 4.3.0
• 2.5.0
• 4.4.0
• 5.0.3
• 3.2.2.13514
• 3.3.2
• 2.3.2
• 2.5.2
• 4.4.2
• 2.3.1
• 2.4.0
• 3.5.1
• 3.1.0
• 3.0.3
• 2.3.0
• 3.3.0.15261
• 3.3.1

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PDFCreator has the habit of leaving behind some leftovers.

Folders found on disk after you uninstall PDFCreator from your computer:

• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator
• C:\UserNames\UserName\AppData\Local\pdfforge\PDFCreator

The files below are left behind on your disk when you remove PDFCreator:

• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Banners.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\C#.Net\COM_TestForm\COM_TestForm\app.config
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\Basics\GetPrinterDevices.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\Basics\MergedFiles2Tif.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\Basics\MultipleFiles2Tif.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\Basics\TestPage2JPG.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\Basics\TestPage2PDF.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\Basics\TestPage2Tif.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\Basics\TestPageMergeTarget.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\AttachmentPage.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\BackgroundPage.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\ChangeOutputFormat.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\ConvertFileAsync.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\CoverPage.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\EmailClient.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\JpegSettings.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\MergeAllJobs.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\JS Scripts\How To\PdfSecuritySettings.js
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\VB.Net\COM_TestForm\COM_TestForm\app.config
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\VBScript\BackgroundPage.vbs
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\VBScript\CoverPage.vbs
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\VBScript\JpegSettings.vbs
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\VBScript\MergedMultipleFiles2Tif.vbs
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\COM Scripts\VBScript\TestPage2PDF.vbs
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\CommonServiceLocator.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\DataStorage.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\DeleteMonitorDll.exe
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Dropbox.Api.Net40.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Dropbox.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\ErrorReport.exe
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\ftplib.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Bin\gsdll32.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Bin\gswin32c.exe
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\cbjc600.ppd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\cbjc800.ppd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\eps2eps.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\eps2eps.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\Fontmap.ATM
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ghostpdf.cat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ghostpdf.inf
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ghostpdf.ppd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gsbj.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gsdj.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gsdj500.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gslj.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gslp.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gsnd.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gsndt.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gssetgs.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gssetgs32.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gssetgs64.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gst.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\gstt.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\lp386.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\lp386r2.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\lpgs.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\lpr2.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\pdf2dsc.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\pdf2ps.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\pdf2ps.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\pf2afm.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\pf2afm.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\pfbtopfa.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2ascii.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2ascii.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2epsi.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2epsi.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf12.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf12.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf13.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf13.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf14.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdf14.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2pdfxx.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2ps.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2ps.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2ps2.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\ps2ps2.cmd
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\Lib\wmakebat.bat
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\HtmlAgilityPack.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\ITextProcessing.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\itextsharp.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\LicenseValidator.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\LicenseValidator.Interface.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\MahApps.Metro.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\MahApps.Metro.SimpleChildWindow.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Newtonsoft.Json.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\NGettext.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\NLog.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Notifications.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Obsidian.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Optional.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDF Architect\architect-setup.exe
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.Actions.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.ActionsInterface.dll
• C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.COM.dll

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the data below:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\PDFCreator.ShellContextMenu
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PDFCreator.JobQueue
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PDFCreator.PDFCreatorObj
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PDFCreator.Shell2
• HKEY_CURRENT_UserName\Software\pdfforge\PDFCreator
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Tracing\PDFCreator_RASAPI32
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Tracing\PDFCreator_RASMANCS
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{0001B4FD-9EA3-4D90-A79E-FD14BA3AB01D}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\pdfforge\PDFCreator
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\PDFCreator-3_4_1-Setup_RASAPI32
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\PDFCreator-3_4_1-Setup_RASMANCS
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\PDFCreator

Use regedit.exe to delete the following additional values from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.exe

How to erase PDFCreator with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

PDFCreator is an application offered by the software company pdfforge GmbH. Sometimes, users decide to uninstall this program. Sometimes this can be troublesome because performing this manually requires some know-how regarding Windows internal functioning. The best QUICK way to uninstall PDFCreator is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and general utility to optimize your Windows system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire the program's design and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good Windows tool.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs button


5. All the programs installed on the PC will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate PDFCreator or simply activate the Search feature and type in "PDFCreator". The PDFCreator app will be found automatically. When you select PDFCreator in the list of apps, some data regarding the application is shown to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have regarding PDFCreator, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you are about to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for PDFCreator:

• The publisher is: https://www.pdfforge.org
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\unins000.exe

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will come up. accept the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically uninstall PDFCreator.


8. After removing PDFCreator, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items of PDFCreator that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing PDFCreator with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove PDFCreator by pdfforge GmbH from your PC, we are not saying that PDFCreator by pdfforge GmbH is not a good application. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove PDFCreator supposing you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.