Step by Step Uninstall FastStone Image Viewer

Are you looking for effective ways to uninstall FastStone Image Viewer completely? Encounter difficulties when uninstalling the program? Can’t uninstall it via Windows Add or Remove Programs or its built-uninstaller? Don’t worry, please read the post carefully and follow the guide to completely uninstall it.

 

FastStone Image Viewer, developed by FastStone Soft, is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including  (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG)

Problems you may encounter when uninstalling FastStone Image Viewer

Receiving error message dialog box when uninstalling FastStone Image Viewer

Cannot find the program in the list of installed programs

Cannot find the Uninstall/Remove button when uninstalling the program

Usually, you can’t normally uninstall the program with Windows Add or Remove Programs due to improper installation or some configuration information of the program have been damaged or deleted. Of course, malware or virus invasion may lead to you can’t uninstall the program.

 

Manually uninstall FastStone Image Viewer

 

Step1. Terminate FastStone Image Viewer program in Task Manager.

· Right-click your Taskbar, then select Task Manager/Start Task Manager from the list.

·When the window shows up, find out the target program, then click End Process button for Windows 7/Vista/XP. Click End Task button for Windows 8/10 to terminate the program.

 

Step2. Uninstall FastStone Image Viewer via Windows built-in uninstaller.

 

·Click Start menu, and then select Control Panel.

·Click Uninstall a program link under Programs/Add or Remove Programs.

·Find out the program from the list of installed programs, click Uninstall/Remove to delete it.

 

Step3. Show hidden files, folders, and drives.

·Click Start > Control Panel >Appearance and Personalization > Folder Options >View

·Tick Show hidden files, folders, and drives, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

·Click Apply > OK button.

 

Step4. Delete FastStone Image Viewer associated files and folders.

C:\Program Files\FastStone Image Viewer

C:\Document and Settings\All Users\FastStone Image Viewer

C:\Users\Funla\AppData\Roaming\Easeware\FastStone Image Viewer

Step5. Delete the entries created by FastStone Image Viewer in Registry.

·Simultaneously press Windows + R keys on your keyboard.

· Type regedit into the run box and then click OK button to open Registry Editor.

·In the opened window, click Edit menu and then select Find/Find Next button.

·Type FastStone Image Viewer into the dialog box and then click Find Next button.

·Delete the following entries.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\FastStone Image Viewer_RASAPI32

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\FastStone Image Viewer_RASMANCS

Warning!!!

 

The above step is never recommended to computer novices or inexperienced computer users. Any wrong step may cause serious system problems. Therefore, for the sake of computer safety, it is strongly recommended using an automatic uninstall tool to completely clean all the registry entries created by FastStone Image Viewer.