How do I remove Dell's Datasafe?

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could give me a series of steps that I could use to completely remove Dell's Datasafe from my SXPS 16 since I no longer have any use for it?

I have heard of people trying to use Window's add/remove to attempt to get rid of it but they still end up with it's functioning tray icon and what not.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

 

Have you tried calling Dell Support and asking them to walk you through the process? Give that a shot.

You can also install and run CCleaner. It has a registry clean option as well as a 'edit startup items' option. I would check the startup items and see if anything looks like the datasafe app. If it does, disable it.

 

I have also had problems uninstalling dell datasafe (it only partly uninstalled using window's uninstall function in the control panel, resulting in tons of error messages all the time). I even phoned dell's support and got the answer "I don't know how to uninstall Dell data safe, I would recommend you to factory reset your computer and keep dell data safe installed". Thank you for that, stupid *ss dell support.

However, I found my own way to uninstall dell datasafe. The trick is to ensure that no Dell programs are running while performing the uninstall

This is done e.g. by running CCleaner as BatBoy suggest, and then under the Tools/startup remove all dell applications from automatic startup when windows starts. Then reboot your computer - now no Dell programs should be running - and perform a normal uninstall of dell datasafe through window's control panel.

Voilà, no more sh*tty Dell data safe. At least this worked for me.