How to remove Amigo? Step by step instructions. How to completely remove Amigo browser from your computer: Simple steps
, Opera or the same Microsoft Edge. However, according to statistics, it is installed on 82% of devices. Why such big numbers? The fact is that Amigo is installed along with various programs, when downloading files from the network and in other cases when the user, unwillingly, allows its installation on his computer.
Step-by-step instructions for completely removing the Amigo browser
Since the Amigo browser, although it takes up little space on a Windows 10 computer, users often want to remove it. In order to remove this program in Windows 10, you should follow these steps.
- Right-click on the Start icon and select Control Panel.
- A new window will open. Select the “Programs and Features” section.
- In the list of installed programs, you need to find the Amigo browser, select it and click on the “Delete” button.
IMPORTANT! Amigo is installed along with Mail.Ru services, so to completely remove the browser, you should remove them too.
- Then we confirm the choice of action and wait for the uninstallation to complete.
This is the easiest way to completely remove Amigo from your computer on Windows 10. However, users often notice that the browser appears again. The fact is that in the hidden folder “AppData”, “Local”, “Mail.Ru” a file is stored that is responsible for loading new components. It needs to be removed. To do this you need to do the following:
- Enable the display of hidden files and folders on a Windows computer
- Launch Task Manager and go to the “Processes” tab. Here we find the process “MailRuUpdater.exe”. Right-click on it and select “Open file storage location.” As soon as the folder with the file opens, click on this file again and select “End process”. Then you need to go to the “Startup” tab and also remove the “MailRuUpdater.exe” file from there.
- After completing these steps, you need to restart your PC.
It is important to note that after completely uninstalling the program, it is worth running CCleaner and removing the remains of the application on your Windows 10 computer.
Amigo is a very famous Internet browser that is intrusively installed on computers. Sometimes some utilities may install it as an added bonus if you don't pay attention to advanced setup. It is usually installed by default by the browser. In this case, the only solution is to completely remove Amigo.
The disadvantages of the program include:
- search only through mail.ru;
- intrusive advertising;
- often installed without the user’s knowledge, as a bonus;
- no synchronization;
- complex uninstallation procedure
Uninstallation via the Add or Remove Programs utility
Please be aware that by following this procedure, you will lose all of your personal profile information stored in the browser, including bookmarks, passwords, settings, etc. Follow this procedure at your own risk if any of the other the decisions had no effect.
Click “Start” and go to “Control Panel”, then “Programs”;
Find the application and click "Change/Delete";
Remove the browser from your computer.
Cleaning startup
Open the task manager (in XP, Vista and 7, press the key combination CTRL+ALT+DEL), select the “Processes” tab and find MailRuUpdater. Right-click and click “Open file location.” A window will open with the location of this document. Right-click on MailRuUpdater again and complete the process. After that, go to the previously opened window and physically delete the file.
Hello everyone Today I will talk about what this Amigo program is and how to completely remove it from your computer. Amigo is a browser from the Mail ru company, as soon as you install some software from them, you will have not only Amigo but also other software. Although, to be more precise, not only software, but also shortcuts to popular sites such as Odnoklassniki and VKontakte, Amigo Music, Agent Mail ru, and maybe some others. What’s interesting is that both Mail ru and Yandex are Russian companies, but they work separately and do not promote each other
In general, it cannot be said that the Amigo browser is too bad; it is an ordinary clone of Chrome, with some changes. I just can’t understand why there aren’t many changes, if the Mail ru company is going to make a browser, then let them do something original. Now there are so many of these Chrome clones, well, Comet Browser, Orbitum, the same Yandex Browser... But this didn’t happen before, there were times when Chrome didn’t exist, then clones didn’t appear
To have fewer unnecessary programs on your computer, make it a habit to look carefully at the installation process. There, when you click the Next or Next button, there may also be checkboxes buried somewhere for installing unnecessary software! That's why they need to be removed!
There’s no point in showing the browser itself, it’s a slightly modified Chrome, only Amigo already has links to some sites built into it, not all of which may be of interest to you:
Well, that's it. I only installed Agent Mail.ru, but this zoo of shortcuts appeared on the desktop:
And what’s interesting is that they also managed to get into the taskbar:
And of course they also messed up the Start menu:
Amigo has one unpleasant problem that simply outraged me. This is that after starting the computer, or rather after loading Windows, its processes sit in the task manager:
That is, the amigo.exe process sits like this in the task manager, it seems to me that this is too much! These are not just processes, they are a running browser in hidden mode, specifically so that it opens instantly. But I have no questions here, it was well done, that is, it was a great idea. But the browser itself is based on Chrome (therefore there are several amigo.exe processes), which means that it can eat up a lot of memory! And all these amigo.exe processes hang in the manager, I personally don’t like this, it can even slow down the computer in the end
If you right-click on the process and select the location there:
The folder where this file is located will open. Well, this folder is also fun:
Don’t rush to delete it, we will do it in a civil way
I also forgot to write, there is even an Amigo icon in the tray, through the menu of which you can quickly open the browser:
How to remove Amigo from your computer?
You can remove Amigo in two ways, this is the usual way, that is, how to remove any program in Windows, and you can use a more advanced method. In terms of advanced, I mean the Revo Uninstaller program, I recommend it simply because it effectively removes the program and cleans Windows of remnants of the program itself. I wrote about Revo Uninstaller in simple words in an article.
If there is an Amigo icon in the tray, then right-click on it and select Exit! It’s better to close your browser first and then delete it!
To uninstall Amigo from Windows, click Start and open Control Panel (if you have Windows 10, then press Win + X and select the required item there):
Now find the Programs and Features icon, launch it:
Find Amigo there and right-click, then select Delete:
A window will open where I advise you to check the box so that your work data is also deleted, and you can also immediately assign another default browser:
That's it, the browser will quickly delete itself. And you know, it became so easy, look what was left after Amigo - only one Mail ru Agent badge:
Well, that's it guys, as you can see everything seemed to go smoothly! But with such removal, a little garbage still remains in the registry. Do you want to delete it? No problem! Press Win + R, type the command regedit, then the registry editor will open. There, hold down Ctrl + F, write Amigo in the search field and click the Find Next button. Delete all the results found, and then press F3 to continue the search. And so on until all junk registry keys are deleted. Personally, I found an entire Amigo subfolder in Mail.Ru, it also needs to be deleted:
That's all, it's good that at least all these programs are from Mail.ru, that at least they are not viral. They are simply unnecessary, although I can’t say that they are really stupid. Some people like them, but another thing is that they are often installed on the computer almost forcibly
Today I will show you how to remove the Amigo browser in Windows 10. But first, let’s figure out where it comes from. Be very careful when installing suspicious applications. In the screenshot we see the application installation window, on which by default there are checkboxes to install additional junk along with this application. To remove them, you first had to click on the third checkbox from the top - only after that they will become active. At this step, most inexperienced users make the mistake of clicking download and not paying attention to the advertisements below.
Usually, if you forget to remove them, the Amigo browser and many different programs from Mail will be installed in the kit, which you are guaranteed not to like.
That's it, the Amigo browser has been successfully removed from your computer in Windows 10. But if you have the Amigo dreams browser, then most likely more applications from Mail were installed with it and you will need to remove the remnants of these applications.
How to remove remaining junk from Mail
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Now you know how to completely remove amigo browser on a Windows 10 computer.
How to remove amigo Windows 10 using Revo Uninstaller utility
- Launch the Revo Uninstaller utility.
- We will be able to view all programs installed on the computer.
- Select the program you need to remove and remove it. Next, we scan the system and remove tails from the program.
There are many utilities for removing tails from programs.
Conclusions
When installing programs, be very careful, carefully read what they offer you and what you agree with - usually you can refuse unwanted programs at the installation stage. In this article, you learned how to deal with this annoying Amigo and saw how to completely remove Amigo on Windows 10. I hope this article was useful to you.