Should I remove Play Now Radio?

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Remove Play Now Radio by Montiera Technologies

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100% Free and Legal HD radio music streamer. Enjoy Millions of Songs. Thousands of Artists. Just type in an artist - and your first station starts playing right away. Discover new music you're likely to like.

Upon installation, it defines an auto-start registry entry which allows the program run on each boot for the user which installed it. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). In the Google Chrome browser, it will add an extension. The main program executable is playnowradio.exe. Typically most users end up uninstalling this just after a few days. The software installer includes 13 files and is usually about 560.12 KB (573,559 bytes).

Displayed publisher: playnowradio

URL: www.playnowradio.com

Help link: cdn.montiera.com/apps/playnowradio/info/privacy.html

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\playnowradio\playnowradio\1.3.2.3

Uninstaller: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\playnowradio\playnowradio\1.3.2.3\playnowradio.exe /uninstl

Estimated size: 560.12 KB

1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
• Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
• Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
2. When you find the program Play Now Radio, click it, and then do one of the following:
• Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
• Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Play Now Radio.
4. If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.

1. Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
3. The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
2. To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
3. When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.

1. Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
3. When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
4. Restart Google Chrome.

OS VERSIONS Win 7 (SP1) 45% Win XP 0%

WHEN IT STARTS Auto-starting? Yes (Found in the run registry)

USER ACTIONS Uninstall it 73% Keep it 27%

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?

United States	12.62%
Italy	9.46%
United Kingdom	6.31%
India	5.36%
France	4.73%
Australia	4.42%
Netherlands	4.42%
Canada	3.79%
Israel	3.47%
Belgium	3.15%
Brazil	2.84%
Spain	2.84%
Germany	2.21%
Ireland	2.21%

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?

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