Uninstalling Kaspersky Lab products. Removal using standard OS tools

To prepare the system for installing a new antivirus, you need to know how to completely remove Kaspersky antivirus from the OS.

Company software products Kaspersky Lab not so easy to remove.

Even after destroying the executable file, there remains a lot of additional files and folders that interfere with installation or correct operation new antivirus.

Therefore, after standard cleaning it is necessary to carry out additional search remaining program components and completely erase them from the user’s computer.

Types of errors when uninstalling Kaspersky

Often, PC and laptop users encounter the problem of uninstalling a program already at the initial stage - the system displays an error when trying to erase the application through the control panel.

A window with error code 1316 is also quite common - it occurs if the user installed the software product incorrectly and tries to erase the utility from the computer.

The antivirus may shut down spontaneously and interrupt scanning.

If you are using trial period, when trying to renew a license, the following window may also appear:

As a rule, error 1316 is a consequence of an attempt to uninstall a program through the control panel.

Let's take a closer look at how to deal with errors when trying to erase a program and how to properly remove all antivirus files from operating system.

Removal using standard OS tools

This instruction suitable for operating rooms Windows systems 7/8/10 and for next versions antivirus from Kaspersky Lab:

• Kaspersky ONE;
• Antivirus versions 2012 and 2013;
• Internet Security Kaspersky 2013;
• CRYSTAL antivirus version.

Remember! Never try to erase applications, and especially antivirus programs, by deleting the utility folder from the directoryProgramFiles on your hard drive. This method is incorrect and may lead to further errors when trying to remove the software.

To begin the removal process using standard operating system tools, follow the instructions below:

• If you previously received error 1316 when trying to erase the utility, before uninstalling, look for the Kaspersky anti-virus icon on the taskbar. Click on it right click mouse and then click on the “Exit...” line.
  This will stop the utility from working and will allow it to be completely removed;
• Turn on the system control panel window and open the Add or Remove Components window;
• Select the software product you want to remove and click on it double click mouse and click on the “Delete/Change” button. The following window will appear;

• If you are using the eighth version of Windows OS, you don’t have to turn on the control panel. Open start screen and right-click on the antivirus tile. Click on the delete field;
• IN start window installation/removal wizard, click on the “Next” button;
• In the window that appears, uncheck all the items that the program offers to save, as shown in the figure. And go to the next window;

• Now confirm the deletion. To do this, the program will require administrator rights;

• Wait for the wizard to complete and close the window. Now be sure to restart your personal computer or laptop for all the changes to take effect.

Removal using the Remover Tool

If you were unable to erase all elements of antivirus software (error code 2753 or 1316 appeared) from your computer using standard method, you must use one or more third party programs.

Kaspersky Lab has developed a special small application that can solve the problem incorrect deletion programs from the computer operating system.

It's called Kaspersky Lab Products Remover.

The utility allows you to delete everything software products, which are released by the development company.

Download the archive, then extract it and run it executable file to begin installation. After installation is complete, restart your device and turn on the application.

To erase a program, select it from the list of detected products on your computer. Now enter the code from the picture to authenticate and press the delete key.

Wait until the procedure is completed and restart your computer again.

In this article I will talk about how to remove Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security and any other Kaspersky Lab product. Let's look at the 3 simplest and most effective ways.

How to remove Kaspersky Anti-Virus using KLP Remover

Kaspersky Lab Products Remover is official utility Kaspersky Lab, created just for complete removal any product from this company. You can download the utility from the official website at http://media.kaspersky.com/utilities/consumerutilities/kavremover.zip. Save the archive to your desktop, then extract it. Right-click on kavremover.zip and select “Extract to kavremover” from the list (for this you must have any archiver installed, for example WinRar). Go to the unpacked folder and run kavremover.exe. A window with a license agreement will appear, click “I agree”.

In the next window, enter the code from the picture into the line and click “Delete”. After deleting, a message will appear asking you to restart your computer, naturally agree. If KAV Remover does not automatically detect which product you have installed, you will need to select manually from the list and also click “Delete”. After restarting the computer, Kaspersky will be permanently removed.

How to remove Kaspersky Anti-Virus using the Windows Uninstall Program Wizard

First, unload your antivirus. To do this, find in the tray ( running programs in the lower right corner of the screen) Kaspersky icon, right-click on it and select “Exit”. Go to Control Panel through the Start menu.

Click "Uninstall a program" (if you don't have it, then "Programs and Features" or "Add or Remove Programs", depending on your version of Windows).

Find it in the list and click on Kaspersky Antivirus or Kaspersky Internet Security, click on the “Uninstall/Change” button above the list (on the right in Windows XP).

The Kaspersky installation wizard will start, click “Next”.

In the next window, uncheck all the boxes if you want Kaspersky Anti-Virus to be completely removed. Click Next.

In the “Program Removal Confirmation” window, click “Delete”.

Kaspersky will delete itself and ask you to restart your computer. Click Yes.

How to remove Kaspersky Anti-Virus using specialized programs

You can remove any Kaspersky product using specialized programs, such as Revo Uninstaller, Advanced Uninstaller, Magic Uninstaller,IObit Uninstaller, Uninstall Tool... Launch any of these programs, select your Kaspersky product from the list and click “Uninstall” in the program panel. Next, the removal procedure is exactly the same as in previous method. Look at the pictures and you won't be mistaken. That's all.

The thing is that the standard removal methods of many antivirus programs are not always suitable for completely getting rid of parts of files in the registry, startup, etc.

To completely remove all Kaspersky Lab products, the same laboratory invented the kavremover utility. How to use it to completely remove Kaspersky Internet Security from your PC:

Instructions for removing Kaspersky Internet Security

1. Download the kavremover utility from its official website.

2. Reboot your computer into safe mode. To do this, during reboot, press the F8 key and select safe mode to boot the PC.

In this mode, you will have full access to all protected files and entries in the registry, as well as in startup. Using safe mode, you can easily remove Kaspersky antivirus from your PC.

3. Run the downloaded file kavremover.exe. agree with all clauses of the license.

5. Click the “Delete” button and wait until the utility completely cleans the PC of the antivirus and its fragments.

Restart your computer and you're done! Your PC is completely cleared of Kaspersky antivirus.

During installation, it searches and displays a list of incompatible software if it is installed on the computer. You can uninstall each application or continue installation without removing detected software.

You can also skip checking for incompatible software.

Attention! Use this option only if you are absolutely sure that third-party antivirus software has been completely removed, but for some reason continues to be detected by the program installation wizard. Otherwise, after installing the program, malfunctions in the operation of the operating system may occur, including complete inoperability!

Note. Products version 2016 can be installed “on top” of product versions 2009-2015 with preservation current parameters protection and license information, their removal is not required.

1. How to install a program without removing incompatible software

In the window Incompatible software detected you can do the following:

• Remove detected incompatible software. Do the following:
  • Check the boxes next to programs that can be removed automatically. In this case Kaspersky Internet Security 2016 will remove incompatible software. If for some reason this did not happen, then .
  • To remove programs that cannot be removed automatically, click on the link Delete manually. After manually removing the software, click on the button Update.

• In the window To install the program you must restart your computer click on the button Restart your computer. After rebooting the computer, installation Kaspersky Internet Security 2016 will continue automatically.

• Click the button Continue. If you want to leave incompatible software on your computer, then click on the button in the window Continue.

Attention! Installation without removing incompatible software is at the user's risk and may result in incorrect operation Kaspersky Internet Security 2016.

2. How to skip the check for incompatible software

Attention! By skipping the check for incompatible software, you accept responsibility for possible consequences product incompatibility Kaspersky Lab with other programs.

For electronic version

1. Create a shortcut for installation file Kaspersky Internet Security 2016. To do this, right-click on it and context menu select Create a shortcut.

1. Right-click on the created shortcut and select Properties.

1. On the tab Label in the field Object insert the parameter at the end of the line pSKIPPRODUCTCHECK=1.
2. Click on the button OK.

Double-click the created shortcut with the left mouse button to start the installation of the program.

For the boxed version

If you purchased a boxed version of the program (installation is performed from the installation disk), you can also run the installation Kaspersky Internet Security 2016 without checking for incompatible software. To do this, do the following:

1. Paste installation disk Kaspersky Internet Security 2016 to CD drive .
2. Press the keyboard shortcut Win+R.

1. In the window Execute in the field Open enter: D:\install\setup.exe /pSKIPPRODUCTCHECK=1.

Where D- the letter that the CD drive uses. Depending on your OS settings, substitute the desired letter to the address.

1. Click on the button OK.

Installation Kaspersky Internet Security 2016 will run without checking for incompatible software.

When working with personal computer It may be necessary to remove Kaspersky antivirus or KIS 2014 from it, for example, in order to reinstall free antivirus Kaspersky Yandex version. To do this you need to completely uninstall old program. However, you need to know exactly how to remove Kaspersky (full or Yandex version, KIS 2014...) from your computer. To begin with, you can try to remove the antivirus using standard OS tools via account computer user, or go into safe mode and try to remove the antivirus from there. But it is not always possible to remove the product from the computer in this way. Often standard methods It is not possible to remove not only this, but also other versions of the antivirus, for example, Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 2014.

In such a situation, the user needs to quickly figure out how to remove Kaspersky Anti-Virus from the computer in order to install new, full-fledged OS protection.

Uninstalling an antivirus using the Uninstall Tool

In this program, you can remove all rooted software from your computer (including the registry). After launching the utility, you need to select from the list of programs, for example, KIS 2014, right-click on it and select “Uninstall”. Then, to remove the antivirus from the registry, you must select “Remove from registry.” Using this utility it is easy to remove KIS 2014 and Yandex version, but there are other removal methods.

Removal using KAVRemover

The algorithm for uninstalling Kaspersky remains the same:

1. you need to correctly remove Kaspersky Yandex antivirus or another selected version;
2. clean the system registry.

To remove Kaspersky, use the KAVRemover utility developed by Kaspersky Lab. Because when you delete using standard Windows tools via control panel Kaspersky antivirus is not completely or partially removed, it is better to use this utility right away.

To completely remove the antivirus, you must first download the kavremover.zip archive from the kaspersky.ru website and unpack it, or immediately download the executable file kavremover.exe.

Next, you should launch kavremover.exe by double-clicking on it with the mouse. Then you need to confirm License Agreement, by clicking the “I agree” button, in the Kaspersky Lab Products Remover window enter security code, which will appear in the picture above the input line. If the image is not clear, you can refresh it by clicking on the button located to the right of it.

In the “Detected” menu, you must select the Kaspersky program that is installed on your computer and click “Uninstall”. You can only remove several Kaspersky products one by one. Removal usually takes some time. You need to wait for a message to appear stating that the program uninstallation was completed successfully and click “OK”. Then you need to restart your computer.

Removing antivirus from your computer using Windows Safe Mode

Sometimes it is advised to switch to safe mode when using the KAVRemover utility Windows operation. To do this, during the reboot, press the F8 key several times in a row and select safe boot mode. In safe mode the user has full access to protected files and data in the registry. You need to run the file kavremover.exe, agree to the license clauses, click “OK”, enter the captcha, select that antivirus program, which needs to be eliminated, for example, KIS 2014 and click “Delete”. Next, you need to wait until the utility finishes cleaning the PC from the files of the program to be deleted. After this, Kaspersky antivirus will be removed from the computer.

Cleaning the registry from Kaspersky Yandex and KIS 2014

Sometimes you need to additionally clean the registry from KIS 2014 or Yandex version. Although the description of the utility states that it removes the product completely, some files still remain on the system. If you need to reinstall Kaspersky Yandex version, cleaning the registry is mandatory.

You need to launch the registry editor. To do this, go to the Start menu, Run, write the command Regedit in the window and go to the editor. In the editor you need to delete two registry branches:

You can also go to the “Edit” menu, select “Find”, and in the window that opens, look for files whose name is related to the name of the antivirus, for example, “kaspersky”. The name must be entered into the search bar and click “Find Next”. If the entry found relates to an antivirus, it must be deleted. To continue the search, press F3. The procedure is repeated until a zero result is shown.

After this, the antivirus will be completely removed from the user's computer.

If, when uninstalling Yandex or KIS 2014, or any other version of this antivirus program, the user encounters a problem that he cannot solve on his own, he can contact the Technical Support Service Kaspersky Labs. The My Kaspersky service is used for this. The request must describe the problem in detail, preferably providing screenshots and a utility report.