Wednesday, August 5, 2015

How to Remove Twinkle Star Adware from PC Completely

If you see loads of pop-up ads, deals and coupons from Twinkle Star flooding in your browser pages, it simply means that your PC is attacked by adware.

What is Twinkle Star?


Twinkle Star is a free program that claims to provide useful services to enhance your browsing experience. As a matter of fact, it is just an ad-supported program, namely adware, which constantly displays numerous pop-up ads on your screen no matter how you dislike the ads.

Twinkle Star adware

Twinkle Star can be downloaded from its official website, but it often comes into users' PC via other free programs downloaded from third party. When installed, you may be bombarded with lots of pop-up ads whether you are surfing the web or watching online videos. And most of the time, it exposes the system to bring up more other potentially harmful programs and viruses.

In brief, Twinkle Star is potentially unwanted. If you really want to stop irritating browser ads and redirects and to save the system away from further damages, you should take actions to get rid of Twinkle Star immediately.


How to remove Twinkle Star easily and thoroughly?


Method 1: Manually Remove Twinkle Star
Method 2: Automatically Remove Twinkle Star (Highly Recommended)
Optional Step: Fix Slow PC Performance by Using RegCure Pro

Method 1: Manually Remove Twinkle Star


1. Stop Twinkle Star running process in Windows Task Manager.

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc together to open Windows Task Manager, click Processes tab, find suspicious running process and click on it, then click the End Process button.

Windows Task Manager screenshot

2. Uninstall Twinkle Star in Control Panel.

Click Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find suspicious program and right click on it select Uninstall to uninstall the program.

Programs and Features screenshot

3. Remove Twinkle Star extension or add-ons from your browsers

Internet Explorer:
1) Start Internet Explorer and choose "Tools" >"Manage add-ons".
2) Choose "Toolbars and Extensions", then find and remove related programs.

3) Restart browser to complete the whole process.

Google Chrome:
1) Open Google Chrome, click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" icon in top right corner.
2) Select "Settings" > "Extensions", then find and delete add-ons.
3) Restart the browser to complete the whole process.

Mozilla Firefox:
1) Start Firefox and choose "Tools" > "Add-ons"> "Extensions".
2) Search for related items and remove them.
3) Restart Firefox to complete the process.

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4. Delete all the infection associated files

1) Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you're in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick "Show hidden files and folders" and non-tick "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" and then press "OK".


2) All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

5. Remove all the infection registry entries

Hit Win+R keys, type "regedit" in Run box, and then click "OK" to open Registry Editor


Delete them all:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain "Default_Page_URL"
HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[adware name]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]

6. Restart your computer to take effect.


Method 2: Automatically Remove Twinkle Star (Highly Recommended)


What can SpyHunter do for you?
  • Give your PC intuitive real-time protection.
  • Detect, remove and block spyware, rootkits, adware, keyloggers, cookies, trojans, worms and other types of malware.
  • Spyware HelpDesk generates free custom malware fixes specific to your PC
  • Allow you to restore backed up objects.

1. Click on the below button to free download SpyHunter on your PC.

SpyHunter download button

2. Click the "Run" button to enter the setup program and follow the installation steps until setup is complete.

the screenshot of security warning when opening file

3. When the installation is complete, click the "Finish" button to exit the installation.

the screenshot of final step of SpyHunter Setup

4. If SpyHunter does not automatically start, click the icon on your desktop or Start menu to open it.

the screenshot of SpyHunter shortcut on desktop             the screenshot of finding SpyHunter on Start Menu Bar

5. Allow the program to scan by clicking the "Scan Computer Now!" button. If you would like to have a quick scan on your PC, please check the "Quick Scan" box; otherwise, uncheck it.

the screenshot of SpyHunter's Satrt New Scan tab

6. The first scan will take some time, please be patient while waiting for the scanning result.

the screenshot of SpyHunter's scanning process

7. After the scan is done, you can see that all threats are successfully detected. Check the "Select All" box and then click the "Remove" button to fix all threats in your PC.

the screenshot of scan result of SpyHunter

Note: SpyHunter's free version is only for malware detection. To remove the malware threats on your PC, you will need to purchase SpyHunter's malware removal tool.


Optional Step: Fix Slow PC Performance by Using RegCure Pro

What can RegCure Pro do for you?
  • Fix system errors
  • Remove malware
  • Improve startup
  • Defrag memory
  • Clean up your PC

1. Click the below button to download RegCure Pro to your PC.

RegCure Pro download button

2. Click the "Yes" button to enter in installation process and then follow the instruction to install the program step by step.


3. When the program is successfully installed, double click on its desktop shortcut to open it. On the Overview tab, check all the scan settings and then click on the "Click to Start Scan" button to run a system scan on your computer.

the screenshot of RegCure Pro's Overview tab

4. The first system scan will take some time, please be patient. The screenshot of the system scan progress is shown below.

the screenshot of System Scan of RegCure Pro

5. When the system scan is done, click on "Fix All" button to completely remove all the performance problems in your computer.

the screenshot of scan result of RegCure Pro

Note: You can download and use RegCure Pro with confidence for it doesn't contain any additional items and conflict with your current used antivirus program.


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In Summery:

Twinkle Star is really a trouble maker. If you are unlucky to have this adware installed on your PC, you should take action to uninstall Twinkle Star from the infected PC immediately in case of further troubles.

Download SpyHunter to remove Twinkle Star quickly.

Download RegCure Pro to optimize your PC easily.

Good Luck and be safe online.

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