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Should I remove Quick PC Booster?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
52% remove it48% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Poor
What do people think about it?
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How common is it?
Global Rank #24,694
United States Rank #12,795
Reach 0.0072%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 9.23 days
272.37 days >
Average installed length: 143.11 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
4.0.7.4 1.41%
4.0.7.1 4.93%
4.0.6.7 8.45%
4.0.6.5 1.41%
4.0.5.9 11.27%
4.0.5.8 38.73%
4.0.5.5 3.52%
4.0.5.3 0.70%
4.0.5.1 0.70%
4.0.4.0 7.04%
4.0.2.7 21.83%

Quick PC Booster

What is Quick PC Booster?  (from Xportsoft Technologies)

The most versatile and furnished Registry Cleaner ever, Quick PC Care scans the Windows registry and provides the most suitable optimization to tune and manage various registry behaviors. To make backup copies of your important data so that it can be recovered easily in case of any data loss event. Manage Startup is an...  Read more

Overview

Quick PC Booster is a software program developed by Xportsoft Technologies. The most common release is 4.0.5.8, with over 98% of all installations currently using this version. During setup, the program creates a startup registration point in Windows in order to automatically start when any user boots the PC. 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). When installed, it will add a context menu handler to the Windows shell in order to provide quick access to the program. The primary executable is named quickpcbooster.exe. The setup package generally installs about 11 files and is usually about 17.83 MB (18,691,163 bytes). Relative to the overall usage of users who have this installed on their PCs, most are running Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 10. While about 98% of users of Quick PC Booster come from the United States, it is also popular in Canada and France.
  • Starts automatically

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.QuickPCBooster.com
Help link: www.QuickPCBooster.com/help/index.htm
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster\uninst.exe
Estimated size: 17.83 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Quick PC Booster

Program executable:quickpcbooster.exe
Name:Quick PC Booster
Path:C:\Program Files\quick pc booster\quickpcbooster.exe
MD5:170889cb645649e7988b1e041d299a31
Additional files:
  • QPCBPerformance.exe - Quick PC Booster Performance Monitor (PC Performance Monitor)
  • StartApps.exe - Boosting for Main Application (Starting up the applicaiton)
  • QuickPCBoosterTrays.exe - Quick PC Booster Tray Alert (REPAIR-PROTECT-REVITALIZE)
  • UpdatesDll.dll - Quick PC Booster Updates (Updates)
  • UpdatesDll_s.dll
  • QPCBoosterCMenu.dll - Quick PC Booster (Quick PC Booster Context Menu Module)
  • Uninstaller.exe - Uninstaller (Uninstall Quick PC Booster)
  • uninst.exe

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Context Menu Handler
  • QPCBoosterCMenu.dll added to Windows Explorer under the name 'QPCBCtxMenu' with a class of {7311F52E-D362-4061-A9CD-BDB57408A729}.
Scheduled Task
  • StartApps.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Quick PC Booster Updates' (runs weekly on Sundays at 10:22 AM).
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
  • StartApps.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Quick PC Booster startups.
Startup File (All Users Run)
  • StartApps.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'Quick PC Booster' which loads as "C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe" "C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBooster.exe -upd".

How do I remove Quick PC Booster?

You can uninstall Quick PC Booster from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  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 Quick PC Booster, 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 Quick PC Booster.
  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.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 51%
Win 8.1 1%
 
HOW IT STARTS
Automatically starts? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 52%
Keep it 48%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 54.93%
Windows 10 35.21%
Windows Vista 7.75%
Windows XP 2.11%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 41.55%
Windows 8.1 17.61%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 7.75%
Windows 10 Home 7.04%
Windows 7 Professional 6.34%
Windows 7 Ultimate 6.34%

Distribution by countryGeography

97.52% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 97.52%
  Canada 0.83%
  France 0.41%
  Netherlands 0.41%
  Iran 0.41%
  New Zealand 0.41%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 41.67%
Dell 25.93%
Toshiba 10.19%
ASUS 7.41%
Acer 6.48%
Samsung 1.85%
Intel 1.85%
GIGABYTE 1.85%
Sony 1.85%
Lenovo 0.93%
Common models
HP 15 Notebook PC 5.36%
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 3.57%
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 2.68%
VMware, Inc. VMware Virtu... 1.79%
Dell Inspiron 3521 1.79%
HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... 1.79%

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