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Remove PowerStrip
About PowerStrip
PowerStrip is an IE toolbar with a search field and link buttons. When you use a targeted merchant site, PowerStrip silently sets the afffiliate ID, so as to steal commission fees from your web shopping. It is installed by ActiveX drive-by downloads in pop-up advertisements.
Note: this has nothing to do with the video output tweaking utility also called PowerStrip.
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How to Remove PowerStrip ?
Follow these steps to remove it manually from your computer:
- Open the registry editor(click Start > Run, enter 'regedit'), and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the 'LSvr' and 'LTDMgr' entries on the right pane.
- Find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete the 'PowerStrip' entry.
- Delete the following registry keys :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PowerStrip HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\LSvr.Application
Exit registry editor.
- Open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories) and enter the following commands:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "\Program Files\PowerStrip\PowrStrp.dll"
- Restart the computer.
- Delete the 'PowerStrip' folder in Program Files, and the 'Presentia' folder inside Common Files (in Program Files).
- Open the Downloaded Program Files folder (inside the Windows folder), right-click the 'PowerStrip Setup' (PSOCX variant) or 'PSSetup Class' (PSSetup variant) entry and choose 'Remove'.
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