What is PrintOnKey?
PrintOnKey is classified as an annoying adware for it often appears on users PC via free programs downloaded from third parties without obvious notification and generates loads of advertisements to interrupt users' normal online activities. Due to these two nasty behaviors, people often rank in low acceptance of PrintOnKey.
PrintOnKey can be added onto common web browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox as an extension or add-on. When installed, it plants numerous pop-up ads in your browser pages whether you want them or not.
Apart from bringing you many annoyances, the ads by PrintOnKey entice you to click on and result in malicious infections like Trojan. In short, you are not recommended to keep PrintOnKey on your PC.
How to remove PrintOnKey easily and completely?
Method A: Remove PrintOnKey Manually
Step 1. Uninstall PrintOnKey in Control Panel.
Click Start button> Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find suspicious program and right click on it and then click Uninstall to uninstall the program.
Step 2. Remove PrintOnKey extension or add-ons from your browsers
Internet Explorer:
1) Start Internet Explorer and choose "Tools" >"Manage add-ons".
2) Choose "Toolbars and Extensions", then find and remove related programs.
3) Restart browser to complete the whole process.
Google Chrome:
1) Open Google Chrome, click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" icon in top right corner.
2) Select "Settings" > "Extensions", then find and delete add-ons.
3) Restart the browser to complete the whole process.
Mozilla Firefox:
1) Start Firefox and choose "Tools" > "Add-ons"> "Extensions".
2) Search for related items and remove them.
3) Restart Firefox to complete the process.
Step 3. Delete all the infection associated files
1) Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you're in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick "Show hidden files and folders" and non-tick "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" and then press "OK".
2) All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:
%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>
Step 4. Remove all the infection registry entries
Hit Win+R keys, type "regedit" in Run box, and then click "OK" to open Registry Editor
Delete them all:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet
ExplorerMain “Default_Page_URL”
HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[adware
name]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware
name]
Step 5. Restart your computer to take effect.
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Method B: Remove PrintOnKey Automatically
Step 1. Remove PrintOnKey with SpyHunter
SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware,etc.
3) When the installation is complete, click the "Finish" button.
Step 2. Optimize your PC using RegCure Pro
RegCure Pro is an advanced optimizer which
is able to solve your computer system problems, remove your privacy items
produced by online searches, delete junk files, uninstall malware and fix
performance problems.
(Please be at ease for RegCure Pro, since it will never bundle with any programs and it can get along with existing security programs without any conflicts.)
4) When the System Scan is done, click "Fix All" button to correct all the security risks and potential causes of your computer slow performance.
In Conclusion:
The longer PrintOnKey stays on your PC, the more troubles it will cause. There is no better way than to prevent or remove PrintOnKey immediately to guarantee that your PC may not engage to endless pop-up ads and other unwanted programs.
Download SpyHunter to remove PrintOnKey quickly.
Download RegCure Pro to fix slow PC performance easily.
Note: The free version of SpyHunter/ RegCure Pro is only for detection. To remove the malicious threats/ junk files on your PC, you will need to purchase the removal tool.
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