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How to uninstall Web Companion from your system

This page is about Web Companion for Windows. Here you can find details on how to remove it from your PC. The Windows release was created by Lavasoft. More data about Lavasoft can be seen here. Please open if you want to read more on Web Companion on Lavasoft's page. Web Companion is frequently installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application folder, however this location may vary a lot depending on the user's choice when installing the program. The complete uninstall command line for Web Companion is C:\Program Files (x86)\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanionInstaller.exe --uninstall. WebCompanion.exe is the programs's main file and it takes about 7.04 MB (7379744 bytes) on disk.

Web Companion is composed of the following executables which take 7.52 MB (7880096 bytes) on disk:

  • Ad-Aware Web Companion.exe (126.28 KB)
  • Lavasoft.WCAssistant.WinService.exe (25.28 KB)
  • WebCompanion.exe (7.04 MB)
  • WebCompanion.Loader.exe (17.78 KB)
  • WebCompanionInstaller.exe (319.28 KB)


This info is about Web Companion version 4.3.1930.3764 only. For more Web Companion versions please click below:

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Some files and registry entries are regularly left behind when you uninstall Web Companion.

You should delete the folders below after you uninstall Web Companion:
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion
  • C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Lavasoft\Web Companion

The files below were left behind on your disk when you remove Web Companion:
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Ad-Aware Web Companion.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\BCUEngineS.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\BCUSDK.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\BrowserDock.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\BrowserManager.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\BrowserParameters.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\de-DE\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\de-DE\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\de-DE\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\de-DE\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\DotNetZip.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\en-US\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\en-US\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\en-US\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\en-US\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Esent.Interop.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\es-ES\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\es-ES\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\es-ES\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\es-ES\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Extension\@wcextensionff.xpi
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\fr-CA\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\fr-CA\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\fr-CA\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\fr-CA\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Interop.IWshRuntimeLibrary.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Interop.LavasoftTcpServiceLib.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Interop.SHDocVw.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Interop.Shell32.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\it-IT\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\it-IT\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\it-IT\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\it-IT\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ja-JP\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ja-JP\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ja-JP\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ja-JP\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.AdAware.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.adblocker.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.AppCore.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Automation.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.AvastWrapper.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Common.Platform.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Compression.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.CSharp.Utilities.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Events.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.IEController.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Omni.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.PersistantStorage.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.PUP.Management.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.SearchProtect.Business.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.SearchProtect.Repositories.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Settings.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.SmartAssemblyUI.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.SysInfo.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Uninstall.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.UpdateComponents.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Utils.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.Utils.SqlLite.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.WCAssistant.Service.Logger.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.WCAssistant.WcfService.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.WCAssistant.WinService.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\liblz4.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\log4net.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\LogicNP.EZShellExtensions.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\LZ4.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Microsoft.mshtml.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\MozCompressor.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Newtonsoft.Json.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\pt-BR\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\pt-BR\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\pt-BR\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\pt-BR\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ru-RU\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ru-RU\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ru-RU\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ru-RU\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\SmartAssembly.ReportException.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\SmartExceptionsCore.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\System.Data.SQLite.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\System.Data.SQLite.Linq.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\tr-TR\Lavasoft.ArrowHelper.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\tr-TR\Lavasoft.WebBar.UI.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\tr-TR\WebCompanion.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\tr-TR\WebCompanionInstaller.resources.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\ucrtbased.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\vcruntime140d.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebcompaionReimageIcon.ico
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanion.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanion.Loader.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanionExtensionIE.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanionIcon.ico
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanionIcon_Pro.ico
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanionInstaller.exe
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanionInstaller.pdb
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\x64\SQLite.Interop.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\x86\SQLite.Interop.dll

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the data below:
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lavasoft\Web Companion
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lavasoft\Web Companion

Open regedit.exe in order to delete the following registry values:
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WCAssistantService\ImagePath


How to delete Web Companion from your computer with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Web Companion is a program by the software company Lavasoft. Frequently, people choose to remove this application. This is hard because doing this manually takes some skill related to Windows internal functioning. One of the best QUICK action to remove Web Companion is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around utility to take care of your computer.

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  • go to Download Link
  • download the program by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
  • install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire the program's design and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good Windows tool.

3. Press the General Tools category
Go to General Tools


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


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

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate Web Companion or simply activate the Search field and type in "Web Companion". If it exists on your system the Web Companion application will be found very quickly. When you click Web Companion in the list of applications, some information about the application is made available to you:


  • Safety rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about Web Companion, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information about the app you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.
For instance you can see that for Web Companion:





  • The web site of the program is: http://www.lavasoft.com
  • The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\WebCompanionInstaller.exe --uninstall
7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will come up. accept the uninstall by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Web Companion.
Uninstall Web Companion


8. After removing Web Companion, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Web Companion that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Web Companion with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

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



Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice to remove Web Companion by Lavasoft from your computer, we are not saying that Web Companion by Lavasoft is not a good application for your PC. This text simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove Web Companion 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' computers.

2018-09-19 / Written by Daniel Statescu for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2018-09-19 04:50:43.380