What is Shopping Optimizer?

Shopping Optimizer is yet another adware that makes web browsing disturbing. Being promoted by half-true promises, that Shopping Optimizer will grant the user coupons, best offers and discounts, the adware does what it says and shows the ads with different products. Nevertheless these offers cannot be trusted, as they are just a trigger for redirecting to promoting sites. The ads are so intrusive and numerous that avoiding landing on unwanted sites becomes problematic. As no one can tell what sites the adware may promote, it is safer to remove Shopping Optimizer at once.

How Shopping Optimizer gets on your PC?

There is a threatening tendency of collaboration between malware and safe software developers. Some software implementors agree to add Shopping Optimizer to their products’ setups. Users, who are unaware of this possibility, don’t expect to have malware installed alongside with the program they’ve downloaded. So, they don’t pay much attention to the EULA and installation settings, which often leads to malware infection.

How to remove Shopping Optimizer from your computer?

To uninstall Shopping Optimizer remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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You can try both of these products to remove Shopping Optimizer

Or uninstall Shopping Optimizer manually.

Step 1: Remove Shopping Optimizer from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Shopping Optimizer.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Shopping Optimizer and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Shopping Optimizer, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Shopping Optimizer and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Shopping Optimizer from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Shopping Optimizer from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Shopping Optimizer.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Shopping Optimizer.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Shopping Optimizer.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Shopping Optimizer:

Remove following registry entries:

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Remove following files:

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Remove following folders

%PROGRAMFILES%\Shopping Optimizer\