How Can I Uninstall Dell PC TuneUp?

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Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall Dell PC TuneUp but still get the same error message? Ryan had an Inspiron 1520 Dell Computer with Windows Vista for about a month now. The other day I received a pop-up message saying his trial subscription to Dell Automated PC Tuneup was up. So he decided to uninstall it as it won’t let him to do a defragment or a disk cleanup or other maintenance tasks on PC without giving any solution. It has frustrated him for weeks now, and even when he go to the file itself on my hard drive, it won’t even let me simply delete it and send it to the recycling bin. How do you get this devil thing off your computer?
Issue on removing Dell PC TuneUp
Ryan’s brother has spent the last couple days trying to do research to find out exactly what the Dell PC TuneUp does but the Dell Support site is extremely unhelpful. When he tries to uninstall it through control panel, he gets message saying “An Invalid character was found in text content. Line: 13 LocalDi8ae(C:).”
and then when i shut that down, I get another message saying:
“Access violation at address 13520460 in module ‘PCTuneUp.exe’. Read of address 00000310.”
Remove Preinstalled Dell PC TuneUp
If, for some more reason you decided to uninstall Dell PC TuneUp from your computer but you are not able to do so from hard disk, you need to try the built-in uninstaller first.

1. Log in to your computer, click on the “Start” button and open the Control Panel.
2. If you are on a Windows XP machine, select the “Add/Remove Programs” section from Control Panel. If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7, select the “Programs and Features” section from the Control Panel.
3. Wait for the list of currently installed programs to populate.
4. Go through the list entry by entry and make note of Dell PC TuneUp that you do not want.
5. If you are on Windows XP, you can click on the program name and select the “Remove” button to start the removal process.
6. If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can right-click on the program name and select the “Uninstall” option to start the removal process.
7. Follow the automated uninstall process through to completion for Dell PC TuneUp program.

You may be asked to restart your computer after removing Dell PC TuneUp. If you still detect Dell PC TuneUp or can’t install the new version of it after restarting your computer, you should be resorting to third party removal tool such as Perfect Uninstaller.

A full authorized Perfect Uninstaller will work only if you right click on the program icon or file of Dell PC TuneUp. All the removal process of targeted program like Kodak all-in-one Printer Software will be done in a few minutes after going through hard drive and registry.