Scanner Maintenance

A guide to uninstall Scanner Maintenance from your system

Scanner Maintenance is a computer program. This page is comprised of details on how to remove it from your computer. It was developed for Windows by Contex. More information on Contex can be found here. Please follow http://www.contex.com if you want to read more on Scanner Maintenance on Contex's web page. The program is often installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Contex\Scanner Maintenance directory. Keep in mind that this path can vary being determined by the user's decision. Scanner Maintenance's full uninstall command line is RunDll32. The application's main executable file occupies 616.00 KB (630784 bytes) on disk and is called SM.exe.

The following executable files are incorporated in Scanner Maintenance. They occupy 965.50 KB (988672 bytes) on disk.

• Language.exe (41.50 KB)
• SM.exe (616.00 KB)
• SV.exe (308.00 KB)

This info is about Scanner Maintenance version 2.1 only. You can find below info on other application versions of Scanner Maintenance:

• 2.4.0
• 2.4.2
• 2.1.2
• 1.00.0000
• 2.4.1

Some files and registry entries are regularly left behind when you remove Scanner Maintenance.

You should delete the folders below after you uninstall Scanner Maintenance:

• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Scanner Maintenance
• C:\Program Files\Contex\Scanner Maintenance

Files remaining:

• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Scanner Maintenance\Readme.lnk
• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Scanner Maintenance\Scanner Maintenance.lnk
• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Scanner Maintenance\Uninstall.lnk
• C:\Program Files\Contex\Scanner Maintenance\C40209xx.it8

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

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Contex\Scanner Maintenance
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{689CA6DD-DA9F-4B2A-9EE6-0CDB29DBB3AE}

Open regedit.exe in order to delete the following registry values:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\6AF2505A48DDC1748AFCD1C4B21BEA75\SourceList\LastUsedSource
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\6AF2505A48DDC1748AFCD1C4B21BEA75\SourceList\Net\1
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\6AF2505A48DDC1748AFCD1C4B21BEA75\InstallProperties\InstallLocation
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\6AF2505A48DDC1748AFCD1C4B21BEA75\InstallProperties\InstallSource

A way to delete Scanner Maintenance using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Scanner Maintenance is a program offered by Contex. Some users try to uninstall it. This is troublesome because uninstalling this manually requires some skill regarding Windows program uninstallation. One of the best SIMPLE procedure to uninstall Scanner Maintenance is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





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

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good Windows optimizer.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature


5. All the applications installed on the PC will appear

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find Scanner Maintenance or simply activate the Search field and type in "Scanner Maintenance". If it is installed on your PC the Scanner Maintenance application will be found very quickly. When you click Scanner Maintenance in the list of apps, some data regarding the application is made available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have regarding Scanner Maintenance, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the program you want to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Scanner Maintenance:

• The publisher is: http://www.contex.com
• The uninstall string is: RunDll32

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will appear. accept the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall Scanner Maintenance.


8. After uninstalling Scanner Maintenance, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Scanner Maintenance that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing Scanner Maintenance with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your disk.

Your Windows computer will remain clean, speedy and able to run without errors or problems.

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Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to uninstall Scanner Maintenance by Contex from your computer, we are not saying that Scanner Maintenance by Contex is not a good application for your computer. This page only contains detailed info on how to uninstall Scanner Maintenance supposing you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.