What is Clickpotato?

At first glance, Clickpotato is a very useful program that helps to save money and find the very advantageous offers in the Internet, but it’s not true. Clickpotato – it’s an extension for browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer), that comes bundled with free software without user consent. Clickpotato is a potentially unwanted program and can cause irreparable damage to your PC. After penetrating computer, Clickpotato begins to display ads, banners and other promotional products. This ad may pop up at any time during your browsing. Thus, Clickpotato promotes products of its partners, online stores and other. It changes your browser’s homepage and can also redirect the user to other sites and replace the search results. Among other things, Clickpotato collects your personal information, browsing history, and so on. It is done in order to pick up the goods and services which will interest you most. Clickpotato also increases the amount of traffic and significantly reduces the performance of your PC. If you find Clickpotato on your computer, remove it immediately!

How Clickpotato gets on your PC?

Adware, such as Clickpotato, comes to PC bundled with free software without the user’s consent. This happens because users rarely follow the installation process. This program can get on the computer along with the archivers, players and other freeware. Always follow the installation process to avoid infecting your computer. Also, read the user agreement, don’t click the “Next” button if you doubt that the program is safe. No need to click “I agree” if the additional software that you are offered is unknown and uncertain. Choose the Advanced installation type to see everything that the installer offers you. If your computer is already infected, then use our instructions to get rid of Clickpotato right now.

How to remove Clickpotato from your computer?

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

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You can try both of these products to remove Clickpotato

Or uninstall Clickpotato manually.

Step 1: Remove Clickpotato from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Clickpotato.
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 Clickpotato 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 Clickpotato, 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 Clickpotato 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 Clickpotato from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Clickpotato from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Clickpotato.
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 Clickpotato.
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 Clickpotato.
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 Clickpotato:

Remove following regitry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi