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A guide to uninstall Prevent Restore from your computer

This web page contains detailed information on how to uninstall Prevent Restore for Windows. It is made by PrivacyRoot.com. You can read more on PrivacyRoot.com or check for application updates here. You can get more details on Prevent Restore at . Usually the Prevent Restore application is placed in the C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore directory, depending on the user's option during setup. The full command line for uninstalling Prevent Restore is "C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore\net1.exe" uninstall. Note that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you may get a notification for admin rights. PreventRestore.exe is the Prevent Restore's main executable file and it occupies around 189.24 KB (193784 bytes) on disk.

The executables below are part of Prevent Restore. They occupy about 720.39 KB (737680 bytes) on disk.

  • net1.exe (531.15 KB)
  • PreventRestore.exe (189.24 KB)


The current page applies to Prevent Restore version 4.09 alone. You can find below info on other versions of Prevent Restore:

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Some files and registry entries are regularly left behind when you uninstall Prevent Restore.

You should delete the folders below after you uninstall Prevent Restore:
  • C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Prevent Restore
  • C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Prevent Restore

The files below remain on your disk when you remove Prevent Restore:
  • C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore\all.index
  • C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore\background1.png
  • C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore\background2.png
  • C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore\Languages\bg.ini

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following keys will not be removed; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\wfds

Open regedit.exe to delete the registry values below from the Windows Registry:
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\wfds\DisplayIcon
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\wfds\InstallLocation
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\wfds\ModifyPath
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\wfds\UninstallString


A way to uninstall Prevent Restore from your computer with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Prevent Restore is a program by the software company PrivacyRoot.com. Some people decide to uninstall this application. This is efortful because removing this manually requires some knowledge related to Windows program uninstallation. One of the best QUICK procedure to uninstall Prevent Restore is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around tool to optimize your PC.

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  • go to Download Link
  • download the program by pressing the DOWNLOAD button
  • install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful system optimizer.

3. Press the General Tools button
Go to General Tools


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs tool
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. A list of the applications existing on the computer will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find Prevent Restore or simply activate the Search field and type in "Prevent Restore". The Prevent Restore application will be found very quickly. When you select Prevent Restore in the list of applications, some data about the application is shown to you:


  • Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have about Prevent Restore, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information about the app you are about to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.
For instance you can see that for Prevent Restore:





  • The web site of the program is: http://privacyroot.com/software/tosite.pl?to=site&pcid=NET184672bda5796099e1fc22cbe790dc305&language=en&scn=wfds&affiliate=&pcidc=1
  • The uninstall string is: "C:\Program Files\Prevent Restore\net1.exe" uninstall
7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall Prevent Restore.
Uninstall Prevent Restore


8. After removing Prevent Restore, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of Prevent Restore that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling Prevent Restore using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

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



Geographical user distribution

  • Windows 7 (6.1)
  • 10.0
  • Windows 8.1 (6.3)
  • Windows Vista (6.0)
  • Windows XP (5.1)
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Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice to uninstall Prevent Restore by PrivacyRoot.com from your computer, nor are we saying that Prevent Restore by PrivacyRoot.com is not a good application for your PC. This text simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Prevent Restore supposing you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2015-02-05 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2015-02-05 13:54:37.540