Quick PC Booster - How to remove

Quick PC Booster is a PC optimizer that promises to help your computer run better. However, it’s best to stay away from it. Antivirus vendors consider it dangerous and even harmful because it uses deception to scare people into buying the full version.

Quick PC Booster is made by XPortSoft, the company that also released One Click Privacy, Disk Optimizer Pro, and other potentially unwanted programs.

About Quick PC Booster in short:

Threat type	Potentially unwanted program.
What makes Quick PC Booster harmful	It detects harmless items and makes them seem like problems for your computer, it’s a registry “cleaner”.
How it is installed	Downloaded from its home page, downloaded from freeware download sites.
How to remove Quick PC Booster	Uninstall it manually or with an antivirus program, find and remove malware with antivirus programs, like Spyhunter.

Why is Quick PC Booster harmful?

Quick PC Booster is supposed to be a program to make your computer run better. It promises to optimize a computer’s performance by deleting unnecessary data, managing your startup items, and helping you uninstall programs.

However, Quick PC Booster is actually malware. Antivirus programs label it as Malware, Trojan, Unsafe, and Potentially Unwanted: Virustotal.com.

That’s because Quick PC Booster tries to deceive its users. When Quick PC Booster scans your computer, it detects various “items that need to be optimized”. Many of these items are completely harmless and so small as to be meaningless for freeing up any free space on your PC. Some of the items are actually useful and should not be deleted.

The fact that Quick PC Booster implies that you need to clean your computer by removing these items makes it seem as though the files that it finds are somehow harmful and that Quick PC Booster is helping you by deleting them. Really, though, it’s just trying to appear useful in order to get you to buy its full version. It causes unnecessary stress by showing these fake detections, too.

In addition, the registry cleaning option that Quick PC Booster includes is a little dubious; Microsoft, the developer of Windows, advises against using registry cleaners. This is because the registry is sensitive: one wrong change could break your programs in unexpected ways.

Meanwhile, Quick PC Booster runs regularly and scans your computer, which consumes resources, too. In the end, it can make your PC run slower.

Because of all these reasons, it’s not surprising that Quick PC Booster is considered to be a potentially unwanted and even dangerous program.

It’s not like deleting junk files is entirely useless. It’s just that there’s no use deleting them as often as Quick PC Booster wants to.

For computer cleaning, you can use the free tools that Microsoft has built into Windows, such as Storage Sense and Disk Cleanup: Support.microsoft.com. You can also simply reset your PC while keeping your files.

How to remove Quick PC Booster

Uninstall it from your Settings or from the Control Panel. You might be asked to allow Quick PC Booster to make changes to your computer – that’s normal. You apparently also need to reboot your computer in order for all of Quick PC Booster’s files to be removed, as it normally leaves some behind as it’s uninstalled.

In addition, it’s advisable to scan your computer with an antivirus program, such as Spyhunter, to see if any malicious or unsafe files are still present on your device. After all, if one unwanted program is on your computer, it’s likely that others are also present. That’s because potentially unwanted and malicious apps often spread in bundles or promote one another.

For example, Quick PC Booster has an affiliate program and its free version can be downloaded from many various freeware download sites. Some of these download sites bundle the software that they offer with adware viruses and other potentially unwanted programs. So, if you downloaded Quick PC Booster from one such software download site, it would be a good idea to make sure that no other malware was installed on your device.

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Uninstall Quick PC Booster manually

How to remove Quick PC Booster using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Quick PC Booster install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Quick PC Booster . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Quick PC Booster easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.